Puppet Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Puppet
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Puppet 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
England median daily rate £525 £565 £582
% change year-on-year -7.08% -2.92% -6.88%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 38 22 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.92% 7.14% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 31
10th Percentile £205 £185 £290
25th Percentile £400 £274 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £388 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -12.87% +27.14%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £613
90th Percentile £603 £534 £775
England median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.72%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.33% -44.78% -16.04%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 2 £525 - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes