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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 395 354
Rank change year-on-year -150 -41 -11
Contract jobs citing Puppet 95 122 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.44% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.89% 3.08% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 77 108
10th Percentile £400 £369 £455
25th Percentile £475 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% -1.74%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £735 £745 £662
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
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 5,036 3,960 3,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.92% 14.18% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,605 2,603
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 75 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £20.17
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.58 £64.50
90th Percentile £89.59 £73.40 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +153.92% -33.33% -31.82%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -72 59 £525 - 84
South East -51 14 £650 +13.04% 16
East of England -23 8 £513 -3.07% 8
Midlands -51 8 £600 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -57 8 £600 +9.09% 2
South West -46 3 £575 -13.21% 8
North of England -96 2 £575 +21.05% 19
North West -44 1 £500 -4.76% 15
Yorkshire -60 1 £650 +40.54% 2
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 (7.37%) JBoss
2 5 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.21%) Apache
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.11%) nginx
5 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.05%) Confluence
6 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 60 (63.16%) AWS
2 46 (48.42%) Azure
3 27 (28.42%) GCP
4 21 (22.11%) GitHub
5 20 (21.05%) Datadog
6 18 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (14.74%) Serverless
8 14 (14.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (13.68%) Amazon S3
10 12 (12.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
12 9 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
13 8 (8.42%) IaaS
14 6 (6.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.84%) DNS
2 15 (15.79%) Firewall
3 10 (10.53%) SSL
3 10 (10.53%) VPN
4 8 (8.42%) Kerberos
5 7 (7.37%) Network Security
6 6 (6.32%) DHCP
6 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.32%) WAN
7 4 (4.21%) MQTT
7 4 (4.21%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (3.16%) SMTP
9 2 (2.11%) BGP
9 2 (2.11%) MPLS
9 2 (2.11%) SAN
10 1 (1.05%) IPv4
10 1 (1.05%) IPv6
10 1 (1.05%) OSPF
10 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) Big Data
2 10 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (9.47%) Hadoop
4 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (7.37%) MySQL
6 5 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.16%) Apache Hive
8 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.11%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.05%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 40 (42.11%) GitLab
2 35 (36.84%) Git
3 34 (35.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.47%) Artifactory
5 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.26%) JIRA
6 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.11%) Gerrit
7 2 (2.11%) Subversion
8 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) JUnit
8 1 (1.05%) Maven
8 1 (1.05%) Postman
8 1 (1.05%) Selenium
8 1 (1.05%) Snyk
8 1 (1.05%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Legal
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Publishing
7 2 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Police
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Architect
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Senior
7 6 (6.32%) Site Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (65.26%) Terraform
2 13 (13.68%) Kafka
3 10 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (10.53%) Keycloak
4 6 (6.32%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (4.21%) gRPC
5 4 (4.21%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (4.21%) Pulumi
5 4 (4.21%) RESTful
5 4 (4.21%) YAML
6 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.16%) LAPP Stack
6 3 (3.16%) OAuth
6 3 (3.16%) OpenID
7 2 (2.11%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.11%) Jolokia
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) Loki
7 2 (2.11%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.89%) Private Cloud
2 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.58%) Product Ownership
4 10 (10.53%) Clustering
4 10 (10.53%) PKI
5 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.11%) Replication
8 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.05%) NHS
9 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (84.21%) Linux
2 39 (41.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (27.37%) Windows
4 11 (11.58%) Unix
5 9 (9.47%) Ubuntu
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (5.26%) CentOS
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.11%) Rocky
10 1 (1.05%) AIX
10 1 (1.05%) Solaris
10 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.11%) CI/CD
1 59 (62.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (57.89%) DevOps
3 47 (49.47%) Configuration Management
4 35 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 26 (27.37%) Observability
6 23 (24.21%) Test Automation
7 21 (22.11%) Agile
7 21 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (18.95%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (16.84%) Task Automation
11 15 (15.79%) AI
11 15 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (14.74%) Scrum
13 13 (13.68%) Business Continuity
13 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
14 12 (12.63%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (80.00%) Python
2 51 (53.68%) Bash
3 34 (35.79%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.58%) C++
5 10 (10.53%) Java
6 9 (9.47%) C
7 8 (8.42%) Go
7 8 (8.42%) Perl
7 8 (8.42%) SQL
8 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.21%) Groovy
10 4 (4.21%) Rust
10 4 (4.21%) Scala
11 3 (3.16%) Bicep
11 3 (3.16%) C#
12 2 (2.11%) Ruby
12 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.05%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (44.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (22.11%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.74%) Degree
5 9 (9.47%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.11%) CISSP
8 2 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.11%) SSCP
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.05%) CCIE
9 1 (1.05%) CCNP
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.05%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.11%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (42.11%) Docker
2 16 (16.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.16%) BitLocker
5 3 (3.16%) HDFS
5 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (3.16%) NFS
5 3 (3.16%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.11%) Squid
6 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.05%) GPFS
7 1 (1.05%) Lustre
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.05%) Samba
7 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.05%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (76.84%) Ansible
2 49 (51.58%) Kubernetes
3 39 (41.05%) Progress Chef
4 38 (40.00%) Prometheus
5 37 (38.95%) Grafana
6 7 (7.37%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (6.32%) Salt
7 6 (6.32%) vCenter Server
8 5 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (5.26%) Podman
9 4 (4.21%) Argo
9 4 (4.21%) Nagios
9 4 (4.21%) Packer
10 3 (3.16%) systemd
10 3 (3.16%) vMotion
10 3 (3.16%) yum
11 2 (2.11%) Control-M
11 2 (2.11%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.11%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.11%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Red Hat
2 21 (22.11%) VMware
3 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 12 (12.63%) SaltStack
5 10 (10.53%) Google
6 8 (8.42%) Cisco
6 8 (8.42%) Splunk
7 6 (6.32%) Tenable
8 4 (4.21%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.21%) PagerDuty
9 3 (3.16%) Citrix
9 3 (3.16%) Cloudera
9 3 (3.16%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.16%) HP
9 3 (3.16%) NetApp
9 3 (3.16%) Oracle
9 3 (3.16%) Symantec
10 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.11%) Talend
10 2 (2.11%) Trend Micro