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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 391 359
Rank change year-on-year -153 -32 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 93 131 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.84% 3.41% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 88 121
10th Percentile £400 £370 £450
25th Percentile £476 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £538 £557
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -3.50% -5.59%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £622
90th Percentile £735 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.60 - -
25th Percentile £29.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £42.50 - £16.50
90th Percentile £46.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -79.49%

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 5,045 3,837 3,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.94% 13.91% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,354 2,526 2,703
10th Percentile £312 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 69 56
10th Percentile £21.46 £18.65 £19.97
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.30 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £43.09
Median % change year-on-year +98.44% -21.10% -17.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.59 £77.75 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £39.25
% change year-on-year +145.75% -32.61% -28.64%

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 21 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Puppet in England

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 21 September 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 -78 57 £525 - 131
South East -62 14 £650 +13.04% 21
East of England -25 8 £513 +39.93% 7
Midlands -54 8 £600 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -54 8 £600 +9.09% 2
South West -51 3 £575 -8.73% 15
North of England -93 2 £575 +24.32% 26
North West -50 1 £500 +26.10% 18
Yorkshire -64 1 £650 +40.54% 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 7 (7.53%) JBoss
2 4 (4.30%) Apache
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) nginx
5 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 57 (61.29%) AWS
2 43 (46.24%) Azure
3 25 (26.88%) GCP
4 22 (23.66%) GitHub
5 20 (21.51%) Datadog
6 19 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (15.05%) Serverless
10 13 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (11.83%) Amazon S3
13 10 (10.75%) OpenShift
14 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (9.68%) IaaS
15 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
16 6 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 5 (5.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.13%) DNS
2 14 (15.05%) Firewall
3 9 (9.68%) VPN
4 8 (8.60%) Kerberos
4 8 (8.60%) SSL
5 7 (7.53%) DHCP
5 7 (7.53%) Network Security
6 6 (6.45%) WAN
7 5 (5.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.30%) MQTT
8 4 (4.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (4.30%) SMTP
9 2 (2.15%) BGP
9 2 (2.15%) MPLS
9 2 (2.15%) SAN
10 1 (1.08%) IPv4
10 1 (1.08%) IPv6
10 1 (1.08%) NAS
10 1 (1.08%) OSPF
10 1 (1.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) Big Data
2 10 (10.75%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (8.60%) Hadoop
4 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.38%) MySQL
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.15%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.15%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (39.78%) GitLab
2 32 (34.41%) Git
2 32 (34.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.53%) Artifactory
4 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.38%) JIRA
6 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.15%) Gerrit
7 2 (2.15%) Subversion
8 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.08%) Gradle
8 1 (1.08%) JUnit
8 1 (1.08%) Maven
8 1 (1.08%) Postman
8 1 (1.08%) Selenium
8 1 (1.08%) Snyk
8 1 (1.08%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.60%) Finance
4 6 (6.45%) Legal
4 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.23%) Publishing
6 2 (2.15%) Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Military
6 2 (2.15%) Police
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (17.20%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (15.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Architect
8 6 (6.45%) Network Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior
8 6 (6.45%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Administrator
9 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (5.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (64.52%) Terraform
2 10 (10.75%) Kafka
3 8 (8.60%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (8.60%) Keycloak
4 5 (5.38%) YAML
5 4 (4.30%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.30%) gRPC
5 4 (4.30%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (4.30%) Pulumi
5 4 (4.30%) RESTful
6 3 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.23%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (2.15%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.15%) Jolokia
7 2 (2.15%) JSON
7 2 (2.15%) LDAP
7 2 (2.15%) Loki
7 2 (2.15%) Node.js
7 2 (2.15%) REST
8 1 (1.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Private Cloud
2 13 (13.98%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.83%) Clustering
4 9 (9.68%) Product Ownership
5 8 (8.60%) PKI
6 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.15%) Replication
9 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.08%) Grid Computing
10 1 (1.08%) NHS
10 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (82.80%) Linux
2 38 (40.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (26.88%) Windows
4 11 (11.83%) Unix
5 8 (8.60%) Ubuntu
5 8 (8.60%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.38%) CentOS
7 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.15%) Rocky
8 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.08%) AIX
9 1 (1.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (61.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (60.22%) CI/CD
3 54 (58.06%) DevOps
4 46 (49.46%) Configuration Management
5 32 (34.41%) Containerisation
6 24 (25.81%) Observability
7 20 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (20.43%) Agile
8 19 (20.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (20.43%) Test Automation
9 18 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (17.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (17.20%) Task Automation
11 15 (16.13%) AI
11 15 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (15.05%) Scrum
13 13 (13.98%) Business Continuity
13 13 (13.98%) Incident Management
13 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (77.42%) Python
2 49 (52.69%) Bash
3 36 (38.71%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.68%) C
4 9 (9.68%) C++
5 8 (8.60%) Go
5 8 (8.60%) Java
5 8 (8.60%) Perl
6 7 (7.53%) SQL
7 6 (6.45%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.30%) Bicep
8 4 (4.30%) Groovy
8 4 (4.30%) Rust
8 4 (4.30%) Scala
9 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.15%) Ruby
10 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.08%) C#
11 1 (1.08%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.51%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.05%) Degree
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.15%) CISSP
8 2 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.15%) SSCP
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.08%) CCIE
9 1 (1.08%) CCNP
9 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.15%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.15%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (41.94%) Docker
2 17 (18.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.83%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.53%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.30%) BitLocker
5 4 (4.30%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (3.23%) NFS
6 3 (3.23%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.15%) HDFS
7 2 (2.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (2.15%) Squid
7 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.08%) GPFS
8 1 (1.08%) Lustre
8 1 (1.08%) Samba
8 1 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.08%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (76.34%) Ansible
2 47 (50.54%) Kubernetes
3 38 (40.86%) Progress Chef
4 35 (37.63%) Prometheus
5 34 (36.56%) Grafana
6 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (7.53%) vCenter Server
7 6 (6.45%) Salt
8 5 (5.38%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (5.38%) Podman
9 4 (4.30%) Nagios
9 4 (4.30%) Packer
9 4 (4.30%) vMotion
10 3 (3.23%) systemd
10 3 (3.23%) yum
11 2 (2.15%) Argo
11 2 (2.15%) Control-M
11 2 (2.15%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.15%) Nexpose
12 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Red Hat
1 22 (23.66%) VMware
2 19 (20.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.90%) SaltStack
4 10 (10.75%) Google
5 8 (8.60%) Cisco
5 8 (8.60%) Splunk
6 6 (6.45%) Tenable
7 4 (4.30%) Citrix
7 4 (4.30%) NetApp
7 4 (4.30%) NVIDIA
7 4 (4.30%) PagerDuty
8 3 (3.23%) Databricks
8 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.23%) HP
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle
8 3 (3.23%) Symantec
9 2 (2.15%) Dell
9 2 (2.15%) EMC
9 2 (2.15%) Informatica