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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 380 353
Rank change year-on-year -154 -27 -12
Contract jobs citing Puppet 95 146 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.88% 3.82% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 109 124
10th Percentile £400 £317 £450
25th Percentile £475 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £568
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -8.37% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £625
90th Percentile £735 £700 £684
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £557
% change year-on-year +9.52% -5.75% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.60 - -
25th Percentile £29.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £42.50 - £16.50
90th Percentile £46.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -79.49%

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 5,043 3,822 3,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.96% 13.87% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,529 2,742
10th Percentile £308 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.38% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 56
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £44.48 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% +16.27% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.27 £63.00
90th Percentile £87.42 £79.88 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +116.67% -21.57% -28.84%

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 7 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Puppet in England

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 7 September 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 -82 58 £530 +1.92% 103
South East -67 14 £650 +13.04% 12
Midlands -55 10 £600 +6.67% 1
West Midlands -48 8 £600 +6.67% 1
East of England -19 5 £400 +9.22% 6
South West -61 4 £575 -4.17% 22
North of England -97 3 £552 +38.00% 24
Yorkshire -68 2 £601 +50.25% 5
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -54 1 £500 +49.25% 17
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 7 (7.37%) JBoss
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 55 (57.89%) AWS
2 46 (48.42%) Azure
3 24 (25.26%) GitHub
4 21 (22.11%) GCP
5 20 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (17.89%) Datadog
7 14 (14.74%) Serverless
8 13 (13.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (11.58%) OpenShift
10 10 (10.53%) Amazon S3
10 10 (10.53%) IaaS
10 10 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
13 7 (7.37%) Azure AKS
14 6 (6.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.79%) DNS
1 15 (15.79%) Firewall
2 10 (10.53%) VPN
3 7 (7.37%) DHCP
3 7 (7.37%) Kerberos
3 7 (7.37%) Network Security
3 7 (7.37%) SSL
4 6 (6.32%) WAN
5 5 (5.26%) SMTP
6 4 (4.21%) MQTT
6 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.11%) BGP
7 2 (2.11%) MPLS
7 2 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.11%) SAN
8 1 (1.05%) IPv4
8 1 (1.05%) IPv6
8 1 (1.05%) NAS
8 1 (1.05%) OSPF
8 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) Big Data
1 11 (11.58%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.42%) Hadoop
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.21%) MySQL
6 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.11%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.05%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 39 (41.05%) GitLab
2 34 (35.79%) Jenkins
3 33 (34.74%) Git
4 8 (8.42%) Artifactory
4 8 (8.42%) SonarQube
5 7 (7.37%) JIRA
6 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.11%) Subversion
9 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.05%) Gradle
9 1 (1.05%) JUnit
9 1 (1.05%) Maven
9 1 (1.05%) Postman
9 1 (1.05%) Selenium
9 1 (1.05%) Snyk
9 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Publishing
7 2 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Police
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Site Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Administrator
10 5 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (64.21%) Terraform
2 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (10.53%) Kafka
4 8 (8.42%) Keycloak
4 8 (8.42%) YAML
5 7 (7.37%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.21%) gRPC
6 4 (4.21%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (4.21%) RESTful
7 3 (3.16%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.11%) ADO
8 2 (2.11%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.11%) JSON
8 2 (2.11%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (2.11%) Loki
8 2 (2.11%) Node.js
8 2 (2.11%) REST
9 1 (1.05%) Django
9 1 (1.05%) OAuth
9 1 (1.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.74%) Private Cloud
3 12 (12.63%) Clustering
4 9 (9.47%) PKI
4 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.05%) NHS
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (81.05%) Linux
2 36 (37.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (25.26%) Windows
4 13 (13.68%) Unix
5 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.32%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.26%) CentOS
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.05%) AIX
9 1 (1.05%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.11%) CI/CD
2 58 (61.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (58.95%) DevOps
4 48 (50.53%) Configuration Management
5 38 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 22 (23.16%) Agile
6 22 (23.16%) Observability
6 22 (23.16%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 19 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (16.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (16.84%) Task Automation
11 15 (15.79%) AI
11 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (15.79%) Microservices
12 14 (14.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (14.74%) Scrum
13 13 (13.68%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.95%) Python
2 52 (54.74%) Bash
3 40 (42.11%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.53%) Java
5 9 (9.47%) C++
6 8 (8.42%) Perl
7 7 (7.37%) C
7 7 (7.37%) Go
8 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.26%) Bicep
9 5 (5.26%) SQL
10 4 (4.21%) Rust
10 4 (4.21%) Scala
11 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
11 3 (3.16%) Ruby
12 2 (2.11%) Groovy
12 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 29 (30.53%) SC Cleared
3 22 (23.16%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.74%) Degree
5 10 (10.53%) AWS Certification
6 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.11%) CISSP
10 2 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.11%) SSCP
11 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.05%) CCIE
11 1 (1.05%) CCNP
11 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.11%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (47.37%) Docker
2 18 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.63%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.42%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.26%) BitLocker
5 5 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (3.16%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.11%) HDFS
7 2 (2.11%) NFS
7 2 (2.11%) Squid
7 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.05%) GPFS
8 1 (1.05%) Lustre
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.05%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (80.00%) Ansible
2 51 (53.68%) Kubernetes
3 39 (41.05%) Progress Chef
4 33 (34.74%) Prometheus
5 32 (33.68%) Grafana
6 8 (8.42%) vCenter Server
7 7 (7.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (5.26%) Podman
8 5 (5.26%) Salt
8 5 (5.26%) vMotion
9 4 (4.21%) Nagios
9 4 (4.21%) Packer
10 3 (3.16%) Argo
10 3 (3.16%) Istio
10 3 (3.16%) NetBackup
10 3 (3.16%) systemd
10 3 (3.16%) yum
11 2 (2.11%) Control-M
11 2 (2.11%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 23 (24.21%) Red Hat
2 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.05%) VMware
3 10 (10.53%) Google
3 10 (10.53%) SaltStack
4 8 (8.42%) Cisco
4 8 (8.42%) Splunk
5 6 (6.32%) Databricks
5 6 (6.32%) Tenable
6 5 (5.26%) Citrix
7 4 (4.21%) NetApp
7 4 (4.21%) NVIDIA
7 4 (4.21%) PagerDuty
8 3 (3.16%) HP
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle
8 3 (3.16%) Symantec
8 3 (3.16%) Veritas
9 2 (2.11%) EMC
9 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.11%) Informatica