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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 356 324
Rank change year-on-year -95 -32 -24
Contract jobs citing Puppet 109 132 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 3.37% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 72 173
10th Percentile £431 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +4.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £660
90th Percentile £725 £698 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -9.40% +4.46% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.45 £55.78
25th Percentile - £35.38 £70.06
Median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.85% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £75.38 -
90th Percentile - £87.15 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year - -27.45% +17.69%

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 5,141 3,912 4,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.64% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,565 2,535 3,443
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 48 150
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.40 £14.68
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.74 £21.44
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +0.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.36 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +16.80%

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 29 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 29 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
Midlands -25 34 £538 +7.50% 3
West Midlands -6 32 £550 +10.00% 2
London -53 29 £540 -1.82% 10
North of England -61 23 £523 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire -41 22 £520 -9.17%
South East -27 13 £650 +35.42% 13
South West -35 5 £575 -6.50% 5
East of England -9 4 £619 +3.13% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
North West -33 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 (11.93%) Apache
2 10 (9.17%) Confluence
3 8 (7.34%) JBoss
3 8 (7.34%) WebLogic
4 7 (6.42%) OpenStack
5 6 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (5.50%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.92%) CICS
7 1 (0.92%) IIS
7 1 (0.92%) Luigi
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 1 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.05%) AWS
2 33 (30.28%) Azure
3 25 (22.94%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (21.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (21.10%) GitHub
5 19 (17.43%) GCP
6 18 (16.51%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (16.51%) Amazon S3
7 16 (14.68%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (11.01%) IaaS
8 12 (11.01%) Serverless
9 11 (10.09%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (9.17%) Azure AKS
11 8 (7.34%) Datadog
11 8 (7.34%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Firewall
1 9 (8.26%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.34%) DNS
2 8 (7.34%) VPN
3 5 (4.59%) DHCP
4 4 (3.67%) Network Security
5 3 (2.75%) SMTP
6 2 (1.83%) HTTP
6 2 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) FCoE
7 1 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.92%) Internet
7 1 (0.92%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.92%) LAN
7 1 (0.92%) NAS
7 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.92%) SAN
7 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.43%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (13.76%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (11.01%) SQL Server
5 10 (9.17%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.42%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.59%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.59%) HBase
7 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.67%) MySQL
9 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.83%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.92%) ArangoDB
11 1 (0.92%) CrateDB
11 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (27.52%) Git
2 26 (23.85%) Jenkins
3 20 (18.35%) GitLab
4 13 (11.93%) JIRA
4 13 (11.93%) JUnit
4 13 (11.93%) Selenium
5 10 (9.17%) Bitbucket
6 8 (7.34%) Artifactory
6 8 (7.34%) Eclipse
6 8 (7.34%) IntelliJ
6 8 (7.34%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (6.42%) Gradle
8 6 (5.50%) CircleCI
8 6 (5.50%) Maven
8 6 (5.50%) Postman
9 5 (4.59%) Cypress.io
9 5 (4.59%) Snyk
9 5 (4.59%) webpack
10 1 (0.92%) CMake
General
1 41 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Finance
4 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (7.34%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) DevOps Engineer
1 26 (23.85%) Site Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (12.84%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 7 (6.42%) Senior
7 6 (5.50%) Architect
8 5 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Hadoop Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) NetApp Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Storage Engineer
11 2 (1.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (16.51%) REST
3 14 (12.84%) JSON
3 14 (12.84%) YAML
4 9 (8.26%) XML
5 8 (7.34%) EJB
5 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.34%) HTML
5 8 (7.34%) HTML5
5 8 (7.34%) J2EE
5 8 (7.34%) J2SE
5 8 (7.34%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.34%) SOAP
5 8 (7.34%) Spring
6 5 (4.59%) Kafka
6 5 (4.59%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (2.75%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.83%) LDAP
8 2 (1.83%) Loki
8 2 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Management Information System
2 14 (12.84%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.67%) Clustering
5 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
6 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) CMDB
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.92%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 72 (66.06%) Linux
2 28 (25.69%) Unix
3 12 (11.01%) CentOS
3 12 (11.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (11.01%) Windows
4 10 (9.17%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.75%) 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 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
3 52 (47.71%) Containerisation
4 49 (44.95%) Configuration Management
4 49 (44.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (35.78%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (31.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (28.44%) Agile
8 30 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (23.85%) Observability
10 22 (20.18%) Computer Science
11 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.43%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (17.43%) Incident Response
12 19 (17.43%) Migration
13 17 (15.60%) Change Management
14 16 (14.68%) Continuous Delivery
14 16 (14.68%) Task Automation
15 15 (13.76%) Microservices
15 15 (13.76%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 73 (66.97%) Python
2 46 (42.20%) Bash
3 19 (17.43%) Java
4 16 (14.68%) SQL
5 12 (11.01%) Shell Script
6 11 (10.09%) Perl
7 9 (8.26%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.26%) Ruby
7 9 (8.26%) Scala
8 3 (2.75%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) C++
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.02%) Degree
3 19 (17.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
5 12 (11.01%) DV Cleared
5 12 (11.01%) RHCE
6 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.67%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 65 (59.63%) Docker
2 10 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.34%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.59%) HDFS
4 5 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.59%) KVM
5 4 (3.67%) GPFS
5 4 (3.67%) Lustre
5 4 (3.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.92%) NFS
7 1 (0.92%) SRDF
7 1 (0.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (84.40%) Ansible
2 52 (47.71%) Kubernetes
3 48 (44.04%) Terraform
4 29 (26.61%) Progress Chef
5 24 (22.02%) Grafana
6 18 (16.51%) Prometheus
7 15 (13.76%) Kibana
8 7 (6.42%) NetBackup
8 7 (6.42%) Podman
9 5 (4.59%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (4.59%) Salt
10 3 (2.75%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (2.75%) Istio
10 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.75%) vMotion
11 2 (1.83%) Argo
12 1 (0.92%) Ambari
12 1 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) Splunk
2 18 (16.51%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.17%) VMware
5 8 (7.34%) PagerDuty
5 8 (7.34%) webMethods
6 7 (6.42%) Commvault
7 4 (3.67%) NetApp
7 4 (3.67%) SnapLogic
8 3 (2.75%) Citrix
8 3 (2.75%) Google
9 2 (1.83%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.83%) Dell
9 2 (1.83%) New Relic
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
9 2 (1.83%) Tenable
10 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.92%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.92%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.92%) Zoomdata