Puppet Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Puppet
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Puppet 6 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.46% - 0.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.70% - 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £224 - £473
25th Percentile £241 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 - £550
75th Percentile £537 - £556
90th Percentile £582 - £608
England median daily rate £525 £557 £595
% change year-on-year -5.75% -6.39% -0.83%

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 162 129 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.42% 8.39% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 81 147
10th Percentile £200 £225 £273
25th Percentile £395 £313 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £689 £581 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile £53.74 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £61.06 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
% change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the East of England

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Puppet

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 19 September 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 - 4 £238 -
Essex - 1 £575 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Progress Chef
1 5 (83.33%) Salt
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Vertica
2 1 (16.67%) VMware