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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 307 357
Rank change year-on-year -167 +50 -29
Contract jobs citing Puppet 103 168 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.87% 4.34% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 112 140
10th Percentile £432 £375 £413
25th Percentile £500 £440 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £582
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -5.50% -6.88%
75th Percentile £594 £623 £688
90th Percentile £645 £673 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -4.17%
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% -33.57%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +35.71% -2.10%

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 5,501 3,872 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.69% 15.81% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,806 2,622 3,264
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 39 133
10th Percentile £19.65 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -15.87% -41.86%
75th Percentile £68.13 £61.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £77.74 £69.73
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -94 31 £575 +9.52% 5
North of England -72 25 £500 +17.65% 4
Yorkshire -46 24 £500 +17.65% 1
Midlands -46 22 £525 +27.12% 3
West Midlands -48 18 £550 +10.00% 2
South East -55 10 £650 +33.33% 8
South West -57 7 £553 -7.92% 6
East of England -20 4 £619 +12.50%
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +61.04% 1
North West -39 1 £300 -33.48% 2
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 18 (17.48%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) JBoss
2 4 (3.88%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.88%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.97%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
3 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Weka
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.75%) AWS
2 29 (28.16%) Azure
3 28 (27.18%) GitHub
4 19 (18.45%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (14.56%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (14.56%) Amazon S3
6 14 (13.59%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (13.59%) GCP
6 14 (13.59%) IaaS
7 13 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (11.65%) Serverless
9 11 (10.68%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.77%) CloudBees
10 8 (7.77%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.83%) PaaS
13 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.65%) VPN
2 9 (8.74%) DNS
2 9 (8.74%) Firewall
3 6 (5.83%) DHCP
3 6 (5.83%) SMTP
3 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.88%) Network Security
5 2 (1.94%) HTTP
5 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.94%) SAN
6 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.97%) Internet
6 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.97%) MQTT
6 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (12.62%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (32.04%) Jenkins
2 28 (27.18%) Git
3 21 (20.39%) JIRA
4 20 (19.42%) GitLab
5 10 (9.71%) Bitbucket
6 9 (8.74%) Artifactory
7 6 (5.83%) JUnit
7 6 (5.83%) Selenium
7 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.88%) Eclipse
8 4 (3.88%) Gradle
8 4 (3.88%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.91%) Maven
10 2 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.94%) Postman
10 2 (1.94%) Snyk
10 2 (1.94%) webpack
General
1 39 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Finance
3 12 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.71%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) Site Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) Senior
5 11 (10.68%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Splunk Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Architect
8 7 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) NetApp Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Storage Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.91%) DevOps Architect
11 3 (2.91%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.36%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (14.56%) REST
2 15 (14.56%) YAML
3 8 (7.77%) JSON
4 5 (4.85%) SOAP
4 5 (4.85%) XML
5 4 (3.88%) EJB
5 4 (3.88%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.88%) HTML
5 4 (3.88%) HTML5
5 4 (3.88%) J2EE
5 4 (3.88%) J2SE
5 4 (3.88%) Kafka
5 4 (3.88%) Play Framework
5 4 (3.88%) Spring
6 3 (2.91%) ADO
6 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.91%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.94%) Loki
7 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.71%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (6.80%) PKI
4 6 (5.83%) Clustering
5 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.94%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.97%) CMDB
8 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 64 (62.14%) Linux
2 22 (21.36%) Unix
3 16 (15.53%) Windows
4 15 (14.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.71%) Windows Server
6 9 (8.74%) CentOS
6 9 (8.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.83%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.97%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.02%) DevOps
2 62 (60.19%) CI/CD
3 46 (44.66%) Configuration Management
4 45 (43.69%) Containerisation
5 42 (40.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (29.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (28.16%) Agile
8 23 (22.33%) Observability
9 21 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
12 17 (16.50%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (16.50%) Incident Response
13 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
14 15 (14.56%) Data Protection
14 15 (14.56%) Microservices
15 13 (12.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (68.93%) Python
2 51 (49.51%) Bash
3 17 (16.50%) PowerShell
4 16 (15.53%) Java
5 10 (9.71%) Ruby
6 9 (8.74%) Perl
6 9 (8.74%) SQL
7 8 (7.77%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.88%) Bicep
8 4 (3.88%) Scala
9 2 (1.94%) C++
9 2 (1.94%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) Groovy
10 1 (0.97%) Jython
10 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.48%) Degree
3 17 (16.50%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (12.62%) DV Cleared
6 11 (10.68%) RHCE
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.91%) CCNP
9 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.91%) OCA
9 3 (2.91%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.91%) RHCA
9 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (55.34%) Docker
2 11 (10.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.80%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.83%) BitLocker
5 6 (5.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.88%) GPFS
6 4 (3.88%) Lustre
6 4 (3.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.94%) SRDF
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (90.29%) Ansible
2 50 (48.54%) Kubernetes
3 41 (39.81%) Terraform
4 33 (32.04%) Progress Chef
5 23 (22.33%) Grafana
6 18 (17.48%) Prometheus
7 12 (11.65%) NetBackup
8 11 (10.68%) Kibana
9 6 (5.83%) Salt
9 6 (5.83%) vCenter Server
9 6 (5.83%) vMotion
10 4 (3.88%) Istio
10 4 (3.88%) Podman
11 3 (2.91%) Argo
11 3 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.97%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.97%) Consul
12 1 (0.97%) logstash
12 1 (0.97%) Nagios
12 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Red Hat
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 15 (14.56%) Splunk
4 12 (11.65%) VMware
5 11 (10.68%) Commvault
6 8 (7.77%) PagerDuty
7 7 (6.80%) Veritas
8 6 (5.83%) Citrix
8 6 (5.83%) NetApp
9 4 (3.88%) Broadcom
9 4 (3.88%) webMethods
10 3 (2.91%) Databricks
10 3 (2.91%) Dell
11 2 (1.94%) Cisco
11 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.94%) Google
11 2 (1.94%) HP
11 2 (1.94%) New Relic
11 2 (1.94%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.94%) TOWER Software