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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 339 358
Rank change year-on-year -198 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing Puppet 94 182 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.66% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.57% 4.28% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 133 139
10th Percentile £413 £355 £450
25th Percentile £480 £440 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.54% -7.83%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £735 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - -

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 5,969 4,257 4,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.42% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,830 3,266
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.49%
75th Percentile £606 £610 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 55 74
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.06 £26.45 £22.12
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +78.69% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.04 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +56.31% +20.97% -46.09%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -96 46 £530 +0.95% 36
South East -72 15 £650 +13.04% 10
North of England -96 11 £500 +25.00% 19
Midlands -47 10 £600 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire -66 9 £500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands -46 8 £600 +11.63% 1
South West -66 5 £526 -8.48% 8
East of England -23 4 £400 -22.52% 4
East Midlands -12 2 - -
North West -51 2 £400 -0.50% 14
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 (11.70%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) JBoss
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.06%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 55 (58.51%) AWS
2 44 (46.81%) Azure
3 28 (29.79%) GitHub
4 20 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (21.28%) GCP
4 20 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (18.09%) Datadog
6 16 (17.02%) Serverless
7 13 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (13.83%) OpenShift
8 12 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (11.70%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (9.57%) Entra ID
12 7 (7.45%) CloudBees
12 7 (7.45%) IaaS
12 7 (7.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.15%) Firewall
2 15 (15.96%) DNS
3 13 (13.83%) VPN
4 8 (8.51%) DHCP
4 8 (8.51%) SSL
5 7 (7.45%) Network Security
5 7 (7.45%) SMTP
6 6 (6.38%) WAN
7 4 (4.26%) MQTT
8 3 (3.19%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.19%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (3.19%) SAN
8 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.13%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.06%) BGP
10 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.06%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.06%) MPLS
10 1 (1.06%) NAS
10 1 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (7.45%) Big Data
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon QuickSight
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.26%) MySQL
5 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.13%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.06%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 36 (38.30%) GitLab
3 30 (31.91%) Git
4 14 (14.89%) JIRA
5 10 (10.64%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.51%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.13%) Subversion
10 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.06%) Gradle
10 1 (1.06%) Introscope
10 1 (1.06%) JUnit
10 1 (1.06%) Maven
10 1 (1.06%) Postman
10 1 (1.06%) Selenium
10 1 (1.06%) Snyk
10 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.38%) Banking
4 6 (6.38%) Legal
5 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Publishing
6 2 (2.13%) Law
6 2 (2.13%) Military
6 2 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.96%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Senior
6 9 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) NetApp Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (8.51%) Kafka
2 8 (8.51%) Keycloak
3 7 (7.45%) ARM Templates
3 7 (7.45%) YAML
4 6 (6.38%) REST
5 4 (4.26%) gRPC
5 4 (4.26%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (4.26%) RESTful
6 3 (3.19%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.19%) JSON
7 2 (2.13%) ADO
7 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.13%) Loki
7 2 (2.13%) Node.js
8 1 (1.06%) boto
8 1 (1.06%) Middleware
8 1 (1.06%) OAuth
8 1 (1.06%) OpenID
8 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.77%) PKI
3 10 (10.64%) Clustering
4 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
5 8 (8.51%) Private Cloud
6 7 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
11 2 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
12 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (1.06%) NHS
12 1 (1.06%) PMI
12 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (70.21%) Linux
2 30 (31.91%) Windows
3 24 (25.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (11.70%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.45%) Unix
6 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.19%) CentOS
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.06%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 59 (62.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (59.57%) DevOps
4 42 (44.68%) Configuration Management
5 39 (41.49%) Containerisation
6 25 (26.60%) Agile
7 23 (24.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (23.40%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (20.21%) Observability
10 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.09%) Test Automation
11 16 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (15.96%) Microservices
13 14 (14.89%) AI
13 14 (14.89%) Data Protection
13 14 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (13.83%) Incident Management
14 13 (13.83%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (12.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (79.79%) Python
2 61 (64.89%) Bash
3 41 (43.62%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.64%) Java
5 8 (8.51%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.38%) Go
7 5 (5.32%) Bicep
8 4 (4.26%) Rust
9 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.19%) Ruby
10 2 (2.13%) C++
10 2 (2.13%) Groovy
10 2 (2.13%) Perl
10 2 (2.13%) Scala
10 2 (2.13%) SQL
10 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.06%) C
11 1 (1.06%) C#
11 1 (1.06%) Jython
Qualifications
1 49 (52.13%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 23 (24.47%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.70%) Degree
5 10 (10.64%) AWS Certification
6 8 (8.51%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) CCNP
8 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.19%) OCA
9 3 (3.19%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.19%) RHCA
9 3 (3.19%) RHCE
9 3 (3.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.13%) CISSP
10 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.13%) SSCP
11 1 (1.06%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (47.87%) Docker
2 19 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.64%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.51%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.45%) BitLocker
6 7 (7.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (3.19%) Terminal Services
8 2 (2.13%) HDFS
8 2 (2.13%) Squid
8 2 (2.13%) SRDF
8 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.06%) GPFS
9 1 (1.06%) Lustre
9 1 (1.06%) NFS
9 1 (1.06%) Samba
9 1 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 88 (93.62%) Ansible
2 59 (62.77%) Terraform
3 54 (57.45%) Kubernetes
4 39 (41.49%) Progress Chef
5 34 (36.17%) Prometheus
6 33 (35.11%) Grafana
7 10 (10.64%) vCenter Server
8 7 (7.45%) NetBackup
8 7 (7.45%) vMotion
9 6 (6.38%) Salt
10 5 (5.32%) Podman
11 4 (4.26%) Nagios
11 4 (4.26%) Packer
12 3 (3.19%) Argo
12 3 (3.19%) Istio
12 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (3.19%) systemd
12 3 (3.19%) yum
13 2 (2.13%) Nexpose
14 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
1 22 (23.40%) VMware
2 16 (17.02%) Red Hat
3 9 (9.57%) Google
4 8 (8.51%) Splunk
5 7 (7.45%) Citrix
5 7 (7.45%) Veritas
6 6 (6.38%) Commvault
6 6 (6.38%) NetApp
6 6 (6.38%) Tenable
7 5 (5.32%) Cisco
7 5 (5.32%) HP
8 4 (4.26%) Databricks
8 4 (4.26%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.26%) PagerDuty
9 3 (3.19%) Dell
9 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.19%) Symantec
10 2 (2.13%) EMC
10 2 (2.13%) Oracle