Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 350 286
Rank change year-on-year -12 -64 -57
Contract jobs citing Puppet 181 316 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.66% 0.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.02% 4.31% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 234 519
10th Percentile £450 £475 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £619 £576
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +7.42% +11.20%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £738 £765
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +13.79%
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 is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,506 7,335 11,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.20% 15.36% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 5,306 8,188
10th Percentile £270 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 159
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.52 £12.98
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.53 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.94 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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 2 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 2 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 +20 102 £600 -4.00% 43
North of England +47 40 £525 -6.46% 10
Yorkshire +52 38 £525 -4.11% 4
South East +4 17 £582 -2.18% 16
South West -21 17 £582 -6.88% 14
Midlands +27 12 £582 -1.77% 7
West Midlands +17 12 £582 -1.77% 5
North West +3 2 - - 4
East of England -2 2 £675 +29.81% 7
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 16 (8.84%) Confluence
2 13 (7.18%) Apache
3 6 (3.31%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.31%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.76%) IIS
5 4 (2.21%) nginx
6 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.10%) Traefik
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.55%) JBoss
8 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.09%) AWS
2 59 (32.60%) Azure
3 36 (19.89%) GCP
4 26 (14.36%) GitHub
5 16 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (7.18%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.97%) Kong
8 9 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (4.42%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.87%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.87%) Route 53
11 6 (3.31%) Apigee
11 6 (3.31%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.76%) Datadog
12 5 (2.76%) PaaS
12 5 (2.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.92%) TCP/IP
2 22 (12.15%) DNS
2 22 (12.15%) Firewall
3 20 (11.05%) HTTP
3 20 (11.05%) VLAN
4 14 (7.73%) SSL
5 12 (6.63%) VPN
6 7 (3.87%) Internet
7 6 (3.31%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (3.31%) SMTP
8 5 (2.76%) IPv4
9 4 (2.21%) OSPF
10 3 (1.66%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.66%) DHCP
10 3 (1.66%) DMZ
10 3 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.66%) Network Security
10 3 (1.66%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.55%) HSRP
11 1 (0.55%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.29%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.73%) MySQL
4 10 (5.52%) Big Data
4 10 (5.52%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.52%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.87%) Sybase ASE
7 5 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.21%) DataStax
8 4 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.10%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 76 (41.99%) Jenkins
2 58 (32.04%) Git
3 30 (16.57%) GitLab
4 24 (13.26%) JIRA
5 12 (6.63%) CircleCI
6 11 (6.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (6.08%) Travis CI
7 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.31%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.76%) AppScan
10 5 (2.76%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.76%) Selenium
11 4 (2.21%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.21%) Subversion
12 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.66%) Maven
12 3 (1.66%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.89%) Finance
3 33 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.50%) Banking
5 18 (9.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.42%) Retail
7 6 (3.31%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.31%) Marketing
8 5 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.21%) Electronics
9 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.10%) 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 47 (25.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (10.50%) Automation Engineer
2 19 (10.50%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (6.63%) Architect
3 12 (6.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (6.08%) Cloud Architect
4 11 (6.08%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (6.08%) Server Engineer
4 11 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.52%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.52%) Principal Architect
5 10 (5.52%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.52%) Senior
5 10 (5.52%) Site Engineer
6 9 (4.97%) Lead
6 9 (4.97%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.47%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (13.26%) YAML
3 12 (6.63%) JSON
4 9 (4.97%) XML
5 8 (4.42%) Kafka
6 7 (3.87%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.21%) .NET
7 4 (2.21%) CSS
7 4 (2.21%) HTML
8 3 (1.66%) LDAP
9 2 (1.10%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.10%) cloud-init
9 2 (1.10%) Node.js
9 2 (1.10%) React
9 2 (1.10%) REST
10 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.55%) React Native
10 1 (0.55%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.84%) Replication
3 13 (7.18%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.97%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.31%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.21%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) PKI
10 2 (1.10%) CBDC
10 2 (1.10%) Clustering
10 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.55%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 117 (64.64%) Linux
2 54 (29.83%) Windows
3 28 (15.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (11.05%) Unix
5 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.87%) CentOS
7 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (51.93%) DevOps
2 76 (41.99%) CI/CD
3 67 (37.02%) Configuration Management
3 67 (37.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (35.36%) Agile
5 50 (27.62%) Containerisation
6 39 (21.55%) Scrum
7 31 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (16.02%) Test Automation
9 28 (15.47%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (12.15%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (11.60%) SDLC
12 20 (11.05%) ITIL
12 20 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (9.94%) Task Automation
14 17 (9.39%) Project Management
15 16 (8.84%) Change Management
15 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (8.29%) DevSecOps
16 15 (8.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 89 (49.17%) Python
2 75 (41.44%) PowerShell
3 47 (25.97%) Bash
4 17 (9.39%) Shell Script
5 15 (8.29%) Java
6 13 (7.18%) Perl
7 12 (6.63%) Ruby
8 11 (6.08%) Go
9 9 (4.97%) C++
10 6 (3.31%) Groovy
11 5 (2.76%) C
11 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.21%) Bicep
12 4 (2.21%) PHP
13 3 (1.66%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.66%) C#
13 3 (1.66%) SQL
14 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.26%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.76%) Degree
6 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) RHCE
7 2 (1.10%) 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
8 1 (0.55%) OCP
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.84%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) NCSC
2 2 (1.10%) SLA
3 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (39.23%) Docker
2 24 (13.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.84%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.76%) Firmware
6 2 (1.10%) NFS
7 1 (0.55%) Ceph
7 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 150 (82.87%) Ansible
2 98 (54.14%) Terraform
3 86 (47.51%) Progress Chef
4 69 (38.12%) Kubernetes
5 27 (14.92%) Prometheus
6 20 (11.05%) Grafana
6 20 (11.05%) Salt
7 15 (8.29%) NetBackup
8 12 (6.63%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (6.08%) Kibana
9 11 (6.08%) logstash
10 8 (4.42%) Nagios
11 7 (3.87%) Graylog
12 6 (3.31%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (3.31%) Packer
12 6 (3.31%) Rancher
13 5 (2.76%) HP Fortify
13 5 (2.76%) Nessus
13 5 (2.76%) WebInspect
14 3 (1.66%) Netcool
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Splunk
2 28 (15.47%) VMware
3 22 (12.15%) Red Hat
4 21 (11.60%) Microsoft
5 17 (9.39%) SaltStack
6 15 (8.29%) F5
6 15 (8.29%) Veritas
7 8 (4.42%) Sybase
8 7 (3.87%) Dell
9 6 (3.31%) Cisco
9 6 (3.31%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.31%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.31%) Juniper
9 6 (3.31%) Oracle
9 6 (3.31%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.76%) Centrify
10 5 (2.76%) Checkmarx
10 5 (2.76%) SAP
10 5 (2.76%) Veracode
11 4 (2.21%) Atlassian