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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 370 325
Rank change year-on-year -47 -45 -52
Contract jobs citing Puppet 121 135 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.44% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.41% 3.07% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 72 202
10th Percentile £371 £401 £413
25th Percentile £463 £473 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £561
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.67% -6.46%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £660
90th Percentile £731 £650 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -4.98% +0.45% -8.33%
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 5,015 4,395 5,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.09% 14.32% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,411 2,823 3,839
10th Percentile £308 £313 £302
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -3.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 60 161
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.80 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

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 5 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 5 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 -26 40 £525 -5.83% 14
Midlands -7 27 £525 -1.87% 20
West Midlands -7 25 £550 +2.80% 11
North of England -44 21 £475 -21.81% 24
Yorkshire -22 20 £475 -22.76% 10
South West -11 11 £613 +7.46% 12
South East -14 11 £590 +19.19% 28
East of England - 8 £575 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 8
North West -28 1 £525 -12.50% 11
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 17 (14.05%) Apache
2 14 (11.57%) Confluence
3 8 (6.61%) JBoss
3 8 (6.61%) WebLogic
4 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.96%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.96%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.31%) SAS
6 3 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.83%) CICS
8 1 (0.83%) IIS
8 1 (0.83%) Luigi
8 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 72 (59.50%) AWS
2 36 (29.75%) GitHub
3 35 (28.93%) Azure
4 28 (23.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (19.01%) GCP
6 22 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (16.53%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (15.70%) Amazon S3
9 16 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (10.74%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (8.26%) Serverless
13 9 (7.44%) Azure AKS
13 9 (7.44%) IaaS
14 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (5.79%) Datadog
14 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
14 7 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.05%) TCP/IP
2 13 (10.74%) Firewall
3 10 (8.26%) DNS
4 3 (2.48%) DHCP
4 3 (2.48%) HTTP
4 3 (2.48%) VPN
5 2 (1.65%) Internet
5 2 (1.65%) Network Security
5 2 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.83%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.83%) FCoE
6 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.83%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.83%) MQTT
6 1 (0.83%) Multicast
6 1 (0.83%) NAS
6 1 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.05%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (7.44%) Hadoop
5 9 (7.44%) MySQL
6 5 (4.13%) Apache Hive
6 5 (4.13%) HBase
7 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.48%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.83%) AllegroGraph
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.83%) Azkaban
10 1 (0.83%) CrateDB
10 1 (0.83%) MemSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (34.71%) Git
2 41 (33.88%) Jenkins
3 32 (26.45%) GitLab
4 17 (14.05%) JIRA
5 14 (11.57%) Bitbucket
6 13 (10.74%) Selenium
7 12 (9.92%) JUnit
8 11 (9.09%) Postman
9 9 (7.44%) Artifactory
10 8 (6.61%) Eclipse
10 8 (6.61%) IntelliJ
10 8 (6.61%) SonarQube
11 7 (5.79%) Gradle
11 7 (5.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (4.96%) Cypress.io
12 6 (4.96%) Maven
13 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.31%) Snyk
13 4 (3.31%) webpack
14 3 (2.48%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Finance
3 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.79%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Electronics
8 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.65%) Marketing
8 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Site Engineer
3 15 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Senior
6 8 (6.61%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Splunk Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Administrator
8 6 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (2.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.83%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (14.88%) REST
3 13 (10.74%) JSON
4 8 (6.61%) EJB
4 8 (6.61%) Hibernate
4 8 (6.61%) HTML
4 8 (6.61%) HTML5
4 8 (6.61%) J2EE
4 8 (6.61%) J2SE
4 8 (6.61%) Play Framework
4 8 (6.61%) SOAP
4 8 (6.61%) Spring
4 8 (6.61%) XML
5 7 (5.79%) YAML
6 5 (4.13%) Kafka
6 5 (4.13%) Node.js
6 5 (4.13%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (2.48%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.48%) LAMP
7 3 (2.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.96%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.48%) Blog
7 2 (1.65%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.65%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.83%) Clustering
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) IVR
8 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 72 (59.50%) Linux
2 31 (25.62%) Unix
3 18 (14.88%) Windows
4 10 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (7.44%) CentOS
6 6 (4.96%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.96%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.48%) Debian
8 1 (0.83%) MVS
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.83%) Solaris
8 1 (0.83%) SUSE
8 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.81%) DevOps
2 68 (56.20%) CI/CD
3 63 (52.07%) Configuration Management
4 58 (47.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (42.98%) Containerisation
6 41 (33.88%) Agile
7 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 23 (19.01%) Migration
10 21 (17.36%) Software Engineering
11 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (16.53%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (14.05%) Computer Science
12 17 (14.05%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (14.05%) Scrum
13 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (13.22%) Mentoring
13 16 (13.22%) Microservices
14 14 (11.57%) Continuous Delivery
14 14 (11.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 80 (66.12%) Python
2 46 (38.02%) Bash
3 19 (15.70%) Java
4 17 (14.05%) Shell Script
4 17 (14.05%) SQL
5 12 (9.92%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.26%) Scala
7 8 (6.61%) Go
8 7 (5.79%) C++
9 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
10 5 (4.13%) Perl
10 5 (4.13%) PHP
11 4 (3.31%) Groovy
12 2 (1.65%) C#
13 1 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) Degree
3 14 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.26%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.79%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.31%) RHCE
7 4 (3.31%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.48%) CCNA
8 3 (2.48%) CCNP
8 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (54.55%) Docker
2 18 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.13%) HDFS
3 5 (4.13%) KVM
4 4 (3.31%) GPFS
4 4 (3.31%) Lustre
4 4 (3.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (3.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.65%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.83%) iptables
7 1 (0.83%) NFS
7 1 (0.83%) SRDF
7 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (76.86%) Ansible
2 67 (55.37%) Terraform
3 47 (38.84%) Kubernetes
4 35 (28.93%) Progress Chef
5 23 (19.01%) Grafana
6 17 (14.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (7.44%) Salt
8 8 (6.61%) Kibana
8 8 (6.61%) NetBackup
9 6 (4.96%) Podman
10 5 (4.13%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (3.31%) Istio
11 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (2.48%) Ambari
12 3 (2.48%) Nagios
12 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.48%) SCCM
12 3 (2.48%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.48%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.65%) Icinga
Vendors
1 19 (15.70%) VMware
2 18 (14.88%) Splunk
3 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
4 12 (9.92%) Red Hat
5 9 (7.44%) MuleSoft
6 8 (6.61%) Commvault
6 8 (6.61%) PagerDuty
6 8 (6.61%) webMethods
7 6 (4.96%) Oracle
8 5 (4.13%) Google
8 5 (4.13%) SnapLogic
9 3 (2.48%) Cisco
9 3 (2.48%) Rackspace
9 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.65%) Dell
10 2 (1.65%) IBM
10 2 (1.65%) New Relic
10 2 (1.65%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.65%) SAP
10 2 (1.65%) Zend