Puppet Contracts in the South West

Puppet
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 134 113 141
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 -29
Contract jobs citing Puppet 17 48 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 1.41% 0.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.98% 9.04% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 18
10th Percentile £525 £513 £462
25th Percentile £570 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £625 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +7.53% +10.93%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £671
90th Percentile £688 £700 £686
England median daily rate £573 £619 £576
% change year-on-year -7.47% +7.42% +11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 427 531 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.12% 15.61% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 433 371
10th Percentile £213 £351 £250
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 17
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.03 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £77.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.55% +288.75% -59.60%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £76.28 £89.75 £50.29
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +1 10 £582 -10.46% 2
Gloucestershire -18 3 £550 -8.33% 10
Bristol +5 2 - - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) IPv4
1 3 (17.65%) OSPF
1 3 (17.65%) VLAN
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) YAML
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (82.35%) Configuration Management
3 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (52.94%) Validation
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
8 1 (5.88%) NsoIT
8 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) GIAC
4 1 (5.88%) RHCE
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.76%) Docker
4 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Ansible
2 13 (76.47%) Terraform
3 9 (52.94%) Progress Chef
3 9 (52.94%) Salt
4 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) SaltStack
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) SAP