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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 357 364
Rank change year-on-year -169 +7 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 100 159 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.99% 4.15% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 118 121
10th Percentile £400 £357 £450
25th Percentile £454 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.62% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £625
90th Percentile £735 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £561
% change year-on-year +9.52% -6.42% -6.50%
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 5,028 3,831 3,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.99% 13.80% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,537 2,776
10th Percentile £307 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £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 £710
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.57% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 60 59
10th Percentile £21.43 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.72 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.23 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -85 60 £530 +0.95% 28
South East -62 15 £650 +13.04% 6
Midlands -47 10 £600 +6.67% 1
West Midlands -44 8 £600 +6.67% 1
East of England -18 5 £400 -17.10% 3
North of England -96 5 £500 +25.00% 34
South West -61 4 £575 -4.17% 20
Yorkshire -71 3 £552 +38.00% 7
North West -48 2 £400 +19.40% 23
East Midlands - 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 (7.00%) JBoss
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.00%) Confluence
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.00%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 55 (55.00%) AWS
2 47 (47.00%) Azure
3 25 (25.00%) GitHub
4 21 (21.00%) GCP
5 20 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (17.00%) Datadog
7 14 (14.00%) Serverless
8 13 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (11.00%) IaaS
9 11 (11.00%) OpenShift
10 10 (10.00%) Amazon S3
10 10 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (8.00%) Entra ID
13 7 (7.00%) Azure AKS
14 6 (6.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.00%) DNS
1 16 (16.00%) Firewall
2 11 (11.00%) VPN
3 8 (8.00%) DHCP
3 8 (8.00%) SSL
4 7 (7.00%) Kerberos
4 7 (7.00%) Network Security
5 6 (6.00%) SMTP
5 6 (6.00%) WAN
6 4 (4.00%) MQTT
6 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.00%) BGP
7 2 (2.00%) MPLS
7 2 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.00%) SAN
8 1 (1.00%) IPv4
8 1 (1.00%) IPv6
8 1 (1.00%) OSPF
8 1 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.00%) Big Data
3 8 (8.00%) Hadoop
4 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.00%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 39 (39.00%) GitLab
2 35 (35.00%) Git
2 35 (35.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.00%) Artifactory
4 8 (8.00%) JIRA
4 8 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.00%) Subversion
8 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.00%) Gradle
8 1 (1.00%) Introscope
8 1 (1.00%) JUnit
8 1 (1.00%) Maven
8 1 (1.00%) Postman
8 1 (1.00%) Selenium
8 1 (1.00%) Snyk
8 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Finance
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Banking
6 3 (3.00%) Publishing
7 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Law
7 2 (2.00%) Military
7 2 (2.00%) Police
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (17.00%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (14.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Senior
5 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Network Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Administrator
9 5 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (62.00%) Terraform
2 11 (11.00%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (10.00%) Kafka
4 9 (9.00%) YAML
5 8 (8.00%) Keycloak
6 7 (7.00%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.00%) gRPC
7 4 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (4.00%) RESTful
8 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.00%) JSON
8 3 (3.00%) REST
9 2 (2.00%) ADO
9 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.00%) LAPP Stack
9 2 (2.00%) Loki
9 2 (2.00%) Node.js
10 1 (1.00%) boto
10 1 (1.00%) OAuth
10 1 (1.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.00%) Private Cloud
3 13 (13.00%) Clustering
4 11 (11.00%) PKI
5 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
10 1 (1.00%) NHS
10 1 (1.00%) PMI
10 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.00%) Replication
10 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (80.00%) Linux
2 38 (38.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (26.00%) Windows
4 14 (14.00%) Unix
5 10 (10.00%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.00%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.00%) CentOS
8 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (2.00%) AIX
11 1 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (62.00%) CI/CD
2 59 (59.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (58.00%) DevOps
4 51 (51.00%) Configuration Management
5 38 (38.00%) Containerisation
6 23 (23.00%) Agile
7 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (22.00%) Observability
7 22 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (21.00%) Test Automation
9 19 (19.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (16.00%) Task Automation
12 15 (15.00%) AI
12 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (15.00%) Microservices
12 15 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (14.00%) Incident Management
13 14 (14.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (78.00%) Python
2 54 (54.00%) Bash
3 42 (42.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.00%) Java
5 9 (9.00%) C++
6 8 (8.00%) Perl
7 7 (7.00%) C
7 7 (7.00%) Go
7 7 (7.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.00%) Bicep
8 5 (5.00%) SQL
9 4 (4.00%) Rust
9 4 (4.00%) Scala
10 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.00%) Ruby
11 2 (2.00%) Groovy
11 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.00%) C#
12 1 (1.00%) Jython
Qualifications
1 49 (49.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (23.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.00%) CISSP
10 2 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.00%) SSCP
11 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.00%) CCIE
11 1 (1.00%) CCNP
11 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) QA
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.00%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (46.00%) Docker
2 20 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (13.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (9.00%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (7.00%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.00%) BitLocker
6 6 (6.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (3.00%) Terminal Services
8 2 (2.00%) HDFS
8 2 (2.00%) NFS
8 2 (2.00%) Squid
8 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.00%) GPFS
9 1 (1.00%) Lustre
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.00%) Samba
9 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 80 (80.00%) Ansible
2 52 (52.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (41.00%) Progress Chef
4 33 (33.00%) Prometheus
5 32 (32.00%) Grafana
6 9 (9.00%) vCenter Server
7 7 (7.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (6.00%) vMotion
9 5 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (5.00%) Podman
9 5 (5.00%) Salt
10 4 (4.00%) Nagios
10 4 (4.00%) NetBackup
10 4 (4.00%) Packer
11 3 (3.00%) Argo
11 3 (3.00%) Istio
11 3 (3.00%) systemd
11 3 (3.00%) yum
12 2 (2.00%) Control-M
12 2 (2.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 22 (22.00%) VMware
3 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.00%) Google
4 10 (10.00%) SaltStack
5 8 (8.00%) Cisco
5 8 (8.00%) Splunk
6 6 (6.00%) Citrix
6 6 (6.00%) Databricks
6 6 (6.00%) Tenable
7 5 (5.00%) NetApp
8 4 (4.00%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.00%) Oracle
8 4 (4.00%) PagerDuty
8 4 (4.00%) Veritas
9 3 (3.00%) HP
9 3 (3.00%) Symantec
10 2 (2.00%) Commvault
10 2 (2.00%) EMC
10 2 (2.00%) Informatica