Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 352 281
Rank change year-on-year -16 -71 -45
Contract jobs citing Puppet 183 308 691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.65% 0.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.97% 4.29% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 228 525
10th Percentile £450 £473 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +4.35% +9.73%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £738 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £69.40 -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,609 7,176 11,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.29% 15.26% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 5,190 8,132
10th Percentile £290 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 166 155
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.61 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 13 June 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 13 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
London +5 102 £600 -4.00% 30
North of England +38 42 £533 -2.74% 10
Yorkshire +48 41 £533 -2.74% 4
South East +5 17 £582 -1.36% 19
South West -25 16 £582 -6.88% 11
West Midlands +22 13 £582 -1.77% 5
Midlands +21 13 £582 -1.77% 8
East of England -5 2 £675 +29.81% 10
North West +2 1 - - 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 15 (8.20%) Confluence
2 12 (6.56%) Apache
3 6 (3.28%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.73%) IIS
4 5 (2.73%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.64%) nginx
5 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) JBoss
7 1 (0.55%) Traefik
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.53%) AWS
2 59 (32.24%) Azure
3 36 (19.67%) GCP
4 26 (14.21%) GitHub
5 17 (9.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.01%) OpenShift
7 9 (4.92%) Kong
8 8 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.37%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.83%) Route 53
10 6 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.28%) Apigee
10 6 (3.28%) Cloudflare
10 6 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.73%) Datadog
11 5 (2.73%) PaaS
11 5 (2.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.21%) TCP/IP
2 24 (13.11%) Firewall
3 20 (10.93%) DNS
3 20 (10.93%) HTTP
3 20 (10.93%) VLAN
4 14 (7.65%) SSL
5 12 (6.56%) VPN
6 6 (3.28%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (3.28%) Internet
6 6 (3.28%) SMTP
7 5 (2.73%) IPv4
8 4 (2.19%) OSPF
9 3 (1.64%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.64%) DMZ
9 3 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (1.64%) Network Security
9 3 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.09%) DHCP
11 1 (0.55%) BGP
11 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.65%) MySQL
4 12 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.46%) Big Data
5 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.83%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.83%) Sybase ASE
8 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.19%) DataStax
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.55%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (42.62%) Jenkins
2 56 (30.60%) Git
3 29 (15.85%) GitLab
4 24 (13.11%) JIRA
5 12 (6.56%) CircleCI
6 11 (6.01%) Travis CI
7 10 (5.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.73%) AppScan
10 5 (2.73%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.73%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.73%) Selenium
11 4 (2.19%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.19%) Subversion
12 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.64%) Jaeger
12 3 (1.64%) Maven
12 3 (1.64%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.67%) Finance
3 32 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.38%) Banking
5 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.37%) Retail
7 6 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.28%) Marketing
8 5 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.19%) Electronics
9 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) German Language
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (26.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (10.38%) Automation Engineer
2 19 (10.38%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (6.56%) Architect
4 11 (6.01%) Cloud Architect
4 11 (6.01%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (6.01%) Server Engineer
4 11 (6.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.46%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.46%) Lead
5 10 (5.46%) Principal Architect
5 10 (5.46%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.92%) Senior
6 9 (4.92%) Site Engineer
6 9 (4.92%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (3.83%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.30%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (13.11%) YAML
3 12 (6.56%) JSON
4 9 (4.92%) Kafka
4 9 (4.92%) XML
5 7 (3.83%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.19%) CSS
6 4 (2.19%) HTML
7 3 (1.64%) .NET
8 2 (1.09%) LDAP
8 2 (1.09%) Node.js
8 2 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.09%) React
8 2 (1.09%) REST
9 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.55%) cloud-init
9 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.55%) React Native
9 1 (0.55%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.74%) Replication
3 14 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.46%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.28%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.09%) CBDC
10 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) PKI
10 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.55%) Derivative
11 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 119 (65.03%) Linux
2 55 (30.05%) Windows
3 27 (14.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (11.48%) Unix
5 8 (4.37%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.28%) CentOS
7 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.55%) Solaris
8 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.82%) DevOps
2 77 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 68 (37.16%) Configuration Management
3 68 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (34.43%) Agile
5 48 (26.23%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.77%) Scrum
7 30 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.39%) Test Automation
8 27 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 21 (11.48%) ITIL
10 21 (11.48%) SDLC
11 19 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (9.29%) DevSecOps
12 17 (9.29%) Project Management
12 17 (9.29%) Task Automation
13 16 (8.74%) Change Management
13 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (8.20%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 86 (46.99%) Python
2 75 (40.98%) PowerShell
3 47 (25.68%) Bash
4 20 (10.93%) Shell Script
5 15 (8.20%) Java
6 13 (7.10%) Perl
7 11 (6.01%) Ruby
8 9 (4.92%) C++
8 9 (4.92%) Go
9 6 (3.28%) Groovy
9 6 (3.28%) SQL
10 5 (2.73%) C
10 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.19%) Bicep
11 4 (2.19%) PHP
12 3 (1.64%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.64%) C#
13 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.55%) Rust
14 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.11%) DV Cleared
4 19 (10.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Degree
6 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) RHCE
7 2 (1.09%) SANS
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) GIAC
8 1 (0.55%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.55%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.29%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) SLA
3 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.55%) NCSC
3 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (38.80%) Docker
2 22 (12.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.74%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.37%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.19%) Firmware
6 2 (1.09%) NFS
7 1 (0.55%) Ceph
7 1 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 151 (82.51%) Ansible
2 96 (52.46%) Terraform
3 88 (48.09%) Progress Chef
4 69 (37.70%) Kubernetes
5 28 (15.30%) Prometheus
6 20 (10.93%) Grafana
6 20 (10.93%) Salt
7 15 (8.20%) NetBackup
8 11 (6.01%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (6.01%) Kibana
8 11 (6.01%) logstash
9 9 (4.92%) Nagios
10 7 (3.83%) Graylog
11 6 (3.28%) Rancher
12 5 (2.73%) HP Fortify
12 5 (2.73%) Nessus
12 5 (2.73%) Packer
12 5 (2.73%) WebInspect
13 4 (2.19%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (1.64%) Netcool
Vendors
1 31 (16.94%) Splunk
2 26 (14.21%) VMware
3 22 (12.02%) Red Hat
4 21 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 17 (9.29%) SaltStack
6 15 (8.20%) F5
6 15 (8.20%) Veritas
7 8 (4.37%) Sybase
8 7 (3.83%) Oracle
9 6 (3.28%) Cisco
9 6 (3.28%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.28%) Juniper
9 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.73%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.73%) Centrify
10 5 (2.73%) Checkmarx
10 5 (2.73%) Dell
10 5 (2.73%) Veracode
11 4 (2.19%) SAP