Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 354 288
Rank change year-on-year -22 -66 -54
Contract jobs citing Puppet 167 324 671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.67% 0.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.82% 4.33% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 245 515
10th Percentile £443 £463 £434
25th Percentile £482 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.51% +12.67%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £753 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £579
% change year-on-year -4.17% +3.72% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £67.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -37.09% - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,372 7,479 11,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 15.52% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 5,432 8,204
10th Percentile £258 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £41.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +17 101 £600 -4.00% 45
North of England +40 41 £525 -6.46% 6
Yorkshire +41 38 £525 +5.00% 2
South East +1 8 £575 -8.00% 13
South West -28 8 £613 -3.92% 23
North West +6 3 £582 -10.46% 3
East of England +4 2 £675 +29.81% 6
Midlands +18 1 £638 +7.59% 6
West Midlands +17 1 £638 +7.59% 5
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (8.38%) Confluence
2 13 (7.78%) Apache
3 6 (3.59%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.59%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.40%) IIS
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) nginx
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.20%) Traefik
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 83 (49.70%) AWS
2 59 (35.33%) Azure
3 37 (22.16%) GCP
4 27 (16.17%) GitHub
5 15 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.59%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.39%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.39%) Kong
10 8 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.19%) Route 53
11 7 (4.19%) Serverless
12 6 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.59%) Apigee
12 6 (3.59%) Cloudflare
12 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.57%) TCP/IP
2 22 (13.17%) DNS
3 20 (11.98%) HTTP
3 20 (11.98%) VLAN
4 18 (10.78%) Firewall
5 14 (8.38%) SSL
6 12 (7.19%) VPN
7 6 (3.59%) Internet
7 6 (3.59%) SMTP
8 5 (2.99%) IPv4
9 4 (2.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.40%) DHCP
9 4 (2.40%) Network Security
9 4 (2.40%) OSPF
10 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.80%) DMZ
10 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.60%) BGP
11 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.78%) Big Data
2 13 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.78%) MySQL
3 11 (6.59%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.39%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (4.19%) Sybase ASE
7 5 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.80%) Redis
10 2 (1.20%) DataStax
10 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 76 (45.51%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.35%) Git
3 29 (17.37%) GitLab
4 22 (13.17%) JIRA
5 12 (7.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (6.59%) CircleCI
6 11 (6.59%) Travis CI
7 8 (4.79%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.99%) AppScan
8 5 (2.99%) Burp Suite
8 5 (2.99%) Selenium
8 5 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.40%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.40%) Subversion
10 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.80%) Maven
10 3 (1.80%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 61 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Finance
3 33 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.18%) Banking
4 17 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.19%) Retail
6 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.59%) Marketing
7 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.40%) Electronics
8 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) German Language
10 1 (0.60%) Military
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (25.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (11.98%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (9.58%) Architect
3 16 (9.58%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (7.19%) Cloud Architect
4 12 (7.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.59%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.59%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (6.59%) Principal Architect
5 11 (6.59%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.59%) Senior
5 11 (6.59%) Server Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Site Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Lead
9 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.97%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.19%) JSON
3 9 (5.39%) XML
3 9 (5.39%) YAML
4 7 (4.19%) Kafka
5 6 (3.59%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.40%) .NET
6 4 (2.40%) CSS
6 4 (2.40%) HTML
7 3 (1.80%) LDAP
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.20%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.20%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) React
8 2 (1.20%) REST
9 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.60%) React Native
9 1 (0.60%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.58%) Data Centre
1 16 (9.58%) Replication
2 14 (8.38%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.19%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.40%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) PKI
9 2 (1.20%) CBDC
9 2 (1.20%) Clustering
9 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (61.68%) Linux
2 43 (25.75%) Windows
3 21 (12.57%) Unix
4 14 (8.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.99%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.19%) CentOS
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.90%) DevOps
2 75 (44.91%) CI/CD
3 61 (36.53%) Agile
4 54 (32.34%) Configuration Management
5 52 (31.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (29.94%) Containerisation
7 41 (24.55%) Scrum
8 32 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (16.17%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (15.57%) Test Automation
11 23 (13.77%) SDLC
12 21 (12.57%) ITIL
13 18 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (10.78%) Task Automation
14 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (10.18%) Project Management
15 16 (9.58%) Change Management
16 15 (8.98%) DevSecOps
16 15 (8.98%) Kanban
17 14 (8.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 90 (53.89%) Python
2 62 (37.13%) PowerShell
3 47 (28.14%) Bash
4 15 (8.98%) Java
4 15 (8.98%) Ruby
4 15 (8.98%) Shell Script
5 14 (8.38%) Perl
6 12 (7.19%) Go
7 9 (5.39%) C++
8 5 (2.99%) C
8 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.40%) Bicep
9 4 (2.40%) Groovy
9 4 (2.40%) PHP
10 3 (1.80%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.80%) C#
10 3 (1.80%) SQL
11 2 (1.20%) Scala
11 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 47 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.97%) DV Cleared
4 19 (11.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.99%) Degree
6 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) RHCE
7 2 (1.20%) SANS
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) GIAC
8 1 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.60%) LPIC
8 1 (0.60%) OCP
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.58%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) NCSC
2 2 (1.20%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (41.32%) Docker
2 8 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.99%) Firmware
5 2 (1.20%) NFS
6 1 (0.60%) Ceph
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (81.44%) Ansible
2 85 (50.90%) Terraform
3 73 (43.71%) Progress Chef
4 67 (40.12%) Kubernetes
5 26 (15.57%) Prometheus
6 20 (11.98%) Grafana
7 15 (8.98%) NetBackup
8 12 (7.19%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (6.59%) Kibana
9 11 (6.59%) logstash
10 8 (4.79%) Nagios
10 8 (4.79%) Packer
11 7 (4.19%) Graylog
12 6 (3.59%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (3.59%) Rancher
13 5 (2.99%) HP Fortify
13 5 (2.99%) Nessus
13 5 (2.99%) Salt
13 5 (2.99%) WebInspect
14 4 (2.40%) Consul
Vendors
1 31 (18.56%) Splunk
2 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.98%) Veritas
4 13 (7.78%) F5
5 12 (7.19%) VMware
6 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.79%) Sybase
7 7 (4.19%) Dell
8 6 (3.59%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.59%) Oracle
8 6 (3.59%) SAP
9 5 (2.99%) Centrify
9 5 (2.99%) Checkmarx
9 5 (2.99%) New Relic
9 5 (2.99%) Veracode
10 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.40%) Qualys
10 4 (2.40%) SaltStack