Puppet Contracts

Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 378 324 291
Rank change year-on-year -54 -33 -54
Contract jobs citing Puppet 204 420 829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.75% 0.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.91% 4.76% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 298 620
10th Percentile £450 £463 £431
25th Percentile £500 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +14.08%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £725 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £561 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.58% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £67.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 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 14 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 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
England -22 181 £573 -7.10% 90
London +16 102 £600 -4.00% 36
UK excluding London -43 76 £561 -6.58% 52
Work from Home +9 70 £570 -5.08% 49
North of England +42 40 £525 -4.11% 10
Yorkshire +49 38 £525 -4.11% 4
South East +5 17 £582 -2.18% 16
South West -25 17 £582 -6.88% 12
Midlands +25 12 £582 -1.77% 7
West Midlands +16 12 £582 -1.77% 5
Scotland +2 3 £525 -17.19% 1
North West +9 2 - - 4
East of England -5 2 £675 +29.81% 7
Wales +14 1 £690 +25.45% 2

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 16 (7.84%) Confluence
2 14 (6.86%) Apache
3 8 (3.92%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.94%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.45%) IIS
5 5 (2.45%) nginx
6 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.98%) Traefik
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.16%) AWS
2 68 (33.33%) Azure
3 40 (19.61%) GCP
4 31 (15.20%) GitHub
5 17 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (7.35%) OpenShift
7 14 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.41%) Kong
8 9 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.43%) Route 53
11 6 (2.94%) Apigee
11 6 (2.94%) Cloudflare
11 6 (2.94%) Datadog
11 6 (2.94%) PaaS
12 5 (2.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.24%) TCP/IP
2 23 (11.27%) DNS
2 23 (11.27%) Firewall
3 20 (9.80%) HTTP
3 20 (9.80%) VLAN
4 15 (7.35%) SSL
5 12 (5.88%) VPN
6 7 (3.43%) Internet
7 6 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (2.94%) SMTP
8 5 (2.45%) IPv4
9 4 (1.96%) DHCP
9 4 (1.96%) DMZ
9 4 (1.96%) OSPF
10 3 (1.47%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.47%) Network Security
10 3 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.31%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (8.82%) MySQL
4 11 (5.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (5.39%) Big Data
4 11 (5.39%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.90%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.43%) Sybase ASE
8 6 (2.94%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.96%) DataStax
11 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.98%) Redis
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (43.14%) Jenkins
2 65 (31.86%) Git
3 35 (17.16%) GitLab
4 30 (14.71%) JIRA
5 16 (7.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (5.88%) CircleCI
7 11 (5.39%) Travis CI
8 9 (4.41%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.94%) AppScan
10 6 (2.94%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.94%) Burp Suite
11 5 (2.45%) Selenium
11 5 (2.45%) Subversion
12 3 (1.47%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.47%) Maven
12 3 (1.47%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Finance
3 33 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.31%) Banking
6 8 (3.92%) Retail
7 6 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.94%) Marketing
8 5 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.96%) Electronics
9 4 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.98%) Wearables
11 1 (0.49%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (9.31%) Automation Engineer
2 19 (9.31%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (6.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (6.37%) Architect
4 13 (6.37%) Senior
5 12 (5.88%) Server Engineer
5 12 (5.88%) Site Engineer
6 11 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
6 11 (5.39%) Linux Server Engineer
6 11 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.90%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.90%) Principal Architect
7 10 (4.90%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.41%) Lead
8 9 (4.41%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Data Protection Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.20%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (13.24%) YAML
3 15 (7.35%) JSON
4 12 (5.88%) XML
5 8 (3.92%) Kafka
6 7 (3.43%) FastAPI
6 7 (3.43%) Node.js
7 5 (2.45%) REST
8 4 (1.96%) .NET
8 4 (1.96%) CSS
8 4 (1.96%) HTML
9 3 (1.47%) LDAP
9 3 (1.47%) RESTful
9 3 (1.47%) SOAP
10 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.98%) cloud-init
10 2 (0.98%) Loki
10 2 (0.98%) React
11 1 (0.49%) LEMP Stack
11 1 (0.49%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.84%) Replication
3 15 (7.35%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.94%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.96%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.47%) Clustering
9 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.47%) PKI
10 2 (0.98%) CCTV
10 2 (0.98%) Life Science
10 2 (0.98%) NHS
10 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (62.75%) Linux
2 62 (30.39%) Windows
3 28 (13.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (11.27%) Unix
5 11 (5.39%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.92%) CentOS
7 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (51.47%) DevOps
2 81 (39.71%) CI/CD
3 74 (36.27%) Agile
3 74 (36.27%) Configuration Management
3 74 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (26.47%) Containerisation
5 41 (20.10%) Scrum
6 36 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (11.76%) SDLC
11 22 (10.78%) ITIL
11 22 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (9.80%) Task Automation
13 18 (8.82%) Project Management
14 17 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
14 17 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (7.84%) Change Management
15 16 (7.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 102 (50.00%) Python
2 81 (39.71%) PowerShell
3 55 (26.96%) Bash
4 18 (8.82%) Ruby
4 18 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 17 (8.33%) Java
6 15 (7.35%) Go
7 14 (6.86%) Perl
8 9 (4.41%) C++
9 6 (2.94%) Groovy
10 5 (2.45%) C
10 5 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.45%) SQL
11 4 (1.96%) Bicep
11 4 (1.96%) PHP
12 3 (1.47%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.47%) C#
13 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.94%) Degree
6 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.47%) SANS
7 2 (0.98%) RHCE
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) GIAC
8 1 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) LPIC
8 1 (0.49%) OCP
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) NCSC
2 2 (0.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (40.69%) Docker
2 28 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.90%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.45%) Firmware
6 4 (1.96%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.47%) vCloud
7 3 (1.47%) vSphere
8 2 (0.98%) KVM
8 2 (0.98%) NFS
9 1 (0.49%) Ceph
9 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.49%) Postfix
9 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 166 (81.37%) Ansible
2 114 (55.88%) Terraform
3 95 (46.57%) Progress Chef
4 82 (40.20%) Kubernetes
5 31 (15.20%) Prometheus
6 23 (11.27%) Grafana
7 21 (10.29%) Salt
8 15 (7.35%) NetBackup
9 13 (6.37%) Docker Swarm
9 13 (6.37%) Nagios
10 12 (5.88%) Kibana
10 12 (5.88%) logstash
11 10 (4.90%) Graylog
12 7 (3.43%) Packer
13 6 (2.94%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (2.94%) HP Fortify
13 6 (2.94%) Nessus
13 6 (2.94%) Rancher
13 6 (2.94%) WebInspect
14 5 (2.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (17.16%) VMware
2 33 (16.18%) Splunk
3 26 (12.75%) Microsoft
4 23 (11.27%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.82%) SaltStack
6 15 (7.35%) F5
6 15 (7.35%) Veritas
7 8 (3.92%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.92%) Oracle
7 8 (3.92%) Sybase
8 7 (3.43%) Centrify
8 7 (3.43%) Dell
9 6 (2.94%) Checkmarx
9 6 (2.94%) Cisco
9 6 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.94%) Juniper
9 6 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.94%) Veracode
10 5 (2.45%) BMC
10 5 (2.45%) SAP