Puppet Contracts in the South East

Puppet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 183 188 213
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing Puppet 17 27 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.48% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.16% 3.64% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 39
10th Percentile £525 £471 £409
25th Percentile £563 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £662 £693 £675
England median daily rate £574 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.38% +4.35% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 786 741 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 13.08% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 543 745
10th Percentile £225 £309 £251
25th Percentile £413 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £17.21
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.71 £46.69
90th Percentile £52.70 £75.75 £67.63
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 South East

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South East 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
Hampshire -4 15 £584 -1.93% 7
Thames Valley +2 2 £550 -12.00% 4
Berkshire -15 1 £550 -18.52% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Appium
3 1 (5.88%) MSTest
3 1 (5.88%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) YAML
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
1 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Configuration Management
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Automation
3 9 (52.94%) Validation
3 9 (52.94%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) BDD
5 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (17.65%) High Availability
5 3 (17.65%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.88%) Coaching
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.88%) OO
7 1 (5.88%) OOP
7 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) PowerShell
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Perl
5 3 (17.65%) C
5 3 (17.65%) Java
5 3 (17.65%) Ruby
6 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Ansible
2 16 (94.12%) Progress Chef
2 16 (94.12%) Terraform
3 9 (52.94%) Salt
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 3 (17.65%) Nagios
6 1 (5.88%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Red Hat
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) SaltStack
3 3 (17.65%) New Relic
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Google