Puppet Contracts in the North of England

Puppet
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 181 140
Rank change year-on-year +38 -41 +17
Contract jobs citing Puppet 42 21 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 0.39% 1.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.16% 2.58% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 91
10th Percentile £456 £355 £413
25th Percentile £463 £494 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £634
90th Percentile £643 £678 £675
England median daily rate £574 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.38% +4.35% +9.73%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 515 813 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.63% 14.94% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 571 825
10th Percentile £235 £319 £250
25th Percentile £394 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 46 20
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.84 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.89% +56.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.94 £45.76 £22.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £50.83 £51.68
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +48 41 £533 -2.74% 4
North West +2 1 - - 5
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Azure
3 13 (30.95%) GitHub
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
5 9 (21.43%) Kong
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (14.29%) Apigee
7 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (9.52%) AWS KMS
8 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.52%) Route 53
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.38%) Akamai
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) VLAN
2 12 (28.57%) Firewall
3 10 (23.81%) DNS
3 10 (23.81%) TCP/IP
4 9 (21.43%) HTTP
4 9 (21.43%) VPN
5 3 (7.14%) BIG-IP
5 3 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (7.14%) SSL
6 1 (2.38%) LAN
6 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.90%) MySQL
3 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 19 (45.24%) GitLab
3 14 (33.33%) Git
4 9 (21.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (21.43%) CircleCI
4 9 (21.43%) JIRA
4 9 (21.43%) Travis CI
5 4 (9.52%) AppScan
5 4 (9.52%) Burp Suite
5 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.76%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 28 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (61.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Site Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) NetBackup Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Backup Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Developer
8 1 (2.38%) NetApp Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) NetBackup Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (21.43%) JSON
2 9 (21.43%) XML
2 9 (21.43%) YAML
3 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.38%) cloud-init
5 1 (2.38%) OAuth
5 1 (2.38%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Replication
2 9 (21.43%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (69.05%) Linux
2 17 (40.48%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) CentOS
3 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) DevOps
2 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 18 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 15 (35.71%) Change Management
4 15 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (30.95%) Project Management
7 11 (26.19%) Agile
7 11 (26.19%) Continuous Deployment
7 11 (26.19%) Data Protection
7 11 (26.19%) DevSecOps
8 10 (23.81%) API Development
8 10 (23.81%) Scrum
9 9 (21.43%) API Integration
9 9 (21.43%) Secure Coding
9 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (21.43%) Use Case
9 9 (21.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) Python
2 17 (40.48%) PowerShell
3 14 (33.33%) Bash
4 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.14%) ActionScript
6 2 (4.76%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (88.10%) Ansible
2 25 (59.52%) Kubernetes
3 20 (47.62%) Terraform
4 17 (40.48%) Progress Chef
4 17 (40.48%) Prometheus
5 14 (33.33%) NetBackup
6 13 (30.95%) Grafana
7 10 (23.81%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (21.43%) Kibana
8 9 (21.43%) logstash
9 5 (11.90%) Packer
10 4 (9.52%) Graylog
10 4 (9.52%) HP Fortify
10 4 (9.52%) Nessus
10 4 (9.52%) Rancher
10 4 (9.52%) WebInspect
11 2 (4.76%) Kiali
12 1 (2.38%) linkerd
12 1 (2.38%) Podman
12 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Splunk
2 14 (33.33%) Veritas
3 4 (9.52%) Checkmarx
3 4 (9.52%) Veracode
4 3 (7.14%) F5
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) VMware
5 2 (4.76%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.38%) NetApp
6 1 (2.38%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.38%) Symantec
6 1 (2.38%) Zscaler