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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 373 315
Rank change year-on-year -54 -58 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 117 134 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.44% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.36% 3.09% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 72 202
10th Percentile £374 £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 £588 £623 £660
90th Percentile £708 £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 4,960 4,341 5,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.02% 14.32% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,785 3,869
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £612 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 60 161
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.57 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £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 12 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 12 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 -33 39 £525 -5.83% 18
Midlands -11 27 £525 -1.87% 6
West Midlands -7 25 £550 +2.80% 3
North of England -42 21 £479 -21.23% 10
Yorkshire -32 20 £475 -22.76% 4
South East -19 11 £590 +19.19% 10
South West -19 8 £600 +5.26% 4
East of England - 8 £575 -
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 3
North West -23 1 £525 -12.50% 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 17 (14.53%) Apache
2 15 (12.82%) Confluence
3 8 (6.84%) JBoss
3 8 (6.84%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.13%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.42%) SAS
6 3 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.71%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.85%) CICS
8 1 (0.85%) IIS
8 1 (0.85%) Luigi
8 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Weka
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 69 (58.97%) AWS
2 36 (30.77%) Azure
3 33 (28.21%) GitHub
4 27 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (20.51%) GCP
6 21 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (17.09%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (16.24%) Amazon S3
9 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (8.55%) Serverless
12 9 (7.69%) Azure AKS
12 9 (7.69%) IaaS
13 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (5.98%) Datadog
13 7 (5.98%) OpenShift
13 7 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.53%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.26%) Firewall
3 10 (8.55%) DNS
4 4 (3.42%) HTTP
5 3 (2.56%) VPN
6 2 (1.71%) DHCP
6 2 (1.71%) Internet
6 2 (1.71%) Network Security
6 2 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.85%) FCoE
7 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.85%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.85%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.85%) LAN
7 1 (0.85%) MQTT
7 1 (0.85%) Multicast
7 1 (0.85%) NAS
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.97%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.40%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (9.40%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 9 (7.69%) MySQL
5 5 (4.27%) Apache Hive
5 5 (4.27%) HBase
6 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.56%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.85%) Big Data
9 1 (0.85%) CrateDB
9 1 (0.85%) MemSQL
9 1 (0.85%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 43 (36.75%) Git
2 40 (34.19%) Jenkins
3 30 (25.64%) GitLab
4 18 (15.38%) JIRA
5 14 (11.97%) Bitbucket
6 13 (11.11%) Selenium
7 12 (10.26%) JUnit
8 10 (8.55%) Postman
9 9 (7.69%) Artifactory
10 8 (6.84%) Eclipse
10 8 (6.84%) IntelliJ
10 8 (6.84%) SonarQube
11 7 (5.98%) Gradle
11 7 (5.98%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (5.13%) Cypress.io
12 6 (5.13%) Maven
13 5 (4.27%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.42%) Snyk
14 4 (3.42%) webpack
15 3 (2.56%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Finance
3 13 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.71%) Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Electronics
8 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.53%) Site Engineer
3 15 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (10.26%) Senior
5 10 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Splunk Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Administrator
9 6 (5.13%) Developer
10 5 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (4.27%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.37%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (15.38%) REST
3 13 (11.11%) JSON
4 9 (7.69%) XML
5 8 (6.84%) EJB
5 8 (6.84%) Hibernate
5 8 (6.84%) HTML
5 8 (6.84%) HTML5
5 8 (6.84%) J2EE
5 8 (6.84%) J2SE
5 8 (6.84%) Play Framework
5 8 (6.84%) SOAP
5 8 (6.84%) Spring
6 7 (5.98%) YAML
7 5 (4.27%) Kafka
7 5 (4.27%) Node.js
7 5 (4.27%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.56%) LAMP
8 3 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.13%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.56%) Blog
7 2 (1.71%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.71%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Clustering
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.85%) IVR
8 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (58.12%) Linux
2 29 (24.79%) Unix
3 18 (15.38%) Windows
4 9 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.84%) CentOS
6 6 (5.13%) Windows Server
7 5 (4.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.56%) Debian
9 1 (0.85%) MVS
9 1 (0.85%) Solaris
9 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) DevOps
2 66 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 61 (52.14%) Configuration Management
4 55 (47.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 42 (35.90%) Agile
7 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (17.95%) Software Engineering
10 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (17.09%) Migration
11 18 (15.38%) Scrum
12 17 (14.53%) Computer Science
12 17 (14.53%) Deployment Automation
13 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (13.68%) Microservices
14 14 (11.97%) Continuous Delivery
14 14 (11.97%) Incident Response
14 14 (11.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 79 (67.52%) Python
2 45 (38.46%) Bash
3 19 (16.24%) Java
4 17 (14.53%) Shell Script
4 17 (14.53%) SQL
5 13 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.55%) Scala
7 8 (6.84%) Go
8 7 (5.98%) C++
9 6 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 5 (4.27%) Perl
10 5 (4.27%) PHP
11 4 (3.42%) Groovy
12 2 (1.71%) C#
13 1 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.24%) Degree
3 14 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.55%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.13%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.42%) RHCE
7 4 (3.42%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.56%) CCNA
8 3 (2.56%) CCNP
8 3 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) QA
2 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (56.41%) Docker
2 17 (14.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.27%) HDFS
3 5 (4.27%) KVM
4 4 (3.42%) GPFS
4 4 (3.42%) Lustre
4 4 (3.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.71%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.85%) NFS
7 1 (0.85%) SRDF
7 1 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (78.63%) Ansible
2 64 (54.70%) Terraform
3 47 (40.17%) Kubernetes
4 35 (29.91%) Progress Chef
5 24 (20.51%) Grafana
6 18 (15.38%) Prometheus
7 9 (7.69%) Kibana
7 9 (7.69%) Salt
8 8 (6.84%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.13%) Podman
10 5 (4.27%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (3.42%) Istio
11 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (2.56%) Ambari
12 3 (2.56%) Nagios
12 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.56%) SCCM
12 3 (2.56%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.56%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.71%) Icinga
Vendors
1 19 (16.24%) Splunk
2 18 (15.38%) VMware
3 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.40%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.84%) Commvault
5 8 (6.84%) MuleSoft
5 8 (6.84%) PagerDuty
5 8 (6.84%) webMethods
6 5 (4.27%) Google
6 5 (4.27%) Oracle
6 5 (4.27%) SnapLogic
7 3 (2.56%) Cisco
7 3 (2.56%) Rackspace
7 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.71%) Dell
8 2 (1.71%) IBM
8 2 (1.71%) New Relic
8 2 (1.71%) SAP
8 2 (1.71%) Tenable
8 2 (1.71%) Zend