Puppet Contracts in the East of England

Puppet
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 79 110 115
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Puppet 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.10% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.83% 2.06% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £520
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +29.81% -5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £580
90th Percentile £610 - £619
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 97 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 5.08% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 201
10th Percentile £215 £188 £225
25th Percentile £338 £258 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile £30.25 - £14.25
25th Percentile £36.25 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%
75th Percentile £58.25 £20.19 £65.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £44.16 £74.50
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the East of England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the East of England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the East of England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £550 - 7
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SNA
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Redfish
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C-shell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
2 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) VMware