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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 325 367
Rank change year-on-year -141 +42 -40
Contract jobs citing Puppet 105 157 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.95% 4.04% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 101 140
10th Percentile £430 £388 £413
25th Percentile £500 £488 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.20% -6.88%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £688
90th Percentile £644 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £573 £578
% change year-on-year -7.42% -0.87% -3.75%
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 5,377 3,888 4,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.76% 15.78% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,702 2,605 3,295
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 41 142
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.55 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -23.57% -33.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £59.69
90th Percentile £76.95 £85.25 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -32.00% -28.07%

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 12 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 12 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
London -85 27 £575 +4.55% 7
Midlands -41 26 £525 +27.12% 4
West Midlands -42 24 £495 -1.00% 4
North of England -66 24 £500 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire -54 23 £500 +17.65% 2
South East -46 14 £590 +21.03% 5
South West -48 6 £553 -7.92% 16
East of England -24 4 £619 +12.50%
East Midlands -32 2 £525 +61.04%
North West -46 1 £300 -40.00% 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 16 (15.24%) Confluence
2 8 (7.62%) Apache
2 8 (7.62%) JBoss
2 8 (7.62%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.95%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.95%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Weka
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) AWS
2 26 (24.76%) Azure
3 23 (21.90%) GitHub
4 22 (20.95%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (16.19%) GCP
7 16 (15.24%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (14.29%) Amazon S3
9 13 (12.38%) IaaS
10 12 (11.43%) Serverless
11 9 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (7.62%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (6.67%) CloudBees
14 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (5.71%) Datadog
15 5 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) VPN
2 10 (9.52%) DNS
2 10 (9.52%) Firewall
3 8 (7.62%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.67%) DHCP
5 5 (4.76%) SMTP
6 4 (3.81%) Network Security
7 2 (1.90%) HTTP
7 2 (1.90%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.90%) SAN
8 1 (0.95%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.95%) Internet
8 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.95%) MQTT
8 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (12.38%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.57%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.90%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.95%) MySQL
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Git
2 28 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 19 (18.10%) JIRA
4 16 (15.24%) GitLab
5 11 (10.48%) JUnit
5 11 (10.48%) Selenium
6 10 (9.52%) Bitbucket
7 8 (7.62%) Artifactory
7 8 (7.62%) Eclipse
7 8 (7.62%) IntelliJ
8 5 (4.76%) Gradle
8 5 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 5 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.81%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.81%) Maven
10 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.86%) Postman
10 3 (2.86%) Snyk
10 3 (2.86%) webpack
11 2 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 39 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Finance
5 9 (8.57%) Banking
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (21.90%) Site Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 11 (10.48%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (10.48%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Senior
6 6 (5.71%) Architect
7 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) NetApp Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (19.05%) REST
3 13 (12.38%) JSON
3 13 (12.38%) YAML
4 9 (8.57%) SOAP
4 9 (8.57%) XML
5 8 (7.62%) EJB
5 8 (7.62%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.62%) HTML
5 8 (7.62%) HTML5
5 8 (7.62%) J2EE
5 8 (7.62%) J2SE
5 8 (7.62%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.62%) Spring
6 4 (3.81%) Kafka
7 3 (2.86%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.90%) Loki
8 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.95%) RESTful
9 1 (0.95%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (5.71%) PKI
4 5 (4.76%) Clustering
4 5 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.90%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.95%) CMDB
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 64 (60.95%) Linux
2 28 (26.67%) Unix
3 15 (14.29%) Windows
4 14 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (10.48%) CentOS
5 11 (10.48%) Ubuntu
6 9 (8.57%) Windows Server
7 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.95%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.71%) DevOps
2 61 (58.10%) CI/CD
3 45 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 45 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 44 (41.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (29.52%) Agile
7 30 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 28 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (21.90%) Observability
9 23 (21.90%) Software Engineering
10 20 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 17 (16.19%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (15.24%) Computer Science
14 15 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
14 15 (14.29%) Incident Response
14 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (14.29%) Microservices
15 14 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (65.71%) Python
2 49 (46.67%) Bash
3 18 (17.14%) Java
4 14 (13.33%) SQL
5 12 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.48%) Perl
7 9 (8.57%) Ruby
8 8 (7.62%) Scala
8 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Go
9 2 (1.90%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) Jython
10 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) Degree
3 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
4 16 (15.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (12.38%) RHCE
6 12 (11.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.86%) CCNP
8 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.86%) OCA
8 3 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.86%) RHCA
8 3 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.90%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (56.19%) Docker
2 11 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.76%) BitLocker
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.81%) GPFS
6 4 (3.81%) Lustre
6 4 (3.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.90%) KVM
7 2 (1.90%) SRDF
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (85.71%) Ansible
2 46 (43.81%) Kubernetes
3 39 (37.14%) Terraform
4 32 (30.48%) Progress Chef
5 22 (20.95%) Grafana
6 16 (15.24%) Prometheus
7 12 (11.43%) Kibana
8 11 (10.48%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.71%) Salt
10 5 (4.76%) Podman
10 5 (4.76%) vCenter Server
10 5 (4.76%) vMotion
11 3 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.90%) Argo
12 2 (1.90%) Istio
13 1 (0.95%) CA Wily
13 1 (0.95%) Consul
13 1 (0.95%) logstash
13 1 (0.95%) Nagios
13 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (16.19%) Splunk
3 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.38%) VMware
5 10 (9.52%) Commvault
6 8 (7.62%) PagerDuty
6 8 (7.62%) webMethods
7 6 (5.71%) Veritas
8 5 (4.76%) Citrix
8 5 (4.76%) NetApp
9 4 (3.81%) Broadcom
10 3 (2.86%) Dell
11 2 (1.90%) Cisco
11 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.90%) Google
11 2 (1.90%) HP
11 2 (1.90%) New Relic
11 2 (1.90%) Oracle
11 2 (1.90%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.95%) SaltStack