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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 305 370
Rank change year-on-year -173 +65 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 96 174 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.71% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.75% 4.54% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 131 127
10th Percentile £431 £385 £420
25th Percentile £500 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -6.88%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £688
90th Percentile £643 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £582
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -39.10%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -34.74% +55.10% -16.10%

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 5,501 3,834 4,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.80% 15.59% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,804 2,656 3,180
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.68% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 35 121
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.94 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% +0.93% -52.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.75
% change year-on-year +107.94% -13.98% -46.52%

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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 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
London -106 35 £530 -1.40% 8
North of England -73 20 £500 +23.92% 7
Yorkshire -56 19 £500 +23.46% 1
Midlands -44 18 £538 +64.88% 3
West Midlands -45 14 £550 - 2
South East -74 10 £650 +13.04% 4
South West -76 7 £553 -7.92% 10
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -40 2 - - 6
North West -46 1 £300 -25.37% 4
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 14 (14.58%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.08%) JBoss
3 2 (2.08%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.04%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Weka
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.83%) AWS
2 32 (33.33%) Azure
3 23 (23.96%) GitHub
4 18 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (15.63%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.63%) IaaS
8 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (13.54%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (13.54%) GCP
9 13 (13.54%) Serverless
10 11 (11.46%) Azure AKS
11 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
12 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (7.29%) CloudBees
12 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
12 7 (7.29%) PaaS
13 5 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Firewall
1 12 (12.50%) VPN
2 10 (10.42%) DNS
3 7 (7.29%) DHCP
3 7 (7.29%) SMTP
4 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.17%) Network Security
5 4 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (3.13%) SAN
7 2 (2.08%) HTTP
7 2 (2.08%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.04%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.04%) Internet
8 1 (1.04%) MQTT
8 1 (1.04%) NAS
8 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (32.29%) Jenkins
2 26 (27.08%) Git
3 24 (25.00%) GitLab
4 16 (16.67%) JIRA
5 9 (9.38%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.21%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (3.13%) JUnit
9 3 (3.13%) Selenium
10 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.08%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.04%) Gradle
11 1 (1.04%) Postman
11 1 (1.04%) Snyk
11 1 (1.04%) Travis CI
11 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 36 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.50%) Finance
4 11 (11.46%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.33%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Military
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Police
8 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Site Engineer
2 19 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (19.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (14.58%) Senior
4 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Architect
6 8 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Lead
6 8 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.63%) YAML
3 10 (10.42%) REST
4 5 (5.21%) JSON
4 5 (5.21%) Kafka
5 4 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.13%) ADO
6 3 (3.13%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.13%) SOAP
6 3 (3.13%) XML
7 2 (2.08%) EJB
7 2 (2.08%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.08%) HTML
7 2 (2.08%) HTML5
7 2 (2.08%) J2EE
7 2 (2.08%) J2SE
7 2 (2.08%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.08%) Play Framework
7 2 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) PKI
3 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.29%) Clustering
5 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.17%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.08%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.04%) CMDB
9 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 64 (66.67%) Linux
2 18 (18.75%) Unix
3 16 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (16.67%) Windows
4 11 (11.46%) Ubuntu
5 10 (10.42%) CentOS
5 10 (10.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.04%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 61 (63.54%) DevOps
3 46 (47.92%) Containerisation
4 45 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (42.71%) Configuration Management
6 29 (30.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 27 (28.13%) Agile
8 26 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (22.92%) Observability
10 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (15.63%) Incident Response
13 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
13 15 (15.63%) Test Automation
14 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
14 14 (14.58%) Microservices
15 12 (12.50%) Incident Management
15 12 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (68.75%) Python
2 48 (50.00%) Bash
3 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.54%) Java
5 10 (10.42%) Ruby
6 9 (9.38%) Perl
7 8 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.29%) SQL
9 5 (5.21%) Bicep
10 3 (3.13%) Go
11 2 (2.08%) C++
11 2 (2.08%) Scala
12 1 (1.04%) Jython
12 1 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.71%) Degree
4 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (14.58%) DV Cleared
5 11 (11.46%) RHCE
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.13%) CCNP
8 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.13%) OCA
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (3.13%) RHCA
8 3 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (57.29%) Docker
2 13 (13.54%) Active Directory
3 12 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.29%) BitLocker
5 7 (7.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (7.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.08%) GPFS
6 2 (2.08%) Lustre
6 2 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.08%) SRDF
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (92.71%) Ansible
2 50 (52.08%) Kubernetes
3 45 (46.88%) Terraform
4 31 (32.29%) Progress Chef
5 26 (27.08%) Grafana
6 20 (20.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.38%) Kibana
8 8 (8.33%) NetBackup
9 7 (7.29%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.29%) vMotion
10 6 (6.25%) Salt
11 4 (4.17%) Istio
12 3 (3.13%) Argo
12 3 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (3.13%) Podman
13 1 (1.04%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.04%) Consul
13 1 (1.04%) logstash
13 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 14 (14.58%) VMware
4 12 (12.50%) Splunk
5 8 (8.33%) PagerDuty
6 7 (7.29%) Citrix
6 7 (7.29%) Commvault
6 7 (7.29%) NetApp
6 7 (7.29%) Veritas
7 4 (4.17%) Broadcom
7 4 (4.17%) Databricks
7 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.13%) Dell
9 2 (2.08%) Cisco
9 2 (2.08%) Google
9 2 (2.08%) HP
9 2 (2.08%) New Relic
9 2 (2.08%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.08%) webMethods
10 1 (1.04%) SaltStack