Puppet Contracts with Work from Home Options

Puppet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 268 290 264
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 -31
Contract jobs citing Puppet 73 170 448
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.71% 1.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.37% 4.44% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 125 361
10th Percentile £460 £461 £415
25th Percentile £500 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £554
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +8.30% +10.80%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £671
90th Percentile £743 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,671 3,829 7,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 16.04% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,832 5,257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

Puppet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Puppet trend for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet.

Puppet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Puppet over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Puppet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Puppet.

Puppet hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (10.96%) Confluence
2 5 (6.85%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.74%) nginx
4 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.37%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (45.21%) AWS
2 22 (30.14%) Azure
3 11 (15.07%) GCP
4 7 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (9.59%) GitHub
4 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.48%) Datadog
5 4 (5.48%) Serverless
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Kong
6 3 (4.11%) Route 53
6 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.74%) Apigee
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) Firewall
2 7 (9.59%) VLAN
3 6 (8.22%) DNS
4 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.11%) HTTP
5 3 (4.11%) VPN
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.74%) DHCP
6 2 (2.74%) DSL
6 2 (2.74%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.74%) Internet
6 2 (2.74%) SAN
6 2 (2.74%) SSL
7 1 (1.37%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.37%) DMZ
7 1 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.37%) IPv4
7 1 (1.37%) Network Security
7 1 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.37%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (9.59%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (9.59%) MySQL
2 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.11%) DataStax
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.74%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.37%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.37%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (36.99%) Jenkins
2 17 (23.29%) Git
3 14 (19.18%) JIRA
4 12 (16.44%) GitLab
5 6 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.48%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.48%) Travis CI
7 3 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.74%) Maven
9 1 (1.37%) AppScan
9 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.37%) Darcs
9 1 (1.37%) Gradle
9 1 (1.37%) Hudson
9 1 (1.37%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.37%) Selenium
9 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.37%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.33%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Marketing
5 3 (4.11%) Retail
6 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Electronics
7 1 (1.37%) French Language
7 1 (1.37%) Games
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (10.96%) Senior
3 6 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Unix Specialist
5 4 (5.48%) Vulnerability Specialist
6 3 (4.11%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) DBA
6 3 (4.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Lead
6 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) Administrator
7 2 (2.74%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.33%) YAML
3 6 (8.22%) JSON
3 6 (8.22%) XML
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
4 5 (6.85%) Node.js
5 4 (5.48%) REST
6 3 (4.11%) RESTful
6 3 (4.11%) SOAP
7 2 (2.74%) .NET
7 2 (2.74%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.74%) React
8 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.37%) CSS
8 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.37%) LAMP
8 1 (1.37%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.37%) LDAP
8 1 (1.37%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Replication
2 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) CBDC
5 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.74%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.37%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (52.05%) Linux
2 24 (32.88%) Windows
3 8 (10.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.96%) Unix
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Solaris
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (54.79%) DevOps
2 29 (39.73%) Configuration Management
3 27 (36.99%) CI/CD
4 26 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (32.88%) Agile
6 19 (26.03%) Test Automation
7 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
8 15 (20.55%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (15.07%) Scrum
11 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) High Availability
12 7 (9.59%) ITIL
12 7 (9.59%) Kanban
13 6 (8.22%) Change Management
13 6 (8.22%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (8.22%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Python
2 26 (35.62%) PowerShell
3 25 (34.25%) Bash
4 11 (15.07%) Java
4 11 (15.07%) Ruby
5 9 (12.33%) Go
6 7 (9.59%) C++
6 7 (9.59%) Perl
6 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) C
7 4 (5.48%) Groovy
7 4 (5.48%) SQL
8 3 (4.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.74%) C#
9 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.37%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.37%) PHP
10 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.11%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (41.10%) Docker
2 8 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.11%) Firmware
5 3 (4.11%) vCloud
5 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.11%) vSphere
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.37%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 63 (86.30%) Ansible
2 42 (57.53%) Terraform
3 38 (52.05%) Progress Chef
4 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
5 11 (15.07%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.59%) Grafana
7 6 (8.22%) Kibana
7 6 (8.22%) logstash
7 6 (8.22%) NetBackup
7 6 (8.22%) Salt
8 5 (6.85%) Nagios
9 4 (5.48%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (4.11%) Autotask
10 3 (4.11%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.37%) Consul
11 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (1.37%) Istio
11 1 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) VMware
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Splunk
3 9 (12.33%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.22%) SaltStack
4 6 (8.22%) Veritas
5 5 (6.85%) Oracle
6 4 (5.48%) BMC
6 4 (5.48%) Qualys
6 4 (5.48%) Remedy
7 3 (4.11%) Arista
7 3 (4.11%) Confluent
7 3 (4.11%) Dell
7 3 (4.11%) F5
7 3 (4.11%) Google
7 3 (4.11%) New Relic
7 3 (4.11%) Sybase
7 3 (4.11%) TOWER Software
8 2 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow