Puppet Contracts in Berkshire

Puppet
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 123 105
Rank change year-on-year +37 -18 +23
Contract jobs citing Puppet 7 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 0.050% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.55% 0.41% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £435 - £539
25th Percentile £497 £525 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +52.94%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £688
90th Percentile £645 - £693
South East median daily rate £575 £584 £625
% change year-on-year -1.50% -6.60% +7.53%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 154 242 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.13% 12.20% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 179 142
10th Percentile £400 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £275 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £675
90th Percentile £675 £632 £750
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £50.53
25th Percentile - - £58.91
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%
75th Percentile - - £75.56
90th Percentile - - £81.98
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Berkshire

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in Berkshire

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in Berkshire

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in Berkshire

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +34 4 £563 +2.27% 2
Windsor - 3 £600 -
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware