Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 325 302
Rank change year-on-year -59 -23 -68
Contract jobs citing Puppet 192 439 811
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.77% 0.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.78% 4.80% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 320 617
10th Percentile £450 £450 £446
25th Percentile £500 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +14.85%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £731 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £62.81 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.09% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.00 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -37.09% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England -38 165 £575 -8.00% 96
London +11 101 £600 -4.00% 44
Work from Home +13 68 £575 -4.17% 52
UK excluding London -41 64 £559 -10.64% 54
North of England +33 39 £540 -9.43% 7
Yorkshire +45 36 £533 +6.50% 2
South East +9 8 £575 -8.00% 13
South West -20 8 £613 -3.92% 20
Scotland +14 5 £600 -5.36%
North West +6 3 £582 -10.46% 4
East of England +6 2 £675 +29.81% 7
Midlands +22 1 £638 +31.44% 7
Wales +19 1 £690 +25.45% 2
West Midlands +9 1 £638 +31.44% 6

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (7.29%) Apache
1 14 (7.29%) Confluence
2 8 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.13%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.08%) IIS
4 4 (2.08%) nginx
5 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.04%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.04%) Traefik
7 1 (0.52%) JBoss
7 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (48.44%) AWS
2 69 (35.94%) Azure
3 42 (21.88%) GCP
4 33 (17.19%) GitHub
5 16 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.77%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.69%) Kong
9 8 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.65%) PaaS
10 7 (3.65%) Route 53
10 7 (3.65%) Serverless
11 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.13%) Apigee
11 6 (3.13%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.06%) TCP/IP
2 24 (12.50%) DNS
3 20 (10.42%) HTTP
3 20 (10.42%) VLAN
4 18 (9.38%) Firewall
5 15 (7.81%) SSL
6 12 (6.25%) VPN
7 6 (3.13%) DHCP
7 6 (3.13%) Internet
7 6 (3.13%) SMTP
8 5 (2.60%) IPv4
9 4 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.08%) DMZ
9 4 (2.08%) Network Security
9 4 (2.08%) OSPF
10 3 (1.56%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (9.38%) MySQL
3 14 (7.29%) Big Data
4 11 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (5.21%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.65%) Sybase ASE
8 5 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.60%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.56%) Redis
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.04%) DataStax
11 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.52%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 88 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 50 (26.04%) Git
3 34 (17.71%) GitLab
4 28 (14.58%) JIRA
5 19 (9.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (5.73%) CircleCI
6 11 (5.73%) Travis CI
7 9 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.13%) AppScan
9 6 (3.13%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.13%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.60%) Selenium
10 5 (2.60%) Subversion
11 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.56%) Maven
11 3 (1.56%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.56%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.75%) Finance
3 31 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.38%) Banking
6 7 (3.65%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.65%) Retail
7 6 (3.13%) Marketing
8 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.08%) Electronics
9 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Wearables
11 1 (0.52%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (24.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (10.42%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (8.85%) Architect
4 14 (7.29%) Automation Engineer
4 14 (7.29%) Senior
4 14 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 12 (6.25%) Site Engineer
5 12 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.73%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.73%) Linux Server Engineer
6 11 (5.73%) Principal Architect
6 11 (5.73%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.69%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Lead
10 7 (3.65%) DBA
10 7 (3.65%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.06%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (7.81%) JSON
3 12 (6.25%) XML
3 12 (6.25%) YAML
4 7 (3.65%) Kafka
4 7 (3.65%) Node.js
5 5 (2.60%) REST
6 4 (2.08%) .NET
6 4 (2.08%) CSS
6 4 (2.08%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.08%) HTML
6 4 (2.08%) Loki
7 3 (1.56%) LDAP
7 3 (1.56%) RESTful
7 3 (1.56%) SOAP
8 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.04%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.04%) Middleware
8 2 (1.04%) React
9 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.33%) Replication
3 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.08%) CCTV
8 4 (2.08%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.56%) Clustering
9 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.56%) PKI
10 2 (1.04%) NHS
10 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (60.94%) Linux
2 52 (27.08%) Windows
3 26 (13.54%) Unix
4 15 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 8 (4.17%) CentOS
7 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.00%) DevOps
2 79 (41.15%) CI/CD
3 71 (36.98%) Agile
4 63 (32.81%) Configuration Management
5 61 (31.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (28.65%) Containerisation
7 43 (22.40%) Scrum
8 36 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (15.10%) Test Automation
11 27 (14.06%) SDLC
12 23 (11.98%) ITIL
13 21 (10.94%) Task Automation
14 20 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (9.38%) Project Management
16 16 (8.33%) Change Management
16 16 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
16 16 (8.33%) Use Case
17 15 (7.81%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (53.65%) Python
2 68 (35.42%) PowerShell
3 57 (29.69%) Bash
4 21 (10.94%) Ruby
5 18 (9.38%) Java
6 16 (8.33%) Go
6 16 (8.33%) Perl
7 13 (6.77%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.69%) C++
9 5 (2.60%) C
9 5 (2.60%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.60%) SQL
10 4 (2.08%) Bicep
10 4 (2.08%) Groovy
10 4 (2.08%) PHP
11 3 (1.56%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.56%) C#
12 2 (1.04%) Scala
12 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.02%) DV Cleared
4 19 (9.90%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.13%) Degree
6 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.56%) SANS
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.04%) RHCE
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) GIAC
8 1 (0.52%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.52%) LPIC
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) NCSC
2 2 (1.04%) SLA
3 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (42.19%) Docker
2 13 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.65%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.60%) Firmware
5 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.56%) vCloud
6 3 (1.56%) vSphere
7 2 (1.04%) KVM
7 2 (1.04%) NFS
8 1 (0.52%) Ceph
8 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.52%) Postfix
8 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 153 (79.69%) Ansible
2 103 (53.65%) Terraform
3 83 (43.23%) Progress Chef
4 81 (42.19%) Kubernetes
5 32 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 25 (13.02%) Grafana
7 15 (7.81%) Nagios
7 15 (7.81%) NetBackup
8 13 (6.77%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (6.25%) Graylog
10 11 (5.73%) Kibana
10 11 (5.73%) logstash
11 9 (4.69%) Packer
12 6 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (3.13%) HP Fortify
12 6 (3.13%) Nessus
12 6 (3.13%) Rancher
12 6 (3.13%) Salt
12 6 (3.13%) WebInspect
12 6 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Splunk
2 25 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.42%) VMware
4 15 (7.81%) Veritas
5 13 (6.77%) F5
6 9 (4.69%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.17%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.17%) Oracle
7 8 (4.17%) Sybase
8 7 (3.65%) Centrify
8 7 (3.65%) Dell
9 6 (3.13%) Checkmarx
9 6 (3.13%) SAP
9 6 (3.13%) Veracode
10 5 (2.60%) BMC
10 5 (2.60%) New Relic
10 5 (2.60%) Remedy
10 5 (2.60%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.08%) Juniper
11 4 (2.08%) TOWER Software