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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 342 352
Rank change year-on-year -116 +10 -52
Contract jobs citing Puppet 103 142 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.97% 3.63% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 82 155
10th Percentile £436 £415 £416
25th Percentile £500 £511 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £660
90th Percentile £697 £676 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £577 £568
% change year-on-year -8.15% +1.67% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £23.45 £52.60
25th Percentile - £35.38 £62.13
Median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.85% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £75.38 -
90th Percentile - £87.15 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -26.00% +15.38%

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 5,228 3,912 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 15.00% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,547 3,382
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
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 118 46 152
10th Percentile £17.18 £13.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £20.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +94.65% -35.25% -19.39%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £75.97 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%

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 February 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 February 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 -24 33 £525 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -23 31 £550 +10.00% 3
London -66 27 £553 -1.34% 8
North of England -68 21 £525 -9.09% 5
Yorkshire -50 20 £523 -9.52% 1
South East -29 13 £650 +35.42% 4
East of England -20 4 £619 +3.13% 2
South West -47 4 £575 -6.50% 10
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
North West -36 1 £525 -4.55% 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 13 (12.62%) Apache
2 9 (8.74%) Confluence
3 8 (7.77%) JBoss
3 8 (7.77%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.83%) OpenStack
5 5 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.94%) SAS
7 1 (0.97%) IIS
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Weka
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 54 (52.43%) AWS
2 27 (26.21%) Azure
3 23 (22.33%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (20.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (18.45%) GitHub
6 17 (16.50%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (16.50%) Amazon S3
6 17 (16.50%) GCP
7 16 (15.53%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (11.65%) IaaS
8 12 (11.65%) Serverless
9 11 (10.68%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (7.77%) Azure AKS
13 7 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (6.80%) Datadog
13 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
14 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) DNS
1 9 (8.74%) VPN
2 8 (7.77%) Firewall
2 8 (7.77%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.83%) DHCP
4 4 (3.88%) Network Security
4 4 (3.88%) SMTP
5 2 (1.94%) HTTP
5 2 (1.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.97%) Internet
6 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.97%) MQTT
6 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.42%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (14.56%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.83%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.85%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.85%) HBase
7 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.91%) MySQL
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (27.18%) Git
2 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
3 18 (17.48%) GitLab
4 12 (11.65%) JIRA
4 12 (11.65%) JUnit
4 12 (11.65%) Selenium
5 9 (8.74%) Bitbucket
6 8 (7.77%) Eclipse
6 8 (7.77%) IntelliJ
7 7 (6.80%) Artifactory
8 6 (5.83%) Gradle
8 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
8 6 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.85%) CircleCI
9 5 (4.85%) Maven
10 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.88%) Postman
10 4 (3.88%) Snyk
10 4 (3.88%) webpack
11 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.74%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Finance
5 8 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Site Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 6 (5.83%) Senior
7 5 (4.85%) Architect
7 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Hadoop Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) NetApp Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.21%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (16.50%) REST
3 13 (12.62%) JSON
3 13 (12.62%) YAML
4 9 (8.74%) XML
5 8 (7.77%) EJB
5 8 (7.77%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.77%) HTML
5 8 (7.77%) HTML5
5 8 (7.77%) J2EE
5 8 (7.77%) J2SE
5 8 (7.77%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.77%) SOAP
5 8 (7.77%) Spring
6 5 (4.85%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (3.88%) Kafka
8 3 (2.91%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.94%) Loki
9 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Management Information System
2 13 (12.62%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (5.83%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Clustering
5 4 (3.88%) PKI
5 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.97%) CMDB
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 69 (66.99%) Linux
2 28 (27.18%) Unix
3 12 (11.65%) CentOS
3 12 (11.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (9.71%) Ubuntu
4 10 (9.71%) Windows
5 7 (6.80%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.02%) DevOps
2 60 (58.25%) CI/CD
3 50 (48.54%) Containerisation
4 46 (44.66%) Configuration Management
5 45 (43.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (36.89%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (32.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (28.16%) Agile
9 28 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (25.24%) Observability
11 20 (19.42%) Computer Science
11 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
12 18 (17.48%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (17.48%) Incident Response
12 18 (17.48%) Migration
13 17 (16.50%) Change Management
14 15 (14.56%) Microservices
15 14 (13.59%) Analytics
15 14 (13.59%) Data Modelling
15 14 (13.59%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 68 (66.02%) Python
2 44 (42.72%) Bash
3 17 (16.50%) Java
4 14 (13.59%) SQL
5 12 (11.65%) Shell Script
6 11 (10.68%) Perl
7 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.74%) Ruby
8 8 (7.77%) Scala
9 2 (1.94%) C++
9 2 (1.94%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) Groovy
10 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) Degree
3 19 (18.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (13.59%) SC Cleared
5 12 (11.65%) DV Cleared
5 12 (11.65%) RHCE
6 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.88%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (61.17%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.85%) HDFS
4 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.88%) BitLocker
5 4 (3.88%) GPFS
5 4 (3.88%) KVM
5 4 (3.88%) Lustre
5 4 (3.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (3.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (85.44%) Ansible
2 50 (48.54%) Kubernetes
3 43 (41.75%) Terraform
4 28 (27.18%) Progress Chef
5 22 (21.36%) Grafana
6 16 (15.53%) Prometheus
7 15 (14.56%) Kibana
8 6 (5.83%) NetBackup
8 6 (5.83%) Podman
9 5 (4.85%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (4.85%) Salt
10 4 (3.88%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.88%) vMotion
11 3 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.94%) Argo
12 2 (1.94%) Istio
13 1 (0.97%) Ambari
13 1 (0.97%) Consul
13 1 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Splunk
2 18 (17.48%) Red Hat
3 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.74%) VMware
5 8 (7.77%) PagerDuty
5 8 (7.77%) webMethods
6 6 (5.83%) Commvault
7 4 (3.88%) Citrix
7 4 (3.88%) NetApp
8 2 (1.94%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.94%) Dell
8 2 (1.94%) New Relic
8 2 (1.94%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.97%) Google
9 1 (0.97%) HP
9 1 (0.97%) Intel
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle
9 1 (0.97%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow