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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 305 372
Rank change year-on-year -175 +67 -46
Contract jobs citing Puppet 97 171 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.70% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.76% 4.46% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 126 129
10th Percentile £430 £375 £411
25th Percentile £500 £440 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £573 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -6.88%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £688
90th Percentile £663 £688 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £573 £582
% change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -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 5,514 3,834 4,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.11% 15.72% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,811 2,653 3,178
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 37 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.99 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.25 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.30 £77.98 £69.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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 14 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 14 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 -104 35 £575 +9.52% 6
North of England -77 20 £500 +23.46% 7
Midlands -51 19 £525 +61.04% 4
Yorkshire -56 19 £500 +20.48% 1
West Midlands -48 15 £495 - 3
South East -62 10 £650 +13.04% 5
South West -67 7 £553 -7.92% 8
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -30 2 £625 +13.64% 4
North West -40 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 (14.43%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) JBoss
2 4 (4.12%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.03%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Weka
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) AWS
2 29 (29.90%) Azure
3 22 (22.68%) GitHub
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (16.49%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (15.46%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.46%) IaaS
8 13 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (13.40%) GCP
8 13 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (13.40%) Serverless
9 11 (11.34%) Azure AKS
10 8 (8.25%) CloudBees
11 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.22%) Entra ID
11 7 (7.22%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.22%) PaaS
12 6 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Firewall
1 12 (12.37%) VPN
2 9 (9.28%) DNS
3 7 (7.22%) DHCP
3 7 (7.22%) SMTP
4 5 (5.15%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.12%) Network Security
5 4 (4.12%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.06%) HTTP
6 2 (2.06%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.06%) SAN
7 1 (1.03%) Internet
7 1 (1.03%) MQTT
7 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.06%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (31.96%) Jenkins
2 29 (29.90%) Git
3 23 (23.71%) GitLab
4 16 (16.49%) JIRA
5 10 (10.31%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.25%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.15%) JUnit
7 5 (5.15%) Selenium
7 5 (5.15%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.12%) Eclipse
8 4 (4.12%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.06%) Gradle
10 1 (1.03%) CMake
10 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.03%) Introscope
10 1 (1.03%) Maven
10 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 11 (11.34%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.25%) Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Military
9 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Law
9 2 (2.06%) Police
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Site Engineer
2 19 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (18.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Lead
7 8 (8.25%) Splunk Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Architect
8 7 (7.22%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.46%) YAML
3 12 (12.37%) REST
4 7 (7.22%) JSON
5 5 (5.15%) Kafka
5 5 (5.15%) SOAP
5 5 (5.15%) XML
6 4 (4.12%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.12%) EJB
6 4 (4.12%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.12%) HTML
6 4 (4.12%) HTML5
6 4 (4.12%) J2EE
6 4 (4.12%) J2SE
6 4 (4.12%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.12%) Spring
7 3 (3.09%) ADO
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.06%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) PKI
3 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.22%) Clustering
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.06%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) CMDB
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.03%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) PMI
8 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 61 (62.89%) Linux
2 20 (20.62%) Unix
3 16 (16.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (16.49%) Windows
4 10 (10.31%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.28%) CentOS
6 7 (7.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.98%) CI/CD
2 62 (63.92%) DevOps
3 44 (45.36%) Containerisation
3 44 (45.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (41.24%) Configuration Management
5 28 (28.87%) Agile
5 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (27.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (21.65%) Observability
8 20 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (18.56%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Automation
10 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (17.53%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.49%) Microservices
12 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
13 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
13 14 (14.43%) Incident Response
14 12 (12.37%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (67.01%) Python
2 47 (48.45%) Bash
3 19 (19.59%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.46%) Java
5 9 (9.28%) Ruby
6 8 (8.25%) Perl
6 8 (8.25%) Shell Script
6 8 (8.25%) SQL
7 5 (5.15%) Bicep
8 4 (4.12%) Scala
9 2 (2.06%) Go
10 1 (1.03%) C++
10 1 (1.03%) Groovy
10 1 (1.03%) Jython
10 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) Degree
4 14 (14.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (13.40%) DV Cleared
6 11 (11.34%) RHCE
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.09%) CCNP
9 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.09%) OCA
9 3 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.09%) RHCA
9 3 (3.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (57.73%) Docker
2 13 (13.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.25%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.22%) BitLocker
5 7 (7.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.06%) GPFS
6 2 (2.06%) Lustre
6 2 (2.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.06%) SRDF
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (89.69%) Ansible
2 49 (50.52%) Kubernetes
3 42 (43.30%) Terraform
4 30 (30.93%) Progress Chef
5 25 (25.77%) Grafana
6 19 (19.59%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.28%) Kibana
8 8 (8.25%) NetBackup
9 7 (7.22%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.22%) vMotion
10 6 (6.19%) Salt
11 4 (4.12%) Istio
12 3 (3.09%) Argo
12 3 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (3.09%) Podman
13 1 (1.03%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.03%) logstash
13 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.53%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.40%) VMware
4 11 (11.34%) Splunk
5 8 (8.25%) PagerDuty
6 7 (7.22%) Citrix
6 7 (7.22%) Commvault
6 7 (7.22%) NetApp
6 7 (7.22%) Veritas
7 4 (4.12%) Broadcom
7 4 (4.12%) Databricks
7 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.12%) webMethods
8 3 (3.09%) Dell
9 2 (2.06%) Cisco
9 2 (2.06%) Google
9 2 (2.06%) HP
9 2 (2.06%) New Relic
9 2 (2.06%) TOWER Software
10 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow