Puppet Contracts

Puppet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 341 271
Rank change year-on-year -20 -70 -25
Contract jobs citing Puppet 210 326 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.65% 1.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.00% 4.39% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 237 636
10th Percentile £407 £458 £410
25th Percentile £463 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £587 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -2.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £688
90th Percentile £663 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% +2.27% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 0
10th Percentile - £59.67 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £74.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -79.49% - -
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - £85.67 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -79.49% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,252 7,423 13,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 14.89% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,540 5,199 9,643
10th Percentile £311 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £708 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 179 169
10th Percentile £19.97 £18.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.18 £35.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +130.03% +3.96%
75th Percentile £64.50 £75.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.78 £78.75 £74.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £47.83 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.94% +122.47% +7.50%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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
England -21 180 £557 -5.59% 65
London +37 101 £550 -10.57% 29
Work from Home +49 88 £550 -8.33% 30
UK excluding London -30 78 £570 +1.33% 41
North of England +26 27 £622 +12.07% 15
Yorkshire +34 23 £622 +24.40% 5
South East +8 23 £573 +1.78% 5
South West 0 21 £570 -8.80% 8
West Midlands +22 16 £582 +5.82% 4
Midlands +20 16 £582 +5.82% 5
Scotland +16 9 £382 -30.55% 3
North West -2 4 £600 +7.14% 7

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (13.81%) Confluence
2 10 (4.76%) Apache
3 6 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.43%) Camunda
4 3 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.95%) JBoss
5 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (36.67%) AWS
2 69 (32.86%) Azure
3 49 (23.33%) GitHub
4 44 (20.95%) GCP
5 16 (7.62%) Datadog
6 15 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 14 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.24%) IaaS
9 10 (4.76%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.29%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.29%) Kong
11 8 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.81%) Apigee
12 6 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.86%) Cloudflare
12 6 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.00%) Firewall
2 21 (10.00%) DNS
3 14 (6.67%) VPN
4 13 (6.19%) HTTP
4 13 (6.19%) SSL
4 13 (6.19%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.29%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (3.33%) Internet
7 6 (2.86%) OSPF
7 6 (2.86%) SAN
7 6 (2.86%) SMTP
8 5 (2.38%) DHCP
9 4 (1.90%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.90%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.90%) IPv4
9 4 (1.90%) VLAN
10 3 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.95%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (8.10%) MySQL
4 9 (4.29%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.43%) Big Data
7 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.43%) DataStax
7 3 (1.43%) Metadata
7 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 96 (45.71%) Jenkins
2 56 (26.67%) Git
3 48 (22.86%) GitLab
4 41 (19.52%) JIRA
5 19 (9.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (6.19%) CircleCI
7 11 (5.24%) Artifactory
8 10 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (4.76%) Travis CI
9 9 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 9 (4.29%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.86%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.38%) Ant
11 5 (2.38%) Burp Suite
11 5 (2.38%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.90%) AppScan
12 4 (1.90%) Maven
13 3 (1.43%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.43%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 51 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.19%) Finance
3 25 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.57%) Banking
5 11 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.81%) Retail
7 7 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.48%) French Language
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (26.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (12.38%) Automation Engineer
3 13 (6.19%) Administrator
3 13 (6.19%) Lead
4 12 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (5.24%) Architect
5 11 (5.24%) Network Engineer
5 11 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (5.24%) Security Engineer
5 11 (5.24%) Senior
6 10 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (4.29%) Site Engineer
8 8 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (2.86%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.71%) YAML
2 24 (11.43%) Kafka
3 22 (10.48%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.29%) JDBC
4 9 (4.29%) JMS
4 9 (4.29%) JSON
4 9 (4.29%) XML
5 7 (3.33%) FastAPI
5 7 (3.33%) Middleware
5 7 (3.33%) Node.js
6 6 (2.86%) REST
7 5 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.43%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.43%) CSS
8 3 (1.43%) CSS3
8 3 (1.43%) HTML
8 3 (1.43%) HTML5
8 3 (1.43%) React
8 3 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.33%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.90%) Video on Demand
9 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.95%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.48%) Life Science
11 1 (0.48%) NHS
11 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 102 (48.57%) Linux
2 56 (26.67%) Windows
3 34 (16.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (13.81%) Unix
5 7 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.38%) CentOS
7 3 (1.43%) Solaris
7 3 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) AIX
8 1 (0.48%) Debian
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (60.48%) DevOps
2 85 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (39.05%) CI/CD
4 72 (34.29%) Configuration Management
5 70 (33.33%) Agile
6 45 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 42 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.62%) Test Automation
9 33 (15.71%) Scrum
10 31 (14.76%) Continuous Integration
11 30 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (11.90%) Task Automation
13 24 (11.43%) DevSecOps
14 23 (10.95%) Project Management
15 21 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 17 (8.10%) Continuous Deployment
17 17 (8.10%) Validation
18 16 (7.62%) Continuous Delivery
18 16 (7.62%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 92 (43.81%) Python
2 71 (33.81%) PowerShell
3 53 (25.24%) Bash
4 22 (10.48%) Shell Script
5 19 (9.05%) SQL
6 17 (8.10%) Java
7 13 (6.19%) Ruby
8 10 (4.76%) Bicep
8 10 (4.76%) C++
9 6 (2.86%) Go
9 6 (2.86%) Groovy
9 6 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.38%) C
10 5 (2.38%) Perl
11 3 (1.43%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.43%) C#
11 3 (1.43%) PHP
11 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.95%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.90%) CCSA
5 4 (1.90%) CEH
5 4 (1.90%) CISM
5 4 (1.90%) Degree
5 4 (1.90%) SSCP
6 2 (0.95%) RHCE
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) GIAC
7 1 (0.48%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 84 (40.00%) Docker
2 31 (14.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (9.05%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.43%) Firmware
6 3 (1.43%) SRDF
7 1 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.48%) LXC
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.48%) XenApp
7 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 161 (76.67%) Ansible
2 101 (48.10%) Terraform
3 96 (45.71%) Progress Chef
4 89 (42.38%) Kubernetes
5 32 (15.24%) Prometheus
6 27 (12.86%) Grafana
7 21 (10.00%) Salt
8 10 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (4.76%) Kibana
8 10 (4.76%) logstash
9 9 (4.29%) Nagios
9 9 (4.29%) Nessus
10 5 (2.38%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.38%) Kiali
10 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.38%) NetBackup
10 5 (2.38%) WebInspect
11 4 (1.90%) Check_MK
11 4 (1.90%) Graylog
11 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (24.29%) VMware
2 38 (18.10%) Red Hat
3 31 (14.76%) Microsoft
4 25 (11.90%) Splunk
5 20 (9.52%) F5
6 18 (8.57%) SaltStack
7 16 (7.62%) Cisco
8 15 (7.14%) New Relic
9 14 (6.67%) Confluent
10 13 (6.19%) Oracle
11 12 (5.71%) Juniper
12 9 (4.29%) Fortinet
13 7 (3.33%) AppDynamics
13 7 (3.33%) Dell
13 7 (3.33%) Google
13 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
13 7 (3.33%) ServiceNow
14 5 (2.38%) SAP
14 5 (2.38%) Veracode
14 5 (2.38%) Veritas