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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 339 344
Rank change year-on-year -121 +5 -29
Contract jobs citing Puppet 107 143 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.95% 3.67% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 88 151
10th Percentile £430 £404 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £688
90th Percentile £644 £705 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -7.83% -0.43% -2.94%
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% -26.92%
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% +7.69%

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 5,478 3,895 4,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.08% 15.36% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,779 2,570 3,278
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 41 139
10th Percentile £18.74 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -24.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £85.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%

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 March 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 5 March 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
Midlands -39 28 £525 +27.12% 4
London -82 27 £575 +3.60% 4
West Midlands -33 26 £495 -1.00% 4
North of England -57 25 £510 +2.00% 5
Yorkshire -53 23 £510 +6.81% 1
South East -48 13 £650 +32.99% 8
South West -53 6 £553 -10.16% 14
East of England -25 4 £619 +12.50% 1
East Midlands -29 2 £525 +61.04%
North West -44 2 £413 -17.50% 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 15 (14.02%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) Apache
2 8 (7.48%) JBoss
2 8 (7.48%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Weka
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (49.53%) AWS
2 25 (23.36%) Azure
3 22 (20.56%) Amazon EKS
3 22 (20.56%) GitHub
4 20 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (15.89%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (15.89%) Amazon S3
5 17 (15.89%) GCP
6 16 (14.95%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (13.08%) Serverless
8 13 (12.15%) IaaS
9 11 (10.28%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
12 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.61%) CloudBees
13 6 (5.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) VPN
2 10 (9.35%) DNS
2 10 (9.35%) Firewall
3 8 (7.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.54%) DHCP
5 5 (4.67%) SMTP
6 4 (3.74%) Network Security
7 2 (1.87%) HTTP
7 2 (1.87%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.87%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.93%) Internet
8 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.93%) MQTT
8 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (14.02%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.41%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.80%) MySQL
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (28.04%) Git
2 29 (27.10%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.82%) GitLab
3 18 (16.82%) JIRA
4 11 (10.28%) JUnit
4 11 (10.28%) Selenium
5 10 (9.35%) Bitbucket
6 8 (7.48%) Eclipse
6 8 (7.48%) IntelliJ
7 7 (6.54%) Artifactory
8 5 (4.67%) Gradle
8 5 (4.67%) SonarQube
8 5 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.74%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.74%) Maven
10 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.80%) Postman
10 3 (2.80%) Snyk
10 3 (2.80%) webpack
11 2 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.35%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Finance
6 8 (7.48%) Banking
6 8 (7.48%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Site Engineer
2 23 (21.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (21.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (12.15%) Splunk Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Lead
7 7 (6.54%) Senior
8 6 (5.61%) Architect
9 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) NetApp Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Storage Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.80%) Consultant
11 3 (2.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.36%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (17.76%) REST
3 12 (11.21%) JSON
3 12 (11.21%) YAML
4 9 (8.41%) SOAP
4 9 (8.41%) XML
5 8 (7.48%) EJB
5 8 (7.48%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.48%) HTML
5 8 (7.48%) HTML5
5 8 (7.48%) J2EE
5 8 (7.48%) J2SE
5 8 (7.48%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.48%) Spring
6 4 (3.74%) Kafka
7 3 (2.80%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.87%) Loki
8 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.93%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Cloud Native
1 13 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (4.67%) Clustering
3 5 (4.67%) PKI
3 5 (4.67%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (61.68%) Linux
2 29 (27.10%) Unix
3 14 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (13.08%) Windows
4 12 (11.21%) CentOS
5 11 (10.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (7.48%) Windows Server
7 5 (4.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (66.36%) DevOps
2 60 (56.07%) CI/CD
3 49 (45.79%) Containerisation
4 46 (42.99%) Configuration Management
5 45 (42.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (29.91%) Agile
7 32 (29.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (23.36%) Observability
10 23 (21.50%) Software Engineering
11 19 (17.76%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (17.76%) Migration
12 18 (16.82%) Computer Science
13 17 (15.89%) Incident Response
13 17 (15.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (15.89%) Test Automation
14 16 (14.95%) Change Management
15 15 (14.02%) Microservices
16 14 (13.08%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 71 (66.36%) Python
2 53 (49.53%) Bash
3 17 (15.89%) Java
4 14 (13.08%) SQL
5 11 (10.28%) Perl
5 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.41%) Ruby
7 8 (7.48%) Scala
7 8 (7.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.87%) C++
8 2 (1.87%) Go
8 2 (1.87%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.63%) Degree
3 18 (16.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
5 14 (13.08%) RHCE
6 12 (11.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.80%) CCNP
8 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.80%) OCA
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.80%) RHCA
8 3 (2.80%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (58.88%) Docker
2 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.67%) BitLocker
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.74%) GPFS
6 4 (3.74%) Lustre
6 4 (3.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.80%) KVM
8 2 (1.87%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 93 (86.92%) Ansible
2 50 (46.73%) Kubernetes
3 40 (37.38%) Terraform
4 34 (31.78%) Progress Chef
5 22 (20.56%) Grafana
6 16 (14.95%) Prometheus
7 14 (13.08%) Kibana
8 10 (9.35%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.61%) Salt
10 5 (4.67%) Podman
10 5 (4.67%) vCenter Server
10 5 (4.67%) vMotion
11 3 (2.80%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.87%) Argo
12 2 (1.87%) Istio
12 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.93%) Ambari
13 1 (0.93%) Consul
13 1 (0.93%) logstash
13 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Red Hat
2 19 (17.76%) Splunk
3 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
4 14 (13.08%) VMware
5 9 (8.41%) Commvault
6 8 (7.48%) PagerDuty
6 8 (7.48%) webMethods
7 5 (4.67%) Citrix
7 5 (4.67%) NetApp
7 5 (4.67%) Veritas
8 4 (3.74%) Broadcom
9 3 (2.80%) Dell
10 2 (1.87%) Cisco
10 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.87%) Google
10 2 (1.87%) HP
10 2 (1.87%) New Relic
10 2 (1.87%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.93%) SaltStack