Puppet Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Puppet
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +39
Contract jobs citing Puppet 7 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.92% 2.87% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £419 £491 £449
25th Percentile - £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £531 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.07% -11.43%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £625
90th Percentile £620 £774 £706
Central London median daily rate £495 £531 £546
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.75% -12.60%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 240 348 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.30% 16.63% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 224 314
10th Percentile £282 £357 £400
25th Percentile £422 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £746 £785
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £45.31
90th Percentile £58.51 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the City of London

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the City of London

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Puppet

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Apigee
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (42.86%) Stackdriver
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) SOA
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Log Aggregation
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 4 (57.14%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Ambari
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) MuleSoft
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable