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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 294 375
Rank change year-on-year -202 +81 -15
Contract jobs citing Puppet 90 182 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.61% 4.73% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 136 135
10th Percentile £428 £361 £450
25th Percentile £500 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -6.91%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £653
90th Percentile £648 £713 £763
UK median daily rate £537 £568 £574
% change year-on-year -5.37% -1.09% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

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 5,603 3,844 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.25% 15.80% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 2,612 3,351
10th Percentile £319 £310 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -1.51% - -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +65.41% +8.13% -46.52%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -121 35 £615 +11.82% 14
North of England -88 18 £513 +28.13% 15
Yorkshire -62 17 £525 +31.25% 3
Midlands -40 14 £588 +38.07% 3
West Midlands -48 12 £588 +11.90% 2
South East -61 9 £690 +20.00% 10
South West -62 6 £553 -7.92% 6
East of England -23 4 £400 -27.27% 3
East Midlands -26 2 - - 1
North West -51 1 £300 -25.37% 9
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 (12.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.11%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (50.00%) AWS
2 33 (36.67%) Azure
3 26 (28.89%) GitHub
4 18 (20.00%) GCP
4 18 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (18.89%) Serverless
6 13 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (12.22%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (11.11%) OpenShift
9 9 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 9 (10.00%) IaaS
9 9 (10.00%) PaaS
9 9 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (8.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.67%) Firewall
2 14 (15.56%) VPN
3 13 (14.44%) DNS
4 9 (10.00%) DHCP
4 9 (10.00%) SMTP
5 5 (5.56%) Network Security
6 4 (4.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (4.44%) SSL
7 3 (3.33%) MQTT
7 3 (3.33%) SAN
7 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.22%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.22%) WAN
9 1 (1.11%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.33%) MySQL
4 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.22%) Big Data
6 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.22%) GitLab
3 22 (24.44%) Git
4 14 (15.56%) JIRA
5 10 (11.11%) Artifactory
6 7 (7.78%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.67%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.11%) Gradle
9 1 (1.11%) Introscope
9 1 (1.11%) JUnit
9 1 (1.11%) Maven
9 1 (1.11%) Postman
9 1 (1.11%) Selenium
9 1 (1.11%) Snyk
9 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Police
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Site Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Lead
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Architect
8 7 (7.78%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Splunk Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (15.56%) YAML
3 7 (7.78%) REST
4 6 (6.67%) Kafka
4 6 (6.67%) Keycloak
5 4 (4.44%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.44%) Loki
6 3 (3.33%) gRPC
6 3 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (3.33%) RESTful
7 2 (2.22%) ADO
7 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.22%) JSON
7 2 (2.22%) Node.js
8 1 (1.11%) Middleware
8 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) PKI
2 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.00%) Clustering
4 7 (7.78%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.56%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.22%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (67.78%) Linux
2 20 (22.22%) Windows
3 19 (21.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (15.56%) Ubuntu
5 13 (14.44%) Unix
6 12 (13.33%) Windows Server
7 11 (12.22%) CentOS
8 8 (8.89%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.11%) AIX
9 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.78%) DevOps
2 60 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 42 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (41.11%) Containerisation
5 33 (36.67%) Configuration Management
6 25 (27.78%) Observability
7 22 (24.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.89%) Agile
10 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (16.67%) Incident Management
12 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
13 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (14.44%) Microservices
14 11 (12.22%) Data Protection
14 11 (12.22%) Incident Response
14 11 (12.22%) Migration
14 11 (12.22%) Root Cause Analysis
15 9 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (71.11%) Python
2 45 (50.00%) Bash
3 25 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.22%) Ruby
5 10 (11.11%) Java
5 10 (11.11%) Perl
6 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.56%) Bicep
7 5 (5.56%) SQL
8 4 (4.44%) Go
9 3 (3.33%) Rust
10 2 (2.22%) Groovy
10 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.22%) Scala
10 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.11%) C
11 1 (1.11%) C++
11 1 (1.11%) Jython
Qualifications
1 41 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.89%) DV Cleared
4 15 (16.67%) Degree
5 11 (12.22%) RHCE
6 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.33%) CCNP
8 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.33%) OCA
8 3 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (3.33%) RHCA
8 3 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.22%) CISSP
9 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.22%) SSCP
10 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 2 (2.22%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (52.22%) Docker
2 17 (18.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 9 (10.00%) BitLocker
5 9 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.22%) Squid
6 2 (2.22%) SRDF
6 2 (2.22%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.11%) GPFS
7 1 (1.11%) Lustre
7 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (94.44%) Ansible
2 52 (57.78%) Kubernetes
3 43 (47.78%) Terraform
4 28 (31.11%) Progress Chef
5 27 (30.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (27.78%) Grafana
7 9 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 9 (10.00%) vMotion
8 7 (7.78%) NetBackup
9 6 (6.67%) Kibana
9 6 (6.67%) Salt
10 4 (4.44%) Argo
10 4 (4.44%) Podman
11 3 (3.33%) Istio
12 2 (2.22%) Nagios
12 2 (2.22%) Nexpose
12 2 (2.22%) Packer
13 1 (1.11%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.11%) Consul
13 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
3 16 (17.78%) VMware
4 10 (11.11%) Splunk
5 9 (10.00%) Citrix
6 7 (7.78%) NetApp
6 7 (7.78%) Veritas
7 6 (6.67%) Commvault
7 6 (6.67%) Google
8 4 (4.44%) Databricks
8 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.44%) HP
9 3 (3.33%) Broadcom
9 3 (3.33%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.33%) Tenable
10 2 (2.22%) Dell
10 2 (2.22%) New Relic
10 2 (2.22%) Symantec
10 2 (2.22%) TOWER Software
10 2 (2.22%) Trend Micro