Puppet Contracts in the Thames Valley

Puppet
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 141 159
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -21
Contract jobs citing Puppet 2 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.076% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% 2.70% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £427 £408
25th Percentile £525 £506 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% +2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £456
90th Percentile - £693 £468
South East median daily rate £582 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -2.18% +3.48% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 333 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.36% 11.63% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 245 264
10th Percentile £213 £303 £236
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £733 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile £20.20 £45.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £26.50 £58.91 £12.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +62.87% +5.70%
75th Percentile £34.69 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £43.13 £81.98 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -43.05%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire -11 1 £550 -18.52% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) CFEngine
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google