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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 304 367
Rank change year-on-year -199 +63 -27
Contract jobs citing Puppet 94 187 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.76% 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.66% 4.81% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 139 137
10th Percentile £425 £362 £450
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £658 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £531 £575 £574
% change year-on-year -7.65% +0.22% -4.38%
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 5,658 3,888 4,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.23% 15.77% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,882 2,623 3,371
10th Percentile £320 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £509 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.68% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 38 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £22.36 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £42.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +40.83% -43.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £51.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%

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 14 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 14 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 -128 37 £575 +4.55% 7
North of England -80 18 £513 +28.13% 11
Yorkshire -59 17 £525 +31.25% 2
South East -63 14 £670 +16.52% 5
Midlands -50 11 £600 +41.01% 2
West Midlands -47 9 £600 +14.29% 2
South West -62 6 £553 -7.92% 10
East of England -29 4 £400 -27.27% 1
East Midlands -23 2 - -
North West -46 1 £300 -25.37% 6
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 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.06%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.06%) nginx
3 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.13%) AWS
2 35 (37.23%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) GitHub
4 18 (19.15%) Serverless
5 17 (18.09%) GCP
5 17 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (11.70%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (11.70%) Datadog
9 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (10.64%) Entra ID
9 10 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (8.51%) IaaS
11 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
11 8 (8.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.15%) Firewall
2 16 (17.02%) VPN
3 15 (15.96%) DNS
4 8 (8.51%) DHCP
4 8 (8.51%) SMTP
5 7 (7.45%) SSL
6 5 (5.32%) Network Security
7 4 (4.26%) MQTT
7 4 (4.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (3.19%) SAN
8 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.19%) WAN
9 2 (2.13%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.06%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.06%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.09%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.19%) MySQL
5 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.13%) Big Data
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (30.85%) Jenkins
2 28 (29.79%) GitLab
3 22 (23.40%) Git
4 14 (14.89%) JIRA
5 9 (9.57%) Artifactory
6 7 (7.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.06%) Introscope
General
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Finance
5 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.45%) Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Legal
7 3 (3.19%) Military
7 3 (3.19%) Publishing
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Police
8 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Lead
6 9 (9.57%) Senior
6 9 (9.57%) Site Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) NetApp Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Storage Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Splunk Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.89%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (13.83%) YAML
3 7 (7.45%) Kafka
3 7 (7.45%) Keycloak
4 5 (5.32%) REST
5 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.26%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.26%) gRPC
5 4 (4.26%) Loki
5 4 (4.26%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (4.26%) RESTful
6 2 (2.13%) ADO
6 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.13%) Node.js
7 1 (1.06%) JSON
7 1 (1.06%) Middleware
7 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.77%) PKI
3 8 (8.51%) Clustering
3 8 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.06%) NHS
9 1 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 66 (70.21%) Linux
2 24 (25.53%) Windows
3 23 (24.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (14.89%) Ubuntu
5 11 (11.70%) CentOS
5 11 (11.70%) Unix
5 11 (11.70%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.06%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.96%) DevOps
2 59 (62.77%) CI/CD
3 48 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 34 (36.17%) Configuration Management
6 25 (26.60%) Observability
7 20 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (20.21%) Agile
8 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.89%) Incident Management
9 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (13.83%) Microservices
10 13 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (12.77%) Migration
11 12 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 11 (11.70%) AI
12 11 (11.70%) Data Protection
12 11 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (74.47%) Python
2 51 (54.26%) Bash
3 28 (29.79%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.70%) Ruby
5 10 (10.64%) Perl
6 9 (9.57%) Java
6 9 (9.57%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.32%) Bicep
8 4 (4.26%) Rust
9 3 (3.19%) Go
9 3 (3.19%) SQL
10 2 (2.13%) Groovy
10 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.13%) Scala
10 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.06%) C
11 1 (1.06%) C++
11 1 (1.06%) Jython
Qualifications
1 39 (41.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.02%) DV Cleared
4 15 (15.96%) Degree
5 11 (11.70%) RHCE
6 8 (8.51%) AWS Certification
7 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.19%) CCNP
9 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.19%) OCA
9 3 (3.19%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.19%) RHCA
9 3 (3.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.13%) CISSP
10 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.13%) SSCP
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (46.81%) Docker
2 16 (17.02%) Active Directory
3 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.51%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.13%) Squid
6 2 (2.13%) SRDF
6 2 (2.13%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.06%) GPFS
7 1 (1.06%) Lustre
7 1 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 90 (95.74%) Ansible
2 51 (54.26%) Kubernetes
3 49 (52.13%) Terraform
4 30 (31.91%) Progress Chef
5 29 (30.85%) Prometheus
6 27 (28.72%) Grafana
7 8 (8.51%) vCenter Server
7 8 (8.51%) vMotion
8 7 (7.45%) NetBackup
9 6 (6.38%) Salt
10 5 (5.32%) Kibana
11 4 (4.26%) Argo
11 4 (4.26%) Podman
12 3 (3.19%) Istio
12 3 (3.19%) Packer
12 3 (3.19%) systemd
12 3 (3.19%) yum
13 2 (2.13%) Nagios
13 2 (2.13%) Nexpose
14 1 (1.06%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Red Hat
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.96%) VMware
4 8 (8.51%) Citrix
4 8 (8.51%) Splunk
5 7 (7.45%) Veritas
6 6 (6.38%) Commvault
6 6 (6.38%) Google
6 6 (6.38%) NetApp
7 4 (4.26%) Databricks
7 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.26%) HP
7 4 (4.26%) NVIDIA
7 4 (4.26%) Tenable
8 3 (3.19%) Broadcom
8 3 (3.19%) PagerDuty
9 2 (2.13%) Cisco
9 2 (2.13%) Dell
9 2 (2.13%) New Relic
9 2 (2.13%) Trend Micro