Puppet Contracts in the Midlands

Puppet
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 148 193
Rank change year-on-year +27 +45 -47
Contract jobs citing Puppet 12 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.43% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.92% 2.38% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £565 £507 £450
25th Percentile £576 £539 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +7.73% +23.60%
75th Percentile £585 £646 £594
90th Percentile £614 £679 £675
England median daily rate £573 £619 £576
% change year-on-year -7.47% +7.42% +11.20%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 306 420 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.96% 12.84% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 285 351
10th Percentile £201 £303 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +7.53% +13.41%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £550
90th Percentile £645 £700 £631
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 19
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £12.83
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.57 £33.37 £21.13
90th Percentile £63.00 £55.70 £23.90
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the Midlands

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the Midlands

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Midlands +17 12 £582 -1.77% 5
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (91.67%) Configuration Management
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (91.67%) Validation
2 11 (91.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
5 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Virtual Machines
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (91.67%) Salt
3 1 (8.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Red Hat
3 9 (75.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (8.33%) Guidewire
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft