Puppet Jobs in the South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Puppet England / South West
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	152	155	119
Rank change year-on-year	+3	-36
Permanent jobs citing Puppet	83	91	145
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West	1.57%	1.74%	2.42%
As % of the Systems Management category	25.54%	28.44%	29.96%
Number of salaries quoted	72	81	119
Median salary	£50,000	£40,000	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+25.00%	-5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than	£33,500	£31,500	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£65,000	£65,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.26%

Puppet is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills South West
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	325	320	484
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West	6.13%	6.11%	8.08%
Number of salaries quoted	262	248	377
Median salary	£45,000	£40,000	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+12.50%	-5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£30,300	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£62,500	£75,000	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£46,000	£45,000	£44,750
% change year-on-year	+2.22%	+0.55%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South West citing Puppet as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Salary Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Puppet in the South West.

Salary trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the South West

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Puppet in the South West over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South West region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Bristol	-7	33	£57,500	+21.05%	5
Gloucestershire	+23	27	£47,500	+35.71%	2
Wiltshire	+11	11	£37,500	-	1
Cornwall	0	9	£55,000	-	3
Somerset	-30	3	£47,500	+18.75%	2
Dorset	-10	1	£40,000	-20.00%
Puppet England

Puppet
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT jobs citing Puppet also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the South West region with a requirement for Puppet.

1	120 (69.36%)	Linux
2	114 (65.90%)	Opscode Chef
3	111 (64.16%)	Ansible
4	97 (56.07%)	Python
5	88 (50.87%)	Continuous Integration
6	87 (50.29%)	DevOps
7	72 (41.62%)	MySQL
8	70 (40.46%)	Bash Shell
9	66 (38.15%)	Amazon AWS
10	65 (37.57%)	Agile Software Development
11	64 (36.99%)	Perl
12	56 (32.37%)	Jenkins
12	56 (32.37%)	OpenStack
13	54 (31.21%)	Docker
14	53 (30.64%)	Microsoft Azure

15	50 (28.90%)	Configuration Management
16	47 (27.17%)	Git (software)
17	46 (26.59%)	VMware
18	44 (25.43%)	NoSQL
19	42 (24.28%)	Java
19	42 (24.28%)	Tomcat
19	42 (24.28%)	Red Hat
20	39 (22.54%)	TDD
21	38 (21.97%)	PostgreSQL
21	38 (21.97%)	Oracle
21	38 (21.97%)	Windows
22	37 (21.39%)	Telecoms
23	34 (19.65%)	Finance
24	33 (19.08%)	OO
24	33 (19.08%)	WebLogic

Puppet
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	56 (32.37%)	OpenStack
2	42 (24.28%)	Tomcat
3	33 (19.08%)	WebLogic
3	33 (19.08%)	WebSphere
4	30 (17.34%)	JBoss
5	20 (11.56%)	Apache Spark
5	20 (11.56%)	Elasticsearch
6	19 (10.98%)	Apache
7	15 (8.67%)	Apache Solr
7	15 (8.67%)	Jetty
8	9 (5.20%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	6 (3.47%)	nginx
10	5 (2.89%)	CloudStack
10	5 (2.89%)	IIS
11	3 (1.73%)	Confluence
12	1 (0.58%)	Cloud Foundry

Applications
1	2 (1.16%)	HipChat
1	2 (1.16%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	26 (15.03%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	66 (38.15%)	Amazon AWS
2	53 (30.64%)	Microsoft Azure
3	14 (8.09%)	OpenShift
4	9 (5.20%)	PaaS
5	8 (4.62%)	GitHub
6	6 (3.47%)	IaaS
7	2 (1.16%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	2 (1.16%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	2 (1.16%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.58%)	Amazon S3
8	1 (0.58%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.58%)	Google App Engine
8	1 (0.58%)	Google Compute Engine

Communications & Networking
1	11 (6.36%)	Internet
2	9 (5.20%)	Cisco IOS
2	9 (5.20%)	Junos
3	7 (4.05%)	Firewall
4	4 (2.31%)	HTTP
4	4 (2.31%)	TCP/IP
5	3 (1.73%)	Cisco ASA
5	3 (1.73%)	Intrusion Detection
5	3 (1.73%)	SNMP
6	1 (0.58%)	DHCP
6	1 (0.58%)	DNS
6	1 (0.58%)	FCoE
6	1 (0.58%)	Network Security

Database & Business Intelligence
1	72 (41.62%)	MySQL
2	44 (25.43%)	NoSQL
3	38 (21.97%)	PostgreSQL
4	25 (14.45%)	MongoDB
5	23 (13.29%)	Hadoop
6	22 (12.72%)	SQL Server
7	19 (10.98%)	Big Data
7	19 (10.98%)	Riak
8	18 (10.40%)	Redis
9	17 (9.83%)	Apache Cassandra
10	15 (8.67%)	Couchbase
11	11 (6.36%)	MariaDB
12	5 (2.89%)	Apache Accumulo
13	2 (1.16%)	CouchDB
13	2 (1.16%)	Infinispan
13	2 (1.16%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	1 (0.58%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	1 (0.58%)	BigQuery
14	1 (0.58%)	Relational Database

Development Applications
1	56 (32.37%)	Jenkins
2	47 (27.17%)	Git (software)
3	20 (11.56%)	TeamCity
4	13 (7.51%)	Atlassian Bamboo
4	13 (7.51%)	JIRA
4	13 (7.51%)	MSTest
4	13 (7.51%)	NUnit
4	13 (7.51%)	Subversion
5	11 (6.36%)	Vagrant
6	8 (4.62%)	Bitbucket
7	6 (3.47%)	Maven
8	5 (2.89%)	Ant
8	5 (2.89%)	JMeter
8	5 (2.89%)	Selenium
8	5 (2.89%)	WATIR
9	2 (1.16%)	Eclipse
9	2 (1.16%)	GitLab
9	2 (1.16%)	Travis CI
10	1 (0.58%)	SonarQube
10	1 (0.58%)	Sonatype Nexus

General
1	37 (21.39%)	Telecoms
2	34 (19.65%)	Finance
3	27 (15.61%)	Marketing
4	26 (15.03%)	Electronics
4	26 (15.03%)	Manufacturing
5	11 (6.36%)	Retail
6	9 (5.20%)	Banking
7	1 (0.58%)	Advertising
7	1 (0.58%)	Games

Job Titles
1	61 (35.26%)	DevOps Engineer
2	46 (26.59%)	Linux Engineer
3	40 (23.12%)	Administrator
4	37 (21.39%)	Developer
4	37 (21.39%)	Systems Administrator
5	36 (20.81%)	Systems Engineer
6	35 (20.23%)	Linux Systems Engineer
7	31 (17.92%)	Java Developer
8	29 (16.76%)	Linux Administrator
9	27 (15.61%)	Linux Systems Administrator
10	20 (11.56%)	Senior Developer
11	17 (9.83%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
11	17 (9.83%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
12	16 (9.25%)	DevOps Systems Engineer
12	16 (9.25%)	Senior Java Developer
13	15 (8.67%)	DevOps Administrator
14	13 (7.51%)	Full Stack Developer
15	11 (6.36%)	Analyst
16	10 (5.78%)	AWS Engineer
17	9 (5.20%)	Senior Full Stack Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	18 (10.40%)	.NET
2	15 (8.67%)	AngularJS
2	15 (8.67%)	Elastic Stack
2	15 (8.67%)	Lucene
2	15 (8.67%)	React
3	12 (6.94%)	LAMP
4	5 (2.89%)	LAPP Stack
4	5 (2.89%)	OpenVZ
4	5 (2.89%)	Spring Boot
5	4 (2.31%)	LEMP Stack
5	4 (2.31%)	SOAP
6	2 (1.16%)	ActiveMQ
6	2 (1.16%)	Hibernate
6	2 (1.16%)	HornetQ
6	2 (1.16%)	jQuery
6	2 (1.16%)	Kafka
6	2 (1.16%)	REST
6	2 (1.16%)	Spring
6	2 (1.16%)	Web Services
7	1 (0.58%)	Spring Integration

Miscellaneous
1	9 (5.20%)	Private Cloud
2	8 (4.62%)	Analytical Skills
3	6 (3.47%)	Enterprise Software
4	5 (2.89%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
5	4 (2.31%)	Management Information System
6	2 (1.16%)	Clustering
6	2 (1.16%)	Fintech
6	2 (1.16%)	Linux Command Line
7	1 (0.58%)	Computer Science
7	1 (0.58%)	Cyber Defence
7	1 (0.58%)	Internet of Things
7	1 (0.58%)	Mobile App
7	1 (0.58%)	Replication
7	1 (0.58%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	120 (69.36%)	Linux
2	38 (21.97%)	Windows
3	27 (15.61%)	Ubuntu
4	26 (15.03%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	25 (14.45%)	CentOS
6	20 (11.56%)	Unix
7	15 (8.67%)	Windows Server
8	10 (5.78%)	Android
8	10 (5.78%)	Apple iOS
9	6 (3.47%)	Debian
10	5 (2.89%)	Windows Server 2003
10	5 (2.89%)	Windows Server 2008
10	5 (2.89%)	Windows Server 2012
11	2 (1.16%)	Solaris
12	1 (0.58%)	Fedora
12	1 (0.58%)	Oracle Linux
12	1 (0.58%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	88 (50.87%)	Continuous Integration
2	87 (50.29%)	DevOps
3	65 (37.57%)	Agile Software Development
4	50 (28.90%)	Configuration Management
5	39 (22.54%)	TDD
6	33 (19.08%)	OO
7	29 (16.76%)	Scrum
8	28 (16.18%)	Business Intelligence
9	27 (15.61%)	Digital Marketing
10	26 (15.03%)	Programme Management
11	25 (14.45%)	SDLC
12	23 (13.29%)	DSDM
12	23 (13.29%)	RUP
13	20 (11.56%)	Mentoring
14	18 (10.40%)	Kanban
15	17 (9.83%)	Web Development
16	16 (9.25%)	Coaching
16	16 (9.25%)	UML
17	15 (8.67%)	Concurrent Programming
17	15 (8.67%)	Multithreading

Programming Languages
1	97 (56.07%)	Python
2	70 (40.46%)	Bash Shell
3	64 (36.99%)	Perl
4	42 (24.28%)	Java
5	28 (16.18%)	Ruby
6	24 (13.87%)	SQL
7	23 (13.29%)	PHP
8	15 (8.67%)	PowerShell
9	14 (8.09%)	C#
10	10 (5.78%)	C
11	8 (4.62%)	Shell Script
12	7 (4.05%)	Go
13	6 (3.47%)	VB.NET
14	4 (2.31%)	JavaScript
15	2 (1.16%)	Groovy
15	2 (1.16%)	Jython
16	1 (0.58%)	AWK
16	1 (0.58%)	C++
16	1 (0.58%)	Korn
16	1 (0.58%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	15 (8.67%)	Security Cleared
2	10 (5.78%)	Degree
3	6 (3.47%)	DV Cleared
4	5 (2.89%)	ISTQB
4	5 (2.89%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	4 (2.31%)	AWS Certification
5	4 (2.31%)	CCNA
5	4 (2.31%)	Cisco Certification
5	4 (2.31%)	SC Cleared
6	3 (1.73%)	RHCE
6	3 (1.73%)	RHCSA
7	1 (0.58%)	CISSP
7	1 (0.58%)	CompTIA Security+
7	1 (0.58%)	GIAC
7	1 (0.58%)	Linux+ Certification
7	1 (0.58%)	Microsoft Certification
7	1 (0.58%)	Network+ Certification
7	1 (0.58%)	SANS
7	1 (0.58%)	Security+ Certification
7	1 (0.58%)	SSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	3 (1.73%)	PCI DSS
2	2 (1.16%)	Data Quality
2	2 (1.16%)	SLA

System Software
1	54 (31.21%)	Docker
2	20 (11.56%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	14 (8.09%)	Dovecot
3	14 (8.09%)	Postfix
4	12 (6.94%)	vSphere
5	8 (4.62%)	Xen
6	7 (4.05%)	Active Directory
7	6 (3.47%)	KVM
8	5 (2.89%)	Hyper-V
8	5 (2.89%)	XenServer
9	4 (2.31%)	Ceph
9	4 (2.31%)	iptables
10	2 (1.16%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	2 (1.16%)	Corosync
10	2 (1.16%)	Gluster
11	1 (0.58%)	etcd
11	1 (0.58%)	flannel
11	1 (0.58%)	NFS
11	1 (0.58%)	Samba
11	1 (0.58%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	114 (65.90%)	Opscode Chef
2	111 (64.16%)	Ansible
3	26 (15.03%)	Salt
4	17 (9.83%)	Kibana
5	15 (8.67%)	logstash
6	11 (6.36%)	Nagios
7	10 (5.78%)	Terraform
8	9 (5.20%)	Cobbler
8	9 (5.20%)	Juju
8	9 (5.20%)	Tivoli
9	8 (4.62%)	Kubernetes
10	5 (2.89%)	Check_MK
10	5 (2.89%)	Grafana
10	5 (2.89%)	Pingdom
11	4 (2.31%)	Galera Cluster
12	3 (1.73%)	Graylog
12	3 (1.73%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
12	3 (1.73%)	ZABBIX
13	2 (1.16%)	Ganeti
13	2 (1.16%)	Nessus

Vendors
1	46 (26.59%)	VMware
2	42 (24.28%)	Red Hat
3	38 (21.97%)	Oracle
4	26 (15.03%)	SAP
5	16 (9.25%)	Cisco
6	10 (5.78%)	Microsoft
7	7 (4.05%)	SaltStack
8	5 (2.89%)	Atlassian
8	5 (2.89%)	CA Agile Central
8	5 (2.89%)	EnterpriseDB
8	5 (2.89%)	Infobright
8	5 (2.89%)	New Relic
8	5 (2.89%)	PagerDuty
8	5 (2.89%)	Rackspace
9	4 (2.31%)	Scality
10	3 (1.73%)	HP
10	3 (1.73%)	Qualys
10	3 (1.73%)	Splunk
11	2 (1.16%)	Juniper
11	2 (1.16%)	McAfee