Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 371 331
Rank change year-on-year +48 -40 -44
Contract jobs citing Puppet 165 173 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.47% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.37% 3.94% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 131 278
10th Percentile £374 £450 £454
25th Percentile £456 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%
75th Percentile £624 £688 £688
90th Percentile £700 £763 £746
UK median daily rate £575 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £67.20
25th Percentile - £46.25 £70.50
Median hourly rate £95.00 £47.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -39.10% +41.82%
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £61.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +55.10% -16.10% +32.73%

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +5 74 £525 -12.50% 76
South West +77 41 £600 -5.88% 15
North of England -1 20 £389 -29.47% 19
South East +56 19 £575 -1.50% 29
Yorkshire -11 12 £388 -27.14% 7
North West +16 8 £402 -30.93% 12
Midlands - 4 £326 - 8
East of England +31 3 £550 -18.52% 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (10.91%) Confluence
2 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.21%) IIS
4 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 94 (56.97%) AWS
2 63 (38.18%) Azure
3 28 (16.97%) OpenShift
4 23 (13.94%) GCP
5 17 (10.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.48%) GitHub
7 14 (8.48%) PaaS
8 12 (7.27%) IaaS
9 11 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.24%) Route 53
12 4 (2.42%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.42%) Serverless
13 3 (1.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (27.88%) DNS
2 35 (21.21%) Firewall
3 29 (17.58%) DHCP
4 26 (15.76%) TCP/IP
5 25 (15.15%) HTTP
6 18 (10.91%) VPN
7 9 (5.45%) SAN
7 9 (5.45%) SMTP
8 8 (4.85%) Network Security
9 7 (4.24%) Internet
9 7 (4.24%) SSH
10 6 (3.64%) Multicast
11 5 (3.03%) BGP
11 5 (3.03%) HSRP
11 5 (3.03%) IGMP
11 5 (3.03%) NAS
11 5 (3.03%) OSPF
11 5 (3.03%) SNMP
11 5 (3.03%) VRRP
12 3 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.45%) Big Data
3 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.42%) MySQL
6 3 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.82%) Hazelcast
6 3 (1.82%) Redis
6 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.21%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (33.94%) Jenkins
2 41 (24.85%) Git
3 32 (19.39%) GitLab
4 21 (12.73%) JIRA
5 17 (10.30%) Bitbucket
6 11 (6.67%) Maven
7 8 (4.85%) Selenium
8 5 (3.03%) JUnit
9 4 (2.42%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (2.42%) Gradle
9 4 (2.42%) HP UFT
9 4 (2.42%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.42%) JMeter
9 4 (2.42%) NetBeans
9 4 (2.42%) Subversion
10 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.82%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.82%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.82%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.15%) Finance
3 19 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.48%) Banking
5 13 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Military
7 3 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.21%) Electronics
8 2 (1.21%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (24.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (16.97%) Senior
4 21 (12.73%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (8.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) Network Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Architect
8 10 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (4.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.24%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (8.48%) REST
3 11 (6.67%) SOAP
4 9 (5.45%) Kafka
5 8 (4.85%) Spring
6 7 (4.24%) J2EE
7 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.64%) LDAP
7 6 (3.64%) Web Services
7 6 (3.64%) YAML
8 5 (3.03%) ARM Templates
8 5 (3.03%) Node.js
8 5 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.42%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.42%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.42%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.82%) CSS
10 3 (1.82%) HTML
10 3 (1.82%) JSON
10 3 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.88%) Clustering
3 11 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.67%) PKI
4 8 (4.85%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.64%) Replication
6 5 (3.03%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.82%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 119 (72.12%) Linux
2 62 (37.58%) Windows
3 36 (21.82%) Windows Server
4 34 (20.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (11.52%) Unix
6 13 (7.88%) CentOS
7 9 (5.45%) AIX
7 9 (5.45%) Ubuntu
8 7 (4.24%) Solaris
9 4 (2.42%) HPUX
9 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.82%) VMS
11 2 (1.21%) Debian
11 2 (1.21%) Rocky
11 2 (1.21%) SUSE
12 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (45.45%) DevOps
2 72 (43.64%) Configuration Management
3 61 (36.97%) Containerisation
4 52 (31.52%) CI/CD
5 43 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (23.64%) Deployment Automation
6 39 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (19.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (17.58%) Agile
9 28 (16.97%) Infrastructure Automation
9 28 (16.97%) Service Management
10 23 (13.94%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (10.91%) High Availability
11 18 (10.91%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.70%) Task Automation
13 15 (9.09%) Validation
14 13 (7.88%) Microservices
15 11 (6.67%) DevSecOps
15 11 (6.67%) Reverse Engineering
15 11 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (64.85%) Python
2 77 (46.67%) Bash
3 66 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 33 (20.00%) Java
5 13 (7.88%) Perl
6 12 (7.27%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.67%) Ruby
8 8 (4.85%) SQL
9 4 (2.42%) Bicep
10 3 (1.82%) C#
10 3 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.21%) C++
11 2 (1.21%) Korn
12 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.61%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.61%) C-shell
12 1 (0.61%) Go
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 68 (41.21%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.94%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.30%) Degree
5 12 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.67%) CCNP
6 11 (6.67%) RHCE
7 10 (6.06%) OCA
7 10 (6.06%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (6.06%) RHCA
7 10 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.85%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.21%) CCIE
13 1 (0.61%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.03%) NIST
1 5 (3.03%) QA
2 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.82%) SLA
3 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) COBIT
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (45.45%) Docker
2 45 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.36%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.48%) Active Directory
5 11 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (5.45%) BitLocker
6 9 (5.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.45%) Terminal Services
7 5 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (1.82%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (1.82%) iptables
8 3 (1.82%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.21%) KVM
9 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.61%) Firmware
10 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 140 (84.85%) Ansible
2 80 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 77 (46.67%) Terraform
4 69 (41.82%) Progress Chef
5 21 (12.73%) Grafana
5 21 (12.73%) Prometheus
6 20 (12.12%) vCenter Server
7 16 (9.70%) Nagios
8 9 (5.45%) vMotion
9 7 (4.24%) Salt
10 6 (3.64%) ZABBIX
11 4 (2.42%) FortiGate
11 4 (2.42%) Graylog
11 4 (2.42%) Packer
12 3 (1.82%) Automic
12 3 (1.82%) Istio
12 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.82%) Proxmox
12 3 (1.82%) Rundeck
12 3 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (35.15%) VMware
2 45 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 23 (13.94%) Microsoft
4 22 (13.33%) Oracle
5 19 (11.52%) Cisco
6 15 (9.09%) Google
7 13 (7.88%) HP
8 11 (6.67%) Splunk
9 10 (6.06%) Citrix
10 9 (5.45%) Atlassian
10 9 (5.45%) Symantec
11 5 (3.03%) Arista
11 5 (3.03%) EMC
11 5 (3.03%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (3.03%) Veritas
12 4 (2.42%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (2.42%) SAP
13 3 (1.82%) NetApp
13 3 (1.82%) Nokia