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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 291 255
Rank change year-on-year +19 -36 -23
Contract jobs citing Puppet 70 180 449
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.74% 1.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.27% 4.61% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 133 362
10th Percentile £460 £458 £415
25th Percentile £500 £513 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +7.48% +11.65%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £668
90th Percentile £746 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

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 1,640 3,906 7,131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.27% 16.12% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 2,892 5,328
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.33% +7.62%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.56%

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 3 June 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 8 (11.43%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) nginx
4 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.43%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) AWS
2 20 (28.57%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) GCP
4 7 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (10.00%) GitHub
4 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.71%) Datadog
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.29%) Kong
6 3 (4.29%) Route 53
6 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.86%) Apigee
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) Firewall
2 7 (10.00%) VLAN
3 6 (8.57%) DNS
4 5 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.29%) HTTP
5 3 (4.29%) VPN
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.86%) DHCP
6 2 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.86%) Internet
6 2 (2.86%) SAN
6 2 (2.86%) SSL
7 1 (1.43%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.43%) DMZ
7 1 (1.43%) DSL
7 1 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.43%) IPv4
7 1 (1.43%) Network Security
7 1 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.43%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (10.00%) MySQL
3 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.29%) DataStax
5 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.86%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) Git
3 14 (20.00%) JIRA
4 11 (15.71%) GitLab
5 6 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (8.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.71%) Travis CI
7 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.86%) Maven
9 1 (1.43%) AppScan
9 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.43%) Darcs
9 1 (1.43%) Gradle
9 1 (1.43%) Hudson
9 1 (1.43%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.43%) Selenium
9 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.43%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.86%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) French Language
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Military
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (11.43%) Senior
3 6 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Unix Specialist
5 4 (5.71%) Vulnerability Specialist
6 3 (4.29%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) DBA
6 3 (4.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Lead
6 3 (4.29%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Administrator
7 2 (2.86%) Developer
7 2 (2.86%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.86%) YAML
3 6 (8.57%) JSON
3 6 (8.57%) XML
4 5 (7.14%) Kafka
4 5 (7.14%) Node.js
5 4 (5.71%) REST
6 3 (4.29%) RESTful
6 3 (4.29%) SOAP
7 2 (2.86%) .NET
7 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.86%) React
8 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.43%) CSS
8 1 (1.43%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.43%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.43%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.43%) OAuth
8 1 (1.43%) React Native
8 1 (1.43%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Replication
2 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) CBDC
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.43%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (51.43%) Linux
2 23 (32.86%) Windows
3 8 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.57%) Unix
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.43%) CentOS
6 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) DevOps
2 27 (38.57%) Configuration Management
3 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 25 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (32.86%) Agile
5 18 (25.71%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (14.29%) Scrum
10 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (10.00%) High Availability
12 6 (8.57%) Change Management
12 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.57%) ITIL
12 6 (8.57%) Kanban
12 6 (8.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (58.57%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) Bash
2 25 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 10 (14.29%) Ruby
5 9 (12.86%) Go
6 7 (10.00%) C++
6 7 (10.00%) Perl
7 6 (8.57%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.71%) C
8 4 (5.71%) Groovy
9 3 (4.29%) SQL
10 2 (2.86%) Bicep
10 2 (2.86%) C#
10 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.43%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
11 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (1.43%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.29%) Firmware
5 3 (4.29%) vCloud
5 3 (4.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.29%) vSphere
6 1 (1.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (87.14%) Ansible
2 41 (58.57%) Terraform
3 36 (51.43%) Progress Chef
4 27 (38.57%) Kubernetes
5 11 (15.71%) Prometheus
6 7 (10.00%) Grafana
7 6 (8.57%) Kibana
7 6 (8.57%) logstash
7 6 (8.57%) NetBackup
7 6 (8.57%) Salt
8 4 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (5.71%) Nagios
9 3 (4.29%) Autotask
9 3 (4.29%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.43%) Consul
10 1 (1.43%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.43%) Istio
10 1 (1.43%) Packer
10 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) VMware
2 10 (14.29%) Splunk
3 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.57%) SaltStack
4 6 (8.57%) Veritas
5 4 (5.71%) BMC
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 4 (5.71%) Qualys
5 4 (5.71%) Remedy
6 3 (4.29%) Arista
6 3 (4.29%) Confluent
6 3 (4.29%) Dell
6 3 (4.29%) F5
6 3 (4.29%) Google
6 3 (4.29%) New Relic
6 3 (4.29%) Sybase
6 3 (4.29%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow