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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 307 364
Rank change year-on-year -168 +57 -41
Contract jobs citing Puppet 99 171 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.71% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.79% 4.45% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 123 139
10th Percentile £432 £375 £407
25th Percentile £500 £440 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £560 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £677
90th Percentile £651 £671 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -5.36% -2.61% -4.17%
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +35.71% -2.10%

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 5,542 3,839 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.45% 15.84% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,825 2,637 3,266
10th Percentile £313 £316 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 39 124
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.86 £22.32 £17.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.74 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -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 3 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 3 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 -103 32 £575 +9.52% 5
North of England -70 23 £500 +23.46% 6
Yorkshire -54 22 £500 +20.48% 2
Midlands -47 21 £525 +61.04% 3
West Midlands -49 17 £550 - 2
South East -63 10 £650 +18.18% 5
South West -62 7 £553 -7.92% 7
East Midlands -28 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -37 2 £550 - 1
North West -56 1 £300 -25.37% 3
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 17 (17.17%) Confluence
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (4.04%) JBoss
2 4 (4.04%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.03%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.01%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Weka
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.41%) AWS
2 29 (29.29%) Azure
3 26 (26.26%) GitHub
4 18 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (15.15%) IaaS
6 14 (14.14%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (14.14%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (14.14%) Amazon S3
6 14 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (13.13%) GCP
8 12 (12.12%) Azure AKS
8 12 (12.12%) Serverless
9 8 (8.08%) CloudBees
9 8 (8.08%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.07%) PaaS
11 6 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) VPN
2 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 10 (10.10%) Firewall
3 7 (7.07%) DHCP
3 7 (7.07%) SMTP
4 5 (5.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.04%) Network Security
6 2 (2.02%) HTTP
6 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.02%) SAN
7 1 (1.01%) Internet
7 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.01%) MQTT
7 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.17%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (2.02%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 33 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (28.28%) Git
3 21 (21.21%) GitLab
4 19 (19.19%) JIRA
5 9 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 9 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.06%) JUnit
6 6 (6.06%) Selenium
6 6 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.04%) Eclipse
8 4 (4.04%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.03%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.03%) Gradle
10 2 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.02%) Maven
10 2 (2.02%) Postman
10 2 (2.02%) Snyk
10 2 (2.02%) webpack
General
1 38 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.12%) Finance
2 12 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.10%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (9.09%) Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.01%) Military
8 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (21.21%) Site Engineer
3 19 (19.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Senior
5 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Lead
9 7 (7.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Architect
9 7 (7.07%) NetApp Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Storage Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (16.16%) YAML
3 14 (14.14%) REST
4 8 (8.08%) JSON
5 5 (5.05%) SOAP
5 5 (5.05%) XML
6 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.04%) EJB
6 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.04%) HTML
6 4 (4.04%) HTML5
6 4 (4.04%) J2EE
6 4 (4.04%) J2SE
6 4 (4.04%) Kafka
6 4 (4.04%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.04%) Spring
7 3 (3.03%) ADO
7 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.02%) Loki
8 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.08%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.08%) PKI
4 7 (7.07%) Clustering
5 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.02%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) CMDB
8 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (62.63%) Linux
2 21 (21.21%) Unix
3 17 (17.17%) Windows
4 15 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (11.11%) Windows Server
6 9 (9.09%) CentOS
6 9 (9.09%) Ubuntu
7 7 (7.07%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.65%) DevOps
2 62 (62.63%) CI/CD
3 44 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 43 (43.43%) Configuration Management
5 41 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (28.28%) Agile
7 28 (28.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (21.21%) Observability
9 18 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 18 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 17 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (15.15%) Incident Response
12 15 (15.15%) Microservices
13 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
14 13 (13.13%) Data Protection
15 12 (12.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (67.68%) Python
2 48 (48.48%) Bash
3 19 (19.19%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.15%) Java
5 9 (9.09%) Ruby
6 8 (8.08%) Perl
6 8 (8.08%) Shell Script
6 8 (8.08%) SQL
7 5 (5.05%) Bicep
8 4 (4.04%) Scala
9 2 (2.02%) Go
10 1 (1.01%) C++
10 1 (1.01%) Groovy
10 1 (1.01%) Jython
10 1 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.16%) Degree
4 14 (14.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (14.14%) DV Cleared
5 11 (11.11%) RHCE
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.03%) CCNP
7 3 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.03%) OCA
7 3 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (3.03%) RHCA
7 3 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (56.57%) Docker
2 12 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.08%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.07%) BitLocker
5 7 (7.07%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (7.07%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.02%) GPFS
6 2 (2.02%) Lustre
6 2 (2.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.02%) SRDF
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (89.90%) Ansible
2 48 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 40 (40.40%) Terraform
4 32 (32.32%) Progress Chef
5 23 (23.23%) Grafana
6 17 (17.17%) Prometheus
7 11 (11.11%) NetBackup
8 10 (10.10%) Kibana
9 7 (7.07%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.07%) vMotion
10 4 (4.04%) Istio
10 4 (4.04%) Podman
10 4 (4.04%) Salt
11 3 (3.03%) Argo
11 3 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.01%) CA Wily
12 1 (1.01%) logstash
12 1 (1.01%) Nagios
12 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.20%) Red Hat
2 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.13%) Splunk
3 13 (13.13%) VMware
4 10 (10.10%) Commvault
5 8 (8.08%) PagerDuty
6 7 (7.07%) Citrix
6 7 (7.07%) NetApp
6 7 (7.07%) Veritas
7 4 (4.04%) Broadcom
7 4 (4.04%) Databricks
7 4 (4.04%) webMethods
8 3 (3.03%) Dell
9 2 (2.02%) Cisco
9 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.02%) Google
9 2 (2.02%) HP
9 2 (2.02%) New Relic
9 2 (2.02%) SaltStack
9 2 (2.02%) TOWER Software