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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 339 359
Rank change year-on-year -180 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Puppet 103 174 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.63% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.71% 4.03% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 129 130
10th Percentile £408 £348 £448
25th Percentile £477 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £634
90th Percentile £735 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.80 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

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 6,023 4,315 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.50% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,880 3,202
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £701
UK median daily rate £520 £503 £523
% change year-on-year +3.48% -3.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 57 67
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.38 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.30 £26.45 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.45 £54.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% +45.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £71.22 £65.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.18 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -38.99%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -116 53 £535 +1.90% 35
South East -71 15 £650 +13.04% 14
North of England -80 11 £500 +28.21% 26
Midlands -43 10 £600 +11.63% 2
Yorkshire -60 9 £500 +28.21% 3
West Midlands -45 8 £600 +9.09% 2
South West -63 6 £553 -7.92% 21
East of England -20 5 £400 -22.52% 4
East Midlands -8 2 - -
North West -42 2 £400 +19.40% 21
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 11 (10.68%) Confluence
2 6 (5.83%) JBoss
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.97%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 56 (54.37%) AWS
2 46 (44.66%) Azure
3 29 (28.16%) GitHub
4 21 (20.39%) GCP
5 20 (19.42%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.42%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.50%) Datadog
7 16 (15.53%) Serverless
8 13 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (12.62%) OpenShift
9 12 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (10.68%) Amazon S3
10 11 (10.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (8.74%) Entra ID
13 8 (7.77%) IaaS
14 7 (6.80%) Azure AKS
14 7 (6.80%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) Firewall
2 14 (13.59%) DNS
3 12 (11.65%) VPN
4 8 (7.77%) SSL
5 7 (6.80%) DHCP
5 7 (6.80%) Network Security
6 6 (5.83%) Kerberos
6 6 (5.83%) SMTP
6 6 (5.83%) WAN
7 4 (3.88%) MQTT
8 3 (2.91%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.91%) SAN
8 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.97%) NAS
10 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.71%) Big Data
3 7 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.80%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.88%) MySQL
5 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.94%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (39.81%) Jenkins
2 38 (36.89%) GitLab
3 34 (33.01%) Git
4 14 (13.59%) JIRA
5 10 (9.71%) Artifactory
6 8 (7.77%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.94%) Subversion
10 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.97%) Gradle
10 1 (0.97%) Introscope
10 1 (0.97%) JUnit
10 1 (0.97%) Maven
10 1 (0.97%) Postman
10 1 (0.97%) Selenium
10 1 (0.97%) Snyk
10 1 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 35 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Finance
4 11 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.80%) Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Publishing
8 2 (1.94%) Law
8 2 (1.94%) Military
8 2 (1.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.53%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Senior
7 9 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (6.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Network Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (8.74%) Kafka
3 8 (7.77%) Keycloak
3 8 (7.77%) YAML
4 7 (6.80%) ARM Templates
5 6 (5.83%) REST
6 4 (3.88%) gRPC
6 4 (3.88%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (3.88%) RESTful
7 3 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (2.91%) JSON
8 2 (1.94%) ADO
8 2 (1.94%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.94%) Loki
8 2 (1.94%) Node.js
9 1 (0.97%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.97%) boto
9 1 (0.97%) LAPP Stack
9 1 (0.97%) Middleware
9 1 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.65%) Clustering
3 11 (10.68%) PKI
3 11 (10.68%) Private Cloud
4 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.94%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.97%) PMI
11 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (71.84%) Linux
2 32 (31.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (28.16%) Windows
4 11 (10.68%) Unix
5 10 (9.71%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.83%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.88%) CentOS
7 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.97%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (63.11%) CI/CD
2 60 (58.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (57.28%) DevOps
4 51 (49.51%) Configuration Management
5 39 (37.86%) Containerisation
6 26 (25.24%) Agile
7 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (21.36%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (21.36%) Test Automation
9 21 (20.39%) Observability
10 18 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (16.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (15.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (14.56%) Data Protection
13 15 (14.56%) Microservices
13 15 (14.56%) Task Automation
14 14 (13.59%) AI
14 14 (13.59%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (12.62%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (79.61%) Python
2 63 (61.17%) Bash
3 42 (40.78%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.71%) Java
5 8 (7.77%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.83%) Go
7 5 (4.85%) Bicep
7 5 (4.85%) C++
7 5 (4.85%) Perl
8 4 (3.88%) C
8 4 (3.88%) Rust
9 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.91%) Ruby
9 3 (2.91%) Scala
9 3 (2.91%) SQL
10 2 (1.94%) Groovy
10 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) Jython
Qualifications
1 51 (49.51%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.36%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.62%) Degree
5 10 (9.71%) AWS Certification
6 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) CCNP
8 4 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.91%) OCA
9 3 (2.91%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.91%) RHCA
9 3 (2.91%) RHCE
9 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.94%) CISSP
10 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.94%) SSCP
11 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.94%) NIST
3 2 (1.94%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.94%) SOC 1
3 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (43.69%) Docker
2 21 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (13.59%) Active Directory
4 9 (8.74%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.80%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.83%) BitLocker
6 6 (5.83%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.91%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.94%) HDFS
8 2 (1.94%) Squid
8 2 (1.94%) SRDF
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.97%) GPFS
9 1 (0.97%) Lustre
9 1 (0.97%) NFS
9 1 (0.97%) Samba
9 1 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 89 (86.41%) Ansible
2 61 (59.22%) Terraform
3 53 (51.46%) Kubernetes
4 44 (42.72%) Progress Chef
5 34 (33.01%) Prometheus
6 33 (32.04%) Grafana
7 9 (8.74%) vCenter Server
8 7 (6.80%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.83%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (5.83%) Salt
9 6 (5.83%) vMotion
10 5 (4.85%) Podman
11 4 (3.88%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (3.88%) Nagios
11 4 (3.88%) Packer
12 3 (2.91%) Argo
12 3 (2.91%) Istio
12 3 (2.91%) systemd
12 3 (2.91%) yum
13 2 (1.94%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 24 (23.30%) VMware
2 22 (21.36%) Red Hat
3 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.71%) Google
5 8 (7.77%) Cisco
5 8 (7.77%) Splunk
6 7 (6.80%) Veritas
7 6 (5.83%) Citrix
7 6 (5.83%) Commvault
7 6 (5.83%) SaltStack
7 6 (5.83%) Tenable
8 5 (4.85%) Databricks
8 5 (4.85%) HP
8 5 (4.85%) NetApp
9 4 (3.88%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.88%) PagerDuty
10 3 (2.91%) Dell
10 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.91%) Symantec
11 2 (1.94%) EMC