Puppet Contracts with Work from Home Options

Puppet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 283 266
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 -31
Contract jobs citing Puppet 68 190 430
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.75% 0.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.17% 4.58% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 144 346
10th Percentile £463 £450 £436
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £667
90th Percentile £720 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £577
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.99% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.09% +37.27% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,148 7,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.85% 16.47% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 3,067 5,286
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £515 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.04% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 76 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.36 £15.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.13 £64.19
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Puppet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Puppet trend for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet.

Puppet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Puppet over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Puppet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet.

Puppet hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) Confluence
1 5 (7.35%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.94%) AWS
2 24 (35.29%) Azure
3 10 (14.71%) GitHub
4 9 (13.24%) GCP
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (10.29%) Serverless
6 6 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.88%) Datadog
8 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.88%) Route 53
9 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.41%) Kong
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.94%) Apigee
10 2 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) Firewall
2 7 (10.29%) VLAN
3 6 (8.82%) DNS
4 5 (7.35%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.88%) VPN
6 3 (4.41%) HTTP
7 2 (2.94%) DHCP
7 2 (2.94%) DSL
7 2 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.94%) SAN
7 2 (2.94%) SSL
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.47%) DMZ
8 1 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.47%) IPv4
8 1 (1.47%) LAN
8 1 (1.47%) Network Security
8 1 (1.47%) SNA
8 1 (1.47%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) MySQL
2 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.94%) Big Data
6 2 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.06%) Git
3 13 (19.12%) JIRA
4 12 (17.65%) GitLab
5 6 (8.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (5.88%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.88%) Travis CI
7 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.94%) Maven
8 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.47%) AppScan
9 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.47%) Darcs
9 1 (1.47%) Gradle
9 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.47%) Selenium
9 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.47%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.47%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Electronics
8 1 (1.47%) French Language
8 1 (1.47%) Games
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Military
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) Senior
3 5 (7.35%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (7.35%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Unix Specialist
4 4 (5.88%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 3 (4.41%) Architect
5 3 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Data Storage Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) DBA
5 3 (4.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Developer
6 2 (2.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (2.94%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.29%) YAML
3 6 (8.82%) JSON
3 6 (8.82%) XML
4 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 4 (5.88%) REST
6 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 3 (4.41%) SOAP
7 2 (2.94%) .NET
7 2 (2.94%) Kafka
7 2 (2.94%) React
8 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.47%) CSS
8 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.47%) HTML
8 1 (1.47%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.47%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.47%) OAuth
8 1 (1.47%) React Native
8 1 (1.47%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.82%) Replication
3 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) CBDC
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.47%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) PKI
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (52.94%) Linux
2 24 (35.29%) Windows
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.82%) Unix
5 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.94%) CentOS
8 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) DevOps
2 28 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 28 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (39.71%) Configuration Management
4 20 (29.41%) Agile
5 16 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
7 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.71%) Scrum
10 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (10.29%) Change Management
11 7 (10.29%) High Availability
12 6 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (8.82%) ITIL
12 6 (8.82%) ITSM
12 6 (8.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) Python
2 24 (35.29%) Bash
3 21 (30.88%) PowerShell
4 13 (19.12%) Ruby
5 9 (13.24%) Java
6 8 (11.76%) Go
6 8 (11.76%) Perl
7 7 (10.29%) C++
8 4 (5.88%) C
9 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.41%) SQL
9 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.94%) Bicep
10 2 (2.94%) C#
10 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.47%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.47%) Groovy
11 1 (1.47%) Korn
11 1 (1.47%) PHP
11 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (35.29%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.88%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.41%) Firmware
4 3 (4.41%) vCloud
4 3 (4.41%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) Postfix
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (86.76%) Ansible
2 44 (64.71%) Terraform
3 38 (55.88%) Progress Chef
4 22 (32.35%) Kubernetes
5 11 (16.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (10.29%) Grafana
7 6 (8.82%) NetBackup
8 5 (7.35%) Kibana
8 5 (7.35%) logstash
9 4 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (5.88%) Nagios
9 4 (5.88%) Packer
9 4 (5.88%) Salt
10 3 (4.41%) Autotask
10 3 (4.41%) Consul
10 3 (4.41%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (2.94%) CFEngine
11 2 (2.94%) PowerBroker
12 1 (1.47%) Graylog
12 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Splunk
2 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) VMware
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.82%) Veritas
5 4 (5.88%) BMC
5 4 (5.88%) Dell
5 4 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (5.88%) Qualys
5 4 (5.88%) Remedy
5 4 (5.88%) TOWER Software
6 3 (4.41%) Arista
6 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.41%) Google
6 3 (4.41%) New Relic
6 3 (4.41%) SaltStack
6 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.41%) Sybase
7 2 (2.94%) Brocade
8 1 (1.47%) SAP