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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 81 111
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 +4
Contract jobs citing Puppet 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.51% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.74% 3.97% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £340 -
25th Percentile - £475 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +29.81%
75th Percentile - £569 £713
90th Percentile - £603 -
England median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -8.00%

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 172 126 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.73% 12.90% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 93 66
10th Percentile £189 £234 £187
25th Percentile £406 £379 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -2.25%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £600 £631
England median daily rate £509 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -3.05% +0.72% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 13
10th Percentile £18.97 - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.09 £26.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +89.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £19.00
90th Percentile £48.02 - £22.80
England median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%

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 job vacancy trend 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
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 17 May 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +5 3 - - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Grid Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Salt