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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 350 351
Rank change year-on-year -168 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Puppet 106 165 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.59% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.75% 3.85% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 122 131
10th Percentile £400 £358 £450
25th Percentile £475 £440 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -4.98% -10.16%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £631
90th Percentile £735 £723 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 - £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 6,069 4,291 4,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.44% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,131 2,856 3,199
10th Percentile £325 £301 £310
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 61 68
10th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -97 58 £530 +0.95% 79
South East -60 15 £650 +13.04% 15
Midlands -40 10 £600 +9.09% 3
North of England -88 10 £500 +26.58% 25
West Midlands -47 8 £600 +9.09% 3
Yorkshire -53 8 £500 +26.58% 5
South West -60 6 £553 -7.92% 22
East of England -23 5 £400 -22.52% 4
East Midlands -15 2 - -
North West -39 2 £400 +19.40% 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 9 (8.49%) Confluence
2 7 (6.60%) JBoss
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.83%) Apache
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.94%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.94%) nginx
6 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.83%) AWS
2 47 (44.34%) Azure
3 28 (26.42%) GitHub
4 21 (19.81%) GCP
5 20 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.04%) Datadog
7 16 (15.09%) Serverless
8 13 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (11.32%) OpenShift
10 11 (10.38%) Amazon S3
10 11 (10.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (9.43%) IaaS
12 9 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (8.49%) Entra ID
13 7 (6.60%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.04%) Firewall
2 14 (13.21%) DNS
3 12 (11.32%) VPN
4 8 (7.55%) SSL
5 7 (6.60%) DHCP
5 7 (6.60%) Kerberos
5 7 (6.60%) Network Security
6 6 (5.66%) SMTP
6 6 (5.66%) WAN
7 4 (3.77%) MQTT
8 3 (2.83%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.83%) SAN
8 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.89%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.94%) BGP
10 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.94%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.94%) MPLS
10 1 (0.94%) NAS
10 1 (0.94%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.38%) Big Data
3 8 (7.55%) Hadoop
4 7 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.89%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.94%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (38.68%) Jenkins
2 39 (36.79%) GitLab
3 37 (34.91%) Git
4 12 (11.32%) JIRA
5 10 (9.43%) Artifactory
6 8 (7.55%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.89%) Subversion
10 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.94%) Gradle
10 1 (0.94%) Introscope
10 1 (0.94%) JUnit
10 1 (0.94%) Maven
10 1 (0.94%) Postman
10 1 (0.94%) Selenium
10 1 (0.94%) Snyk
10 1 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 37 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Finance
4 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Banking
5 6 (5.66%) Legal
6 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Publishing
7 2 (1.89%) Law
7 2 (1.89%) Military
7 2 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.98%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (14.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Senior
7 9 (8.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Network Engineer
12 4 (3.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 4 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.43%) Kafka
3 9 (8.49%) YAML
4 8 (7.55%) Keycloak
5 7 (6.60%) ARM Templates
6 6 (5.66%) REST
7 4 (3.77%) gRPC
7 4 (3.77%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (3.77%) RESTful
8 3 (2.83%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.83%) JSON
9 2 (1.89%) ADO
9 2 (1.89%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.89%) LAPP Stack
9 2 (1.89%) Loki
9 2 (1.89%) Node.js
10 1 (0.94%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.94%) boto
10 1 (0.94%) Middleware
10 1 (0.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.26%) Clustering
2 13 (12.26%) Private Cloud
3 11 (10.38%) PKI
4 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.94%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.94%) NHS
11 1 (0.94%) PMI
11 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (74.53%) Linux
2 36 (33.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (27.36%) Windows
4 14 (13.21%) Unix
5 10 (9.43%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.66%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.77%) CentOS
7 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.94%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.26%) CI/CD
2 60 (56.60%) DevOps
2 60 (56.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 39 (36.79%) Containerisation
5 27 (25.47%) Agile
6 26 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (21.70%) Test Automation
8 22 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (19.81%) Observability
10 18 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (16.98%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (15.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (15.09%) Task Automation
12 15 (14.15%) Microservices
13 14 (13.21%) AI
13 14 (13.21%) Data Protection
13 14 (13.21%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (13.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 84 (79.25%) Python
2 61 (57.55%) Bash
3 43 (40.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.43%) Java
5 8 (7.55%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.60%) C++
6 7 (6.60%) Perl
7 6 (5.66%) C
7 6 (5.66%) Go
8 5 (4.72%) Bicep
9 4 (3.77%) Rust
9 4 (3.77%) Scala
9 4 (3.77%) SQL
10 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.83%) Ruby
11 2 (1.89%) Groovy
11 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.94%) C#
12 1 (0.94%) Jython
Qualifications
1 51 (48.11%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 22 (20.75%) DV Cleared
4 14 (13.21%) Degree
5 10 (9.43%) AWS Certification
6 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) CCNP
8 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.83%) OCA
9 3 (2.83%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.83%) RHCA
9 3 (2.83%) RHCE
9 3 (2.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.89%) CISSP
10 2 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.89%) SSCP
11 1 (0.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.89%) NIST
3 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.89%) SOC 1
3 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (43.40%) Docker
2 22 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
4 9 (8.49%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.60%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.66%) BitLocker
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.83%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.89%) HDFS
8 2 (1.89%) Squid
8 2 (1.89%) SRDF
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.94%) GPFS
9 1 (0.94%) Lustre
9 1 (0.94%) NFS
9 1 (0.94%) Samba
9 1 (0.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (83.02%) Ansible
2 62 (58.49%) Terraform
3 53 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 47 (44.34%) Progress Chef
5 34 (32.08%) Prometheus
6 33 (31.13%) Grafana
7 9 (8.49%) vCenter Server
8 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (5.66%) Salt
9 6 (5.66%) vMotion
10 5 (4.72%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (4.72%) NetBackup
10 5 (4.72%) Podman
11 4 (3.77%) Nagios
11 4 (3.77%) Packer
12 3 (2.83%) Argo
12 3 (2.83%) Istio
12 3 (2.83%) systemd
12 3 (2.83%) yum
13 2 (1.89%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) VMware
2 24 (22.64%) Red Hat
3 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.43%) Google
5 9 (8.49%) Cisco
5 9 (8.49%) SaltStack
6 8 (7.55%) Splunk
7 6 (5.66%) Citrix
7 6 (5.66%) Databricks
7 6 (5.66%) Tenable
8 5 (4.72%) HP
8 5 (4.72%) NetApp
8 5 (4.72%) Veritas
9 4 (3.77%) Commvault
9 4 (3.77%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.77%) PagerDuty
10 3 (2.83%) Dell
10 3 (2.83%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.83%) Symantec
11 2 (1.89%) TOWER Software