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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 82 99
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing Puppet 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% 0.089% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.61% 0.87% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £570 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.98%

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 153 115 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.60% 10.27% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 58 94
10th Percentile £209 £237 £263
25th Percentile £297 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £374 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.01% -25.20% -
75th Percentile £619 £500 £644
90th Percentile £681 £583 £738
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 24
10th Percentile £20.09 £27.38 -
25th Percentile £20.64 £29.06 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% +100.00% -65.22%
75th Percentile £67.00 £54.69 £49.00
90th Percentile - £63.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +27.89%

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
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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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 -1 3 £625 +4.17% 1
Norfolk - 1 £475 -
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 (25.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) GPFS
1 3 (75.00%) Lustre
1 3 (75.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Salt
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Consul
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Nagios
4 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SaltStack