Puppet Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Puppet
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 89 123
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 -15
Contract jobs citing Puppet 1 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.055% 0.80% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 5.85% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £378 £524
25th Percentile - £383 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £444 £580
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -23.49% +5.45%
75th Percentile - £595 £620
90th Percentile - £628 £661
South East median daily rate £590 £488 £580
% change year-on-year +21.03% -15.95% +10.48%

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 306 171 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.94% 13.64% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 116 196
10th Percentile £310 £350 £205
25th Percentile £387 £408 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £630 £600
90th Percentile £613 £686 £618
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £18.22 - £53.38
25th Percentile £18.97 - £60.85
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £66.82
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.74%
75th Percentile £80.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £83.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £47.50
% change year-on-year +200.97% -66.35% -13.64%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Puppet job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Puppet

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Puppet

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 7 March 2026. 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
Wokingham - 1 £410 - 2
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform