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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 312 362
Rank change year-on-year -205 +50 -10
Contract jobs citing Puppet 92 187 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.73% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.58% 4.67% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 137 139
10th Percentile £424 £359 £450
25th Percentile £496 £440 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £731 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.57% -5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

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 5,832 4,002 4,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.38% 15.71% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,010 2,674 3,367
10th Percentile £322 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £409 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 40 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.68 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +68.00% -41.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.30 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -106 41 £525 -2.33% 14
North of England -87 15 £500 +24.69% 8
Yorkshire -62 14 £513 +28.13%
South East -63 12 £670 +16.52% 6
Midlands -52 10 £600 +14.29%
West Midlands -54 8 £600 +11.63%
South West -66 6 £553 -7.92% 16
East of England -30 4 £400 -22.52% 2
East Midlands -12 2 - -
North West -46 1 £300 -25.37% 7
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 (11.96%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
3 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.09%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 52 (56.52%) AWS
2 37 (40.22%) Azure
3 24 (26.09%) GitHub
4 20 (21.74%) Serverless
5 19 (20.65%) GCP
6 16 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (14.13%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (14.13%) Datadog
8 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (11.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (11.96%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (11.96%) Entra ID
10 10 (10.87%) OpenShift
11 8 (8.70%) IaaS
11 8 (8.70%) PaaS
12 7 (7.61%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.65%) Firewall
2 16 (17.39%) VPN
3 15 (16.30%) DNS
4 8 (8.70%) DHCP
4 8 (8.70%) SMTP
5 7 (7.61%) SSL
6 5 (5.43%) Network Security
7 4 (4.35%) MQTT
7 4 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (4.35%) WAN
8 3 (3.26%) SAN
8 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.17%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.09%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.09%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (6.52%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.35%) Big Data
6 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.26%) MySQL
6 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 31 (33.70%) GitLab
3 23 (25.00%) Git
4 15 (16.30%) JIRA
5 10 (10.87%) Artifactory
6 7 (7.61%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.09%) Introscope
General
1 31 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
4 9 (9.78%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.61%) Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Legal
8 3 (3.26%) Military
8 3 (3.26%) Publishing
9 2 (2.17%) Law
9 2 (2.17%) Police
9 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Senior
6 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Site Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Architect
7 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Lead
8 6 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) NetApp Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Storage Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (10.87%) YAML
3 7 (7.61%) Kafka
3 7 (7.61%) Keycloak
4 5 (5.43%) REST
5 4 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.35%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.35%) gRPC
5 4 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (4.35%) RESTful
6 2 (2.17%) ADO
6 2 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.17%) Loki
6 2 (2.17%) Node.js
7 1 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.09%) boto
7 1 (1.09%) JSON
7 1 (1.09%) Middleware
7 1 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.04%) PKI
3 8 (8.70%) Clustering
3 8 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (5.43%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (67.39%) Linux
2 25 (27.17%) Windows
3 21 (22.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (11.96%) Ubuntu
4 11 (11.96%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.78%) Unix
6 8 (8.70%) CentOS
7 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) DevOps
2 59 (64.13%) CI/CD
3 50 (54.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 34 (36.96%) Configuration Management
6 22 (23.91%) Observability
7 20 (21.74%) Agile
7 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (18.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (16.30%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (14.13%) AI
12 13 (14.13%) Microservices
13 12 (13.04%) Data Protection
13 12 (13.04%) Incident Management
13 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
14 10 (10.87%) Migration
14 10 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (73.91%) Python
2 50 (54.35%) Bash
3 29 (31.52%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.78%) Java
4 9 (9.78%) Shell Script
5 8 (8.70%) Ruby
6 7 (7.61%) Perl
7 5 (5.43%) Bicep
8 4 (4.35%) Go
8 4 (4.35%) Rust
9 3 (3.26%) SQL
10 2 (2.17%) Groovy
10 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.17%) Scala
10 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.09%) C
11 1 (1.09%) C++
11 1 (1.09%) Jython
Qualifications
1 41 (44.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.48%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.22%) Degree
5 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.70%) RHCE
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.26%) CCNP
7 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.26%) OCA
7 3 (3.26%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (3.26%) RHCA
7 3 (3.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.17%) CISSP
8 2 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.17%) SSCP
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.17%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (50.00%) Docker
2 17 (18.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.78%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.70%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.26%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.17%) Squid
7 2 (2.17%) SRDF
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.09%) GPFS
8 1 (1.09%) HDFS
8 1 (1.09%) Lustre
8 1 (1.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (95.65%) Ansible
2 51 (55.43%) Kubernetes
3 50 (54.35%) Terraform
4 32 (34.78%) Progress Chef
5 30 (32.61%) Prometheus
6 28 (30.43%) Grafana
7 8 (8.70%) vCenter Server
7 8 (8.70%) vMotion
8 7 (7.61%) NetBackup
8 7 (7.61%) Salt
9 4 (4.35%) Packer
9 4 (4.35%) Podman
10 3 (3.26%) Istio
10 3 (3.26%) Kibana
10 3 (3.26%) Nagios
10 3 (3.26%) systemd
10 3 (3.26%) yum
11 2 (2.17%) Argo
11 2 (2.17%) Nexpose
12 1 (1.09%) Consul
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) Red Hat
3 15 (16.30%) VMware
4 8 (8.70%) Citrix
4 8 (8.70%) Splunk
5 7 (7.61%) Google
5 7 (7.61%) Veritas
6 6 (6.52%) Commvault
7 5 (5.43%) HP
7 5 (5.43%) NetApp
8 4 (4.35%) Databricks
8 4 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.35%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.35%) PagerDuty
8 4 (4.35%) Tenable
9 3 (3.26%) Broadcom
9 3 (3.26%) Symantec
10 2 (2.17%) Cisco
10 2 (2.17%) Dell
10 2 (2.17%) TOWER Software