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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 348 333
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 -69
Contract jobs citing Puppet 134 180 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.55% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.06% 3.99% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 121 212
10th Percentile £358 £450 £475
25th Percentile £458 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -6.39% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £587
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.13% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - £15.50 -
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -79.49% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - £87.83
UK median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
% 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 4,375 4,512 6,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.69% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 3,076 4,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 160
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.48
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.69
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.13
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -44 53 £525 -4.55% 10
North of England -25 28 £463 -25.64% 3
Yorkshire -13 26 £463 -25.64%
South West +13 16 £628 +10.09% 6
West Midlands -7 16 £550 -5.50% 3
Midlands -14 16 £550 -5.50% 10
South East +9 13 £575 +0.44% 7
East of England - 6 £366 - 1
North West -10 2 £397 -33.92% 3
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.45%) Apache
2 9 (6.72%) Confluence
2 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.48%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.73%) JBoss
5 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.99%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.24%) SAS
7 2 (1.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.49%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.75%) CICS
8 1 (0.75%) IIS
8 1 (0.75%) Luigi
8 1 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 84 (62.69%) AWS
2 38 (28.36%) GitHub
3 37 (27.61%) GCP
4 36 (26.87%) Azure
5 33 (24.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.45%) OpenShift
9 13 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (8.21%) PaaS
11 10 (7.46%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (7.46%) IaaS
11 10 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (5.97%) Amazon S3
13 7 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (5.22%) Serverless
14 6 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 38 (28.36%) Firewall
2 30 (22.39%) DNS
2 30 (22.39%) TCP/IP
3 17 (12.69%) VPN
4 12 (8.96%) DHCP
5 9 (6.72%) SMTP
6 7 (5.22%) HTTP
7 6 (4.48%) Internet
8 2 (1.49%) Network Security
8 2 (1.49%) SSL
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.75%) FCoE
9 1 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.75%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.75%) Multicast
9 1 (0.75%) NAS
9 1 (0.75%) SAN
9 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.42%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (7.46%) Big Data
4 9 (6.72%) Hadoop
5 8 (5.97%) MySQL
5 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.73%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.73%) HBase
7 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.24%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.75%) ArangoDB
10 1 (0.75%) Azkaban
10 1 (0.75%) MemSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Power BI
10 1 (0.75%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 60 (44.78%) Jenkins
2 46 (34.33%) Git
3 37 (27.61%) GitLab
4 19 (14.18%) Postman
5 15 (11.19%) JIRA
6 14 (10.45%) Bitbucket
7 13 (9.70%) Artifactory
8 9 (6.72%) Selenium
9 8 (5.97%) JUnit
9 8 (5.97%) Maven
10 7 (5.22%) Gradle
11 5 (3.73%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.73%) IntelliJ
11 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
11 5 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (3.73%) Subversion
12 4 (2.99%) Eclipse
12 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.99%) Vagrant
13 3 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 34 (25.37%) Finance
2 26 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.48%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.99%) Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Electronics
8 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.24%) Marketing
9 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.18%) Senior
3 17 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (9.70%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Technical Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Administrator
7 9 (6.72%) Windows Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (5.97%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Developer
8 8 (5.97%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (8.96%) REST
3 8 (5.97%) JSON
4 7 (5.22%) Node.js
4 7 (5.22%) YAML
5 6 (4.48%) SOAP
6 5 (3.73%) Hibernate
6 5 (3.73%) J2EE
6 5 (3.73%) Spark Streaming
6 5 (3.73%) Spring
7 4 (2.99%) EJB
7 4 (2.99%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.99%) HTML
7 4 (2.99%) HTML5
7 4 (2.99%) J2SE
7 4 (2.99%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.99%) XML
8 3 (2.24%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.24%) Kafka
8 3 (2.24%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Clustering
2 10 (7.46%) PKI
3 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Blog
5 3 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.24%) IVR
5 3 (2.24%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.49%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.49%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (56.72%) Linux
2 34 (25.37%) Windows
3 29 (21.64%) Unix
4 13 (9.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
5 10 (7.46%) CentOS
6 6 (4.48%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.99%) Solaris
7 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.24%) AIX
8 3 (2.24%) Debian
8 3 (2.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.75%) MVS
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.75%) SUSE
9 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (67.16%) DevOps
2 74 (55.22%) Configuration Management
3 64 (47.76%) CI/CD
4 58 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (38.06%) Containerisation
6 41 (30.60%) Agile
7 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (18.66%) Migration
9 18 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (13.43%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (11.19%) Microservices
10 15 (11.19%) Scrum
10 15 (11.19%) Task Automation
11 14 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (10.45%) Data Management
12 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (8.96%) DevSecOps
14 11 (8.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (66.42%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) Bash
3 27 (20.15%) PowerShell
4 22 (16.42%) Shell Script
5 14 (10.45%) Java
6 12 (8.96%) Go
6 12 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (8.21%) SQL
8 9 (6.72%) C++
8 9 (6.72%) Groovy
9 6 (4.48%) Scala
10 5 (3.73%) C#
10 5 (3.73%) Perl
10 5 (3.73%) PHP
11 4 (2.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.93%) Degree
2 20 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.94%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.70%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.73%) RHCE
8 4 (2.99%) CCNP
8 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.99%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.24%) CCNA
10 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.75%) OCA
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.49%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.49%) NIST
3 2 (1.49%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 67 (50.00%) Docker
2 39 (29.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.70%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (8.96%) Hyper-V
5 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
6 9 (6.72%) BitLocker
6 9 (6.72%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (6.72%) Terminal Services
7 8 (5.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (3.73%) HDFS
8 5 (3.73%) KVM
9 3 (2.24%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.75%) iptables
10 1 (0.75%) NFS
10 1 (0.75%) SRDF
10 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 108 (80.60%) Ansible
2 73 (54.48%) Terraform
3 60 (44.78%) Kubernetes
4 42 (31.34%) Progress Chef
5 22 (16.42%) Prometheus
6 20 (14.93%) Grafana
7 13 (9.70%) vCenter Server
8 11 (8.21%) Nagios
9 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (6.72%) vMotion
11 8 (5.97%) Salt
12 7 (5.22%) SCCM
13 5 (3.73%) Hadoop YARN
14 4 (2.99%) Istio
14 4 (2.99%) Kibana
14 4 (2.99%) NetBackup
14 4 (2.99%) Podman
15 3 (2.24%) Ambari
15 3 (2.24%) ZABBIX
16 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (31.34%) VMware
2 26 (19.40%) Microsoft
3 20 (14.93%) MuleSoft
4 17 (12.69%) Google
4 17 (12.69%) Splunk
5 15 (11.19%) Red Hat
6 10 (7.46%) Citrix
6 10 (7.46%) HP
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle
7 9 (6.72%) Symantec
8 4 (2.99%) Cisco
8 4 (2.99%) Commvault
8 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.99%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.99%) webMethods
9 3 (2.24%) Rackspace
9 3 (2.24%) SAP
10 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.49%) IBM
10 2 (1.49%) Zend