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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 339 352
Rank change year-on-year -115 +13 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 98 144 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.85% 3.68% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 85 152
10th Percentile £431 £407 £422
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.03% -3.17%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £681
90th Percentile £663 £690 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -
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% -26.92%
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% +7.69%

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 5,284 3,915 4,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.19% 15.14% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,660 2,557 3,382
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 41 144
10th Percentile £18.65 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £77.50 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.16
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.50% -15.46%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -27 30 £525 +27.12% 5
West Midlands -37 28 £550 +10.00% 4
London -64 25 £575 +3.60% 8
North of England -64 21 £523 +4.50% 6
Yorkshire -50 20 £520 +8.90% 2
South East -30 13 £650 +33.33% 4
East of England -22 4 £619 +7.61% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £525 +61.04% 1
South West -54 2 £575 -6.50% 15
North West -37 1 £525 +5.00% 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 11 (11.22%) Confluence
2 9 (9.18%) Apache
3 8 (8.16%) JBoss
3 8 (8.16%) WebLogic
4 6 (6.12%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.06%) AWS
2 25 (25.51%) Azure
3 23 (23.47%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (21.43%) GitHub
5 17 (17.35%) GCP
6 16 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (16.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (12.24%) IaaS
7 12 (12.24%) Serverless
8 11 (11.22%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.16%) Azure AKS
10 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.16%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.14%) Datadog
12 4 (4.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) DNS
1 9 (9.18%) VPN
2 8 (8.16%) Firewall
2 8 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.12%) DHCP
4 4 (4.08%) Network Security
4 4 (4.08%) SMTP
5 2 (2.04%) HTTP
6 1 (1.02%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.02%) Internet
6 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.02%) MQTT
6 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.41%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (15.31%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (10.20%) SQL Server
5 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.06%) MySQL
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.04%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.02%) HBase
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (27.55%) Git
2 24 (24.49%) Jenkins
3 18 (18.37%) GitLab
4 14 (14.29%) JIRA
5 12 (12.24%) JUnit
5 12 (12.24%) Selenium
6 8 (8.16%) Bitbucket
6 8 (8.16%) Eclipse
6 8 (8.16%) IntelliJ
7 7 (7.14%) Artifactory
8 6 (6.12%) Gradle
8 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
8 6 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (5.10%) CircleCI
9 5 (5.10%) Maven
10 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.08%) Postman
10 4 (4.08%) Snyk
10 4 (4.08%) webpack
11 1 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.14%) Finance
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Site Engineer
2 24 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (24.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Lead
6 7 (7.14%) Senior
7 5 (5.10%) Architect
7 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) NetApp Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Developer
9 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.55%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (18.37%) REST
3 13 (13.27%) JSON
3 13 (13.27%) YAML
4 9 (9.18%) XML
5 8 (8.16%) EJB
5 8 (8.16%) Hibernate
5 8 (8.16%) HTML
5 8 (8.16%) HTML5
5 8 (8.16%) J2EE
5 8 (8.16%) J2SE
5 8 (8.16%) Play Framework
5 8 (8.16%) SOAP
5 8 (8.16%) Spring
6 4 (4.08%) Kafka
7 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.04%) Loki
8 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 12 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.12%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (4.08%) Clustering
5 4 (4.08%) PKI
5 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.04%) Grid Computing
7 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.02%) CMDB
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 63 (64.29%) Linux
2 28 (28.57%) Unix
3 11 (11.22%) CentOS
3 11 (11.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (10.20%) Ubuntu
5 9 (9.18%) Windows
6 6 (6.12%) Windows Server
7 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (70.41%) DevOps
2 57 (58.16%) CI/CD
3 50 (51.02%) Containerisation
4 43 (43.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (42.86%) Configuration Management
6 35 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (33.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 28 (28.57%) Agile
8 28 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (26.53%) Observability
10 20 (20.41%) Software Engineering
11 19 (19.39%) Computer Science
12 18 (18.37%) Incident Response
13 17 (17.35%) Change Management
13 17 (17.35%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (17.35%) Migration
14 15 (15.31%) Microservices
14 15 (15.31%) Test Automation
15 14 (14.29%) Data Modelling
15 14 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 64 (65.31%) Python
2 46 (46.94%) Bash
3 17 (17.35%) Java
4 14 (14.29%) SQL
5 11 (11.22%) Perl
6 9 (9.18%) Ruby
7 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.16%) Scala
8 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.04%) C++
9 2 (2.04%) Go
9 2 (2.04%) Groovy
10 1 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.43%) Degree
3 19 (19.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
5 12 (12.24%) DV Cleared
6 11 (11.22%) RHCE
7 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.06%) RHCSA
9 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (64.29%) Docker
2 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.08%) BitLocker
4 4 (4.08%) GPFS
4 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.08%) Lustre
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (4.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.06%) KVM
6 1 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (85.71%) Ansible
2 50 (51.02%) Kubernetes
3 40 (40.82%) Terraform
4 27 (27.55%) Progress Chef
5 22 (22.45%) Grafana
6 16 (16.33%) Prometheus
7 15 (15.31%) Kibana
8 8 (8.16%) NetBackup
9 6 (6.12%) Podman
10 5 (5.10%) Salt
11 4 (4.08%) vCenter Server
11 4 (4.08%) vMotion
12 3 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (2.04%) Argo
13 2 (2.04%) Istio
13 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (1.02%) Ambari
14 1 (1.02%) Hadoop YARN
14 1 (1.02%) logstash
14 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Splunk
2 20 (20.41%) Red Hat
3 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.16%) Commvault
4 8 (8.16%) PagerDuty
4 8 (8.16%) webMethods
5 7 (7.14%) VMware
6 4 (4.08%) Citrix
6 4 (4.08%) NetApp
7 3 (3.06%) Veritas
8 2 (2.04%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.04%) New Relic
9 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.02%) Dell
9 1 (1.02%) Google
9 1 (1.02%) Intel
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.02%) SnapLogic