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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 314 392
Rank change year-on-year -172 +78 -59
Contract jobs citing Puppet 95 164 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.67% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.72% 4.32% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 125 124
10th Percentile £432 £361 £437
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -6.88%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £688
90th Percentile £639 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £582
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -3.00%
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% -39.10%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -37.09%

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 5,519 3,794 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 15.61% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,827 2,619 3,158
10th Percentile £316 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £691 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 37 109
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.63 £28.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +105.83% +8.91% -55.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.30 £80.40 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +113.21% +2.85% -55.19%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -110 34 £530 -3.64% 10
North of England -61 20 £500 +28.87% 8
Yorkshire -44 19 £500 +32.01% 1
Midlands -46 17 £550 +68.71% 3
West Midlands -45 13 £575 - 2
South East -70 11 £688 +19.57% 7
South West -69 6 £553 -7.92% 10
East Midlands -30 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -40 3 - - 1
North West -42 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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.05%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.05%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.05%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) SAS
3 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Weka
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.37%) AWS
2 33 (34.74%) Azure
3 27 (28.42%) GitHub
4 20 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (16.84%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (16.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.74%) Amazon S3
8 14 (14.74%) GCP
8 14 (14.74%) IaaS
9 13 (13.68%) Serverless
10 11 (11.58%) Azure AKS
11 9 (9.47%) OpenShift
12 8 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (7.37%) CloudBees
13 7 (7.37%) PaaS
14 6 (6.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) Firewall
1 12 (12.63%) VPN
2 10 (10.53%) DNS
3 7 (7.37%) DHCP
3 7 (7.37%) SMTP
4 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (3.16%) Network Security
6 3 (3.16%) SAN
7 2 (2.11%) HTTP
7 2 (2.11%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.05%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.05%) Internet
8 1 (1.05%) MQTT
8 1 (1.05%) NAS
8 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.11%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (33.68%) Jenkins
2 26 (27.37%) GitLab
3 23 (24.21%) Git
4 16 (16.84%) JIRA
5 9 (9.47%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.42%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.05%) Gradle
10 1 (1.05%) Introscope
10 1 (1.05%) JUnit
10 1 (1.05%) Maven
10 1 (1.05%) Postman
10 1 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (1.05%) Snyk
10 1 (1.05%) Travis CI
10 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 34 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.58%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.42%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Police
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) DevOps Engineer
1 22 (23.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 21 (22.11%) Site Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) Senior
4 11 (11.58%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Architect
5 8 (8.42%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Lead
5 8 (8.42%) Splunk Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) NetApp Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.79%) YAML
3 8 (8.42%) REST
4 5 (5.26%) Kafka
5 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.21%) Loki
6 3 (3.16%) ADO
6 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.16%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.11%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.11%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.05%) gRPC
8 1 (1.05%) Middleware
8 1 (1.05%) SOAP
8 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.47%) PKI
3 8 (8.42%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.42%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.37%) Clustering
5 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.11%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.11%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.05%) CMDB
8 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.05%) PMI
8 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 65 (68.42%) Linux
2 16 (16.84%) Unix
2 16 (16.84%) Windows
3 14 (14.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (11.58%) Ubuntu
5 10 (10.53%) CentOS
5 10 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.05%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (67.37%) CI/CD
2 63 (66.32%) DevOps
3 49 (51.58%) Containerisation
4 47 (49.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (45.26%) Configuration Management
6 32 (33.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (27.37%) Observability
8 25 (26.32%) Agile
9 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (16.84%) Incident Management
12 15 (15.79%) Incident Response
12 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
12 15 (15.79%) Test Automation
13 14 (14.74%) Computer Science
13 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (12.63%) Microservices
15 12 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (73.68%) Python
2 52 (54.74%) Bash
3 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.68%) Java
5 10 (10.53%) Ruby
6 9 (9.47%) Perl
7 7 (7.37%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.26%) Bicep
8 5 (5.26%) SQL
9 4 (4.21%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.11%) Scala
10 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) Jython
11 1 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.89%) Degree
4 15 (15.79%) DV Cleared
5 14 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (11.58%) RHCE
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.16%) CCNP
9 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.16%) OCA
9 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.16%) RHCA
9 3 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (55.79%) Docker
2 12 (12.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.42%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.37%) BitLocker
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (7.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.11%) GPFS
5 2 (2.11%) Lustre
5 2 (2.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (2.11%) SRDF
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (94.74%) Ansible
2 53 (55.79%) Kubernetes
3 48 (50.53%) Terraform
4 31 (32.63%) Progress Chef
5 29 (30.53%) Grafana
6 24 (25.26%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.47%) Kibana
8 8 (8.42%) NetBackup
9 7 (7.37%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.37%) vMotion
10 6 (6.32%) Salt
11 4 (4.21%) Istio
12 3 (3.16%) Argo
12 3 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (3.16%) Podman
13 1 (1.05%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.05%) Consul
13 1 (1.05%) logstash
Vendors
1 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) Red Hat
3 14 (14.74%) VMware
4 13 (13.68%) Splunk
5 7 (7.37%) Citrix
5 7 (7.37%) Commvault
5 7 (7.37%) NetApp
5 7 (7.37%) PagerDuty
5 7 (7.37%) Veritas
6 4 (4.21%) Databricks
6 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.16%) Broadcom
7 3 (3.16%) Dell
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco
8 2 (2.11%) Google
8 2 (2.11%) HP
8 2 (2.11%) New Relic
8 2 (2.11%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.05%) Intel
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle