Puppet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 323 274 267
Rank change year-on-year -49 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Puppet 78 157 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.69% 0.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.23% 4.73% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 99 202
10th Percentile £460 £455 £413
25th Percentile £507 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +9.59% +9.50%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £625
90th Percentile £662 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £66.94 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,414 3,321 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 14.63% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 2,384 2,997
10th Percentile £213 £279 £250
25th Percentile £390 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £52.25 £63.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +38 42 £533 -2.74% 10
Yorkshire +48 41 £533 -2.74% 4
South East +5 17 £582 -1.36% 19
South West -25 16 £582 -6.88% 11
West Midlands +22 13 £582 -1.77% 5
Midlands +21 13 £582 -1.77% 8
Scotland +15 3 £525 -11.32% 1
East of England -5 2 £675 +29.81% 10
Wales +17 1 £690 +25.45% 2
North West +2 1 - - 5
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) nginx
2 1 (1.28%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) AWS
2 22 (28.21%) Azure
3 15 (19.23%) GitHub
4 12 (15.38%) GCP
5 9 (11.54%) Kong
6 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.69%) Apigee
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.13%) AWS KMS
8 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) Route 53
9 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.85%) Datadog
10 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.56%) PaaS
10 2 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.08%) VLAN
2 13 (16.67%) Firewall
3 12 (15.38%) VPN
4 11 (14.10%) DNS
5 10 (12.82%) TCP/IP
6 9 (11.54%) HTTP
7 3 (3.85%) BIG-IP
7 3 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (3.85%) IPv4
7 3 (3.85%) OSPF
7 3 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (3.85%) SSL
8 1 (1.28%) DHCP
8 1 (1.28%) DSL
8 1 (1.28%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.28%) LAN
8 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.97%) MySQL
3 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.28%) Big Data
6 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (43.59%) Jenkins
2 31 (39.74%) Git
3 20 (25.64%) GitLab
4 9 (11.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (11.54%) CircleCI
4 9 (11.54%) JIRA
4 9 (11.54%) Travis CI
5 5 (6.41%) AppScan
5 5 (6.41%) Burp Suite
5 5 (6.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.56%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.28%) Maven
7 1 (1.28%) MSTest
7 1 (1.28%) NUnit
7 1 (1.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 33 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.56%) Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Marketing
5 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.28%) Electronics
6 1 (1.28%) Games
6 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (34.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) Data Protection Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Site Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Consultant
8 3 (3.85%) Data Storage Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (3.85%) Lead
8 3 (3.85%) NetBackup Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.21%) YAML
2 16 (20.51%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (11.54%) JSON
3 9 (11.54%) XML
4 4 (5.13%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.85%) .NET
5 3 (3.85%) Kafka
6 2 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.28%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.28%) cloud-init
7 1 (1.28%) Node.js
7 1 (1.28%) OAuth
7 1 (1.28%) OLE
7 1 (1.28%) React
7 1 (1.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Replication
2 10 (12.82%) Data Structures
3 9 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.56%) Clustering
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.28%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.28%) PKI
6 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (70.51%) Linux
2 38 (48.72%) Windows
3 20 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.69%) CentOS
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.85%) Unix
7 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (56.41%) DevOps
2 37 (47.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (43.59%) Configuration Management
4 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
4 25 (32.05%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.08%) Agile
6 17 (21.79%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 16 (20.51%) Change Management
8 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (19.23%) Project Management
8 15 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 14 (17.95%) Service Delivery
9 14 (17.95%) Task Automation
10 13 (16.67%) Validation
11 12 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (15.38%) DevSecOps
11 12 (15.38%) Scrum
11 12 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 11 (14.10%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 45 (57.69%) PowerShell
2 37 (47.44%) Python
3 28 (35.90%) Bash
4 8 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.69%) C++
6 4 (5.13%) Perl
6 4 (5.13%) Ruby
6 4 (5.13%) SQL
7 3 (3.85%) ActionScript
7 3 (3.85%) C
7 3 (3.85%) Java
8 1 (1.28%) Bicep
8 1 (1.28%) C#
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) PHP
8 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Degree
3 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) RHCE
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) GIAC
4 1 (1.28%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.28%) LPIC
4 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (42.31%) Docker
2 17 (21.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.56%) KVM
5 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.28%) NFS
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (89.74%) Ansible
2 46 (58.97%) Terraform
3 42 (53.85%) Progress Chef
4 33 (42.31%) Kubernetes
5 19 (24.36%) Prometheus
6 15 (19.23%) Grafana
7 14 (17.95%) NetBackup
8 13 (16.67%) Salt
9 10 (12.82%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (12.82%) Kibana
9 10 (12.82%) logstash
10 6 (7.69%) Nagios
11 5 (6.41%) Graylog
11 5 (6.41%) HP Fortify
11 5 (6.41%) Nessus
11 5 (6.41%) Packer
11 5 (6.41%) Rancher
11 5 (6.41%) WebInspect
12 2 (2.56%) Kiali
12 2 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Splunk
1 20 (25.64%) VMware
2 16 (20.51%) Red Hat
3 14 (17.95%) Veritas
4 12 (15.38%) SaltStack
5 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.41%) Checkmarx
6 5 (6.41%) Oracle
6 5 (6.41%) Veracode
7 3 (3.85%) F5
7 3 (3.85%) New Relic
8 2 (2.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.28%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.28%) BMC
9 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.28%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.28%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.28%) SAP
9 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.28%) Zscaler