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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 301 365
Rank change year-on-year -190 +64 -44
Contract jobs citing Puppet 97 171 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.70% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.76% 4.47% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 126 129
10th Percentile £430 £375 £411
25th Percentile £500 £440 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £573 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -6.88%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £688
90th Percentile £643 £688 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £573 £582
% change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -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 £61.25
% change year-on-year -34.74% +55.10% -16.10%

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 5,515 3,824 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.07% 15.68% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,814 2,643 3,180
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 36 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.25 £22.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.88 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +110.23% +4.31% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.38 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.15 £78.10 £69.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -93 34 £553 +5.24% 11
North of England -72 20 £500 +23.46% 10
Midlands -47 19 £525 +61.04% 5
Yorkshire -49 19 £500 +20.48% 2
West Midlands -47 15 £495 - 4
South East -61 10 £650 +13.04% 4
South West -64 7 £553 -7.92% 9
East Midlands -28 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -29 3 £625 +13.64% 4
North West -49 1 £300 -25.37% 5
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 (14.43%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) JBoss
2 4 (4.12%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.09%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.03%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Weka
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.36%) AWS
2 30 (30.93%) Azure
3 22 (22.68%) GitHub
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (16.49%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (15.46%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.46%) IaaS
8 13 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (13.40%) GCP
8 13 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (13.40%) Serverless
9 11 (11.34%) Azure AKS
10 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.22%) CloudBees
10 7 (7.22%) Entra ID
10 7 (7.22%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.22%) PaaS
11 6 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Firewall
1 12 (12.37%) VPN
2 9 (9.28%) DNS
3 7 (7.22%) DHCP
3 7 (7.22%) SMTP
4 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.12%) Network Security
5 4 (4.12%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.06%) HTTP
6 2 (2.06%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.06%) SAN
7 1 (1.03%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.03%) Internet
7 1 (1.03%) MQTT
7 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.06%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (30.93%) Jenkins
2 28 (28.87%) Git
3 23 (23.71%) GitLab
4 16 (16.49%) JIRA
5 9 (9.28%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.25%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.15%) JUnit
7 5 (5.15%) Selenium
7 5 (5.15%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.12%) Eclipse
8 4 (4.12%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.03%) Gradle
10 1 (1.03%) Introscope
10 1 (1.03%) Maven
10 1 (1.03%) Travis CI
10 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 11 (11.34%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.25%) Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Military
9 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Law
9 2 (2.06%) Police
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Site Engineer
2 19 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (18.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Lead
7 8 (8.25%) Splunk Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Architect
8 7 (7.22%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.46%) YAML
3 12 (12.37%) REST
4 7 (7.22%) JSON
5 5 (5.15%) Kafka
5 5 (5.15%) SOAP
5 5 (5.15%) XML
6 4 (4.12%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.12%) EJB
6 4 (4.12%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.12%) HTML
6 4 (4.12%) HTML5
6 4 (4.12%) J2EE
6 4 (4.12%) J2SE
6 4 (4.12%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.12%) Spring
7 3 (3.09%) ADO
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.06%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) PKI
3 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.22%) Clustering
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.06%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.03%) CMDB
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) PMI
8 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (63.92%) Linux
2 20 (20.62%) Unix
3 16 (16.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (16.49%) Windows
4 10 (10.31%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.28%) CentOS
6 7 (7.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.98%) CI/CD
2 63 (64.95%) DevOps
3 45 (46.39%) Containerisation
3 45 (46.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (42.27%) Configuration Management
5 29 (29.90%) Agile
6 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (28.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (21.65%) Observability
8 20 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (18.56%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Automation
10 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (17.53%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.49%) Microservices
12 15 (15.46%) Incident Response
12 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
13 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
14 12 (12.37%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (67.01%) Python
2 47 (48.45%) Bash
3 19 (19.59%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.46%) Java
5 10 (10.31%) Ruby
6 9 (9.28%) Perl
6 9 (9.28%) SQL
7 8 (8.25%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.15%) Bicep
9 4 (4.12%) Scala
10 2 (2.06%) C++
10 2 (2.06%) Go
11 1 (1.03%) Jython
11 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) Degree
4 14 (14.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (13.40%) DV Cleared
6 11 (11.34%) RHCE
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.09%) CCNP
9 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.09%) OCA
9 3 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.09%) RHCA
9 3 (3.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (57.73%) Docker
2 13 (13.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.25%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.22%) BitLocker
5 7 (7.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.09%) GPFS
6 3 (3.09%) Lustre
6 3 (3.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (2.06%) SRDF
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (90.72%) Ansible
2 49 (50.52%) Kubernetes
3 43 (44.33%) Terraform
4 30 (30.93%) Progress Chef
5 25 (25.77%) Grafana
6 19 (19.59%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.28%) Kibana
8 8 (8.25%) NetBackup
9 7 (7.22%) Salt
9 7 (7.22%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.22%) vMotion
10 4 (4.12%) Istio
11 3 (3.09%) Argo
11 3 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (3.09%) Podman
12 1 (1.03%) CA Wily
12 1 (1.03%) Consul
12 1 (1.03%) logstash
12 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.53%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.40%) VMware
4 11 (11.34%) Splunk
5 8 (8.25%) PagerDuty
6 7 (7.22%) Citrix
6 7 (7.22%) Commvault
6 7 (7.22%) NetApp
6 7 (7.22%) Veritas
7 4 (4.12%) Broadcom
7 4 (4.12%) Databricks
7 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.12%) webMethods
8 3 (3.09%) Dell
9 2 (2.06%) Cisco
9 2 (2.06%) Google
9 2 (2.06%) HP
9 2 (2.06%) New Relic
9 2 (2.06%) TOWER Software
10 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow