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 citing Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	120	98	-
Rank change year-on-year	-22	-	-
Contract jobs citing Puppet	7	8	0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England	0.29%	0.53%	-
As % of the Systems Management category	3.20%	5.16%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	6	7	0
10^th Percentile	£450	£357	-
25^th Percentile	£500	£458	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£506	£575	-
Median % change year-on-year	-11.96%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£519	£622	-
90^th Percentile	-	£625	-
England median daily rate	£575	£525	£557
% change year-on-year	+9.52%	-5.75%	-0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£23.00	-	-
England median hourly rate	£36.00	-	£16.00
% change year-on-year	-	-	-79.49%

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 citing systems management skills in the East of England.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing systems management skills	219	155	117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England	9.12%	10.32%	9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	128	88	59
10^th Percentile	£193	£204	£240
25^th Percentile	£395	£220	£325
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£568	£575	£575
90^th Percentile	£741	£700	£585
England median daily rate	£525	£510	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.94%	-2.86%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	27	11	4
10^th Percentile	£15.40	£21.29	£33.00
25^th Percentile	£16.25	£33.23	£37.50
Median hourly rate	£63.00	£63.50	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-0.79%	+41.11%	-8.16%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£67.00	£54.69
90^th Percentile	£68.75	-	£63.13
England median hourly rate	£63.31	£34.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+86.20%	-9.33%	-23.47%

Puppet Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Puppet Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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 13 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Cambridgeshire	+3	5	£513	-17.17%	4
Norfolk	+5	2	£400	-15.79%
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Puppet Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Puppet also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region citing Puppet.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Bash	85.7%	6
1	CI/CD	85.7%	6
1	Linux	85.7%	6
1	Python	85.7%	6
1	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	85.7%	6
6	DevOps	71.4%	5
6	Git	71.4%	5
6	Groovy	71.4%	5
6	Infrastructure Engineering	71.4%	5
6	Jenkins	71.4%	5
11	Docker	57.1%	4
11	Gerrit	57.1%	4
11	Grafana	57.1%	4
11	InfluxDB	57.1%	4
11	JIRA	57.1%	4
11	Jolokia	57.1%	4
11	LDAP	57.1%	4
11	PostgreSQL	57.1%	4
11	Problem-Solving	57.1%	4
11	Prometheus	57.1%	4
11	Reverse Proxy	57.1%	4
11	Rocky	57.1%	4
11	SQL	57.1%	4
11	SSL	57.1%	4
11	Ubuntu	57.1%	4
26	Ansible	42.9%	3
26	Apache	42.9%	3
26	Artifactory	42.9%	3
26	Confluence	42.9%	3
26	Coverity	42.9%	3

Puppet Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Grafana	57.1%	4
1	Prometheus	57.1%	4
3	Ansible	42.9%	3
3	HAProxy	42.9%	3
5	Progress Chef	28.6%	2
6	Packer	14.3%	1
6	Salt	14.3%	1