Puppet Contract Job Trends in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 358 317
Rank change year-on-year -80 -41 -35
Contract jobs citing Puppet 109 138 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.17% 3.34% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 71 191
10th Percentile £401 £400 £413
25th Percentile £474 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +1.78% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £669
90th Percentile £673 £656 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £559
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.91% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £23.45 £71.40
25th Percentile - £35.38 -
Median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.85% -
75th Percentile - £75.38 -
90th Percentile - £87.15 £78.59
UK median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.85% -

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,020 4,134 5,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.80% 14.44% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 2,672 3,648
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 52 156
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.03 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.28% -41.80% +31.94%
75th Percentile £64.88 £63.00 £67.13
90th Percentile £79.60 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +91.22% -46.21% +31.94%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
London -33 36 £525 -7.08% 24
Midlands -20 31 £538 +0.47% 30
West Midlands -8 29 £550 +2.80% 17
North of England -61 20 £500 -15.43% 32
Yorkshire -29 19 £500 -14.16% 18
South East -14 13 £590 +20.41% 32
South West -22 5 £600 -2.44% 14
East of England -18 4 £619 +3.13% 23
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 11
North West -38 1 £525 -12.50% 13
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (11.93%) Apache
1 13 (11.93%) Confluence
2 8 (7.34%) JBoss
2 8 (7.34%) WebLogic
3 7 (6.42%) OpenStack
4 6 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.67%) SAS
6 3 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.92%) CICS
7 1 (0.92%) IIS
7 1 (0.92%) Luigi
7 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Weka
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.88%) AWS
2 37 (33.94%) Azure
3 29 (26.61%) GitHub
4 25 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (22.02%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (21.10%) GCP
7 21 (19.27%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (18.35%) Amazon S3
9 17 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (10.09%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (10.09%) IaaS
11 11 (10.09%) Serverless
12 10 (9.17%) Azure AKS
13 9 (8.26%) OpenShift
14 8 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (7.34%) Datadog
15 7 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
2 9 (8.26%) DNS
3 8 (7.34%) Firewall
4 4 (3.67%) DHCP
4 4 (3.67%) HTTP
4 4 (3.67%) VPN
5 3 (2.75%) Network Security
6 2 (1.83%) Internet
6 2 (1.83%) SMTP
6 2 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.92%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.92%) LAN
7 1 (0.92%) MQTT
7 1 (0.92%) Multicast
7 1 (0.92%) NAS
7 1 (0.92%) SAN
7 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (13.76%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (12.84%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
6 9 (8.26%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.59%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.59%) HBase
7 5 (4.59%) MySQL
8 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.83%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.92%) Azkaban
11 1 (0.92%) CrateDB
11 1 (0.92%) MemSQL
11 1 (0.92%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 35 (32.11%) Git
2 33 (30.28%) Jenkins
3 24 (22.02%) GitLab
4 15 (13.76%) JIRA
5 14 (12.84%) Selenium
6 13 (11.93%) Bitbucket
6 13 (11.93%) JUnit
7 9 (8.26%) Artifactory
7 9 (8.26%) SonarQube
8 8 (7.34%) Eclipse
8 8 (7.34%) Gradle
8 8 (7.34%) IntelliJ
8 8 (7.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (6.42%) Cypress.io
9 7 (6.42%) Maven
9 7 (6.42%) Postman
10 6 (5.50%) CircleCI
11 5 (4.59%) Snyk
11 5 (4.59%) webpack
12 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 35 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 8 (7.34%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.83%) Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (20.18%) Site Engineer
3 20 (18.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Senior
6 8 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (6.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Lead
10 3 (2.75%) Architect
10 3 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.83%) Administrator
11 2 (1.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (15.60%) REST
3 14 (12.84%) JSON
4 11 (10.09%) YAML
5 9 (8.26%) XML
6 8 (7.34%) EJB
6 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
6 8 (7.34%) HTML
6 8 (7.34%) HTML5
6 8 (7.34%) J2EE
6 8 (7.34%) J2SE
6 8 (7.34%) Play Framework
6 8 (7.34%) SOAP
6 8 (7.34%) Spring
7 5 (4.59%) Kafka
7 5 (4.59%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.75%) Node.js
8 3 (2.75%) RESTful
9 2 (1.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.01%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.75%) Clustering
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.83%) PKI
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) CMDB
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.92%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.92%) IVR
8 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (61.47%) Linux
2 29 (26.61%) Unix
3 13 (11.93%) Windows
4 7 (6.42%) CentOS
4 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.92%) MVS
7 1 (0.92%) Solaris
7 1 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (66.06%) DevOps
2 65 (59.63%) CI/CD
3 57 (52.29%) Configuration Management
4 54 (49.54%) Containerisation
4 54 (49.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (33.03%) Agile
5 36 (33.03%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (27.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 23 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (19.27%) Observability
8 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
9 19 (17.43%) Computer Science
9 19 (17.43%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (15.60%) Incident Response
10 17 (15.60%) Microservices
10 17 (15.60%) Migration
10 17 (15.60%) Scrum
11 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (13.76%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (13.76%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (67.89%) Python
2 45 (41.28%) Bash
3 19 (17.43%) SQL
4 16 (14.68%) Java
4 16 (14.68%) Shell Script
5 14 (12.84%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.26%) Scala
7 6 (5.50%) Perl
8 4 (3.67%) Go
8 4 (3.67%) Ruby
9 3 (2.75%) C++
9 3 (2.75%) Groovy
9 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.92%) C#
10 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.27%) Degree
3 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (11.93%) SC Cleared
5 12 (11.01%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.42%) RHCE
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.67%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (62.39%) Docker
2 10 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.59%) HDFS
3 5 (4.59%) KVM
4 4 (3.67%) GPFS
4 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.67%) Lustre
4 4 (3.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.83%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.92%) NFS
6 1 (0.92%) SRDF
6 1 (0.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (80.73%) Ansible
2 57 (52.29%) Terraform
3 54 (49.54%) Kubernetes
4 30 (27.52%) Progress Chef
5 28 (25.69%) Grafana
6 22 (20.18%) Prometheus
7 12 (11.01%) Kibana
8 8 (7.34%) NetBackup
9 7 (6.42%) Podman
10 5 (4.59%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (3.67%) Istio
11 4 (3.67%) Salt
12 3 (2.75%) Ambari
12 3 (2.75%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.75%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (1.83%) SCCM
13 2 (1.83%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 23 (21.10%) Splunk
2 14 (12.84%) Red Hat
3 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.17%) VMware
5 8 (7.34%) Commvault
5 8 (7.34%) PagerDuty
5 8 (7.34%) webMethods
6 5 (4.59%) Google
6 5 (4.59%) SnapLogic
7 4 (3.67%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.67%) Oracle
8 3 (2.75%) NetApp
9 2 (1.83%) Citrix
9 2 (1.83%) Dell
9 2 (1.83%) Tenable
10 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.92%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.92%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.92%) SaltStack