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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 369 320
Rank change year-on-year -64 -49 -39
Contract jobs citing Puppet 115 131 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 3.34% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 68 177
10th Percentile £437 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £675
90th Percentile £692 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £585 £561
% change year-on-year -9.40% +4.23% -6.46%
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 5,093 3,918 4,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 14.60% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,540 2,536 3,440
10th Percentile £312 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £526 £536
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -2.00% -8.72%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 51 153
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.35
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% +13.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £77.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +19.95%

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 22 January 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 22 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
London -46 35 £530 -4.93% 10
Midlands -18 34 £538 +7.50% 2
West Midlands -15 32 £550 +10.00% 1
North of England -60 23 £523 -10.30% 3
Yorkshire -39 22 £520 -9.96%
South East -29 14 £590 +22.92% 10
South West -31 5 £575 -6.50% 6
East of England -14 4 £619 +3.13% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
North West -38 1 £525 -12.50% 1
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 (11.30%) Apache
2 10 (8.70%) Confluence
3 8 (6.96%) JBoss
3 8 (6.96%) WebLogic
4 7 (6.09%) OpenStack
5 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
6 4 (3.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.87%) CICS
7 1 (0.87%) IIS
7 1 (0.87%) Luigi
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Weka
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 63 (54.78%) AWS
2 35 (30.43%) Azure
3 29 (25.22%) GitHub
4 25 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (20.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (19.13%) GCP
7 20 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (17.39%) Amazon S3
8 16 (13.91%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (11.30%) Serverless
11 12 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (10.43%) IaaS
12 11 (9.57%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (8.70%) Azure AKS
14 9 (7.83%) Datadog
15 8 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (6.96%) OpenShift
16 7 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.83%) DNS
1 9 (7.83%) Firewall
1 9 (7.83%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.96%) VPN
3 5 (4.35%) DHCP
4 4 (3.48%) Network Security
5 3 (2.61%) HTTP
5 3 (2.61%) SMTP
6 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.87%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.87%) Internet
7 1 (0.87%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.87%) LAN
7 1 (0.87%) MQTT
7 1 (0.87%) Multicast
7 1 (0.87%) NAS
7 1 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.87%) SAN
7 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (13.91%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.09%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.35%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.35%) HBase
7 5 (4.35%) MySQL
7 5 (4.35%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.74%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.87%) ArangoDB
11 1 (0.87%) Azkaban
11 1 (0.87%) MemSQL
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.87%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 30 (26.09%) Git
2 26 (22.61%) Jenkins
3 23 (20.00%) GitLab
4 13 (11.30%) JIRA
4 13 (11.30%) JUnit
4 13 (11.30%) Selenium
5 10 (8.70%) Bitbucket
6 8 (6.96%) Artifactory
6 8 (6.96%) Eclipse
6 8 (6.96%) Gradle
6 8 (6.96%) IntelliJ
6 8 (6.96%) SonarQube
6 8 (6.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (6.09%) Cypress.io
7 7 (6.09%) Maven
8 6 (5.22%) CircleCI
8 6 (5.22%) Postman
9 5 (4.35%) Snyk
9 5 (4.35%) webpack
10 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.30%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.83%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (23.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) Site Engineer
3 24 (20.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Splunk Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Senior
8 6 (5.22%) Architect
8 6 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) NetApp Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Storage Engineer
11 2 (1.74%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.35%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (15.65%) REST
3 16 (13.91%) YAML
4 14 (12.17%) JSON
5 9 (7.83%) XML
6 8 (6.96%) EJB
6 8 (6.96%) Hibernate
6 8 (6.96%) HTML
6 8 (6.96%) HTML5
6 8 (6.96%) J2EE
6 8 (6.96%) J2SE
6 8 (6.96%) Play Framework
6 8 (6.96%) SOAP
6 8 (6.96%) Spring
7 5 (4.35%) Kafka
7 5 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (2.61%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.61%) Node.js
8 3 (2.61%) RESTful
9 2 (1.74%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.09%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.09%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) Clustering
5 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) PKI
6 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.74%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) IVR
8 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 74 (64.35%) Linux
2 28 (24.35%) Unix
3 14 (12.17%) Windows
4 12 (10.43%) CentOS
4 12 (10.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.87%) MVS
8 1 (0.87%) Solaris
8 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.09%) DevOps
2 68 (59.13%) CI/CD
3 55 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 52 (45.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (44.35%) Configuration Management
6 41 (35.65%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (29.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (27.83%) Agile
9 31 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (23.48%) Observability
11 22 (19.13%) Computer Science
12 21 (18.26%) Software Engineering
13 20 (17.39%) Incident Response
14 19 (16.52%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (16.52%) Migration
15 18 (15.65%) Microservices
16 17 (14.78%) Change Management
17 16 (13.91%) Continuous Delivery
17 16 (13.91%) Task Automation
18 15 (13.04%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 77 (66.96%) Python
2 47 (40.87%) Bash
3 19 (16.52%) Java
4 18 (15.65%) SQL
5 12 (10.43%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.57%) Perl
6 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.83%) Ruby
7 9 (7.83%) Scala
8 3 (2.61%) Go
9 2 (1.74%) C++
9 2 (1.74%) Groovy
9 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) Degree
3 19 (16.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (12.17%) SC Cleared
5 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.43%) RHCE
6 6 (5.22%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.48%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) QA
2 2 (1.74%) SLA
3 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 69 (60.00%) Docker
2 10 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.96%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.35%) HDFS
4 5 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.35%) KVM
5 4 (3.48%) GPFS
5 4 (3.48%) Lustre
5 4 (3.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (2.61%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.87%) NFS
7 1 (0.87%) SRDF
7 1 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.87%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (83.48%) Ansible
2 56 (48.70%) Kubernetes
3 54 (46.96%) Terraform
4 30 (26.09%) Progress Chef
5 26 (22.61%) Grafana
6 19 (16.52%) Prometheus
7 15 (13.04%) Kibana
8 8 (6.96%) NetBackup
9 7 (6.09%) Podman
10 5 (4.35%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (4.35%) Salt
11 4 (3.48%) Istio
12 3 (2.61%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.61%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.61%) vMotion
13 2 (1.74%) Argo
14 1 (0.87%) Consul
14 1 (0.87%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Splunk
2 18 (15.65%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.70%) VMware
5 8 (6.96%) Commvault
5 8 (6.96%) PagerDuty
5 8 (6.96%) webMethods
6 6 (5.22%) Google
7 5 (4.35%) SnapLogic
8 4 (3.48%) NetApp
9 3 (2.61%) Citrix
9 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.74%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.74%) Dell
10 2 (1.74%) New Relic
10 2 (1.74%) Oracle
10 2 (1.74%) Tenable
11 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.87%) F5
11 1 (0.87%) Fortinet