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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 362 324
Rank change year-on-year -78 -38 -41
Contract jobs citing Puppet 108 136 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.17% 3.37% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 71 183
10th Percentile £409 £400 £413
25th Percentile £477 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.98%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £675
90th Percentile £668 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £23.45 £71.40
25th Percentile - £35.38 -
Median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.85% -
75th Percentile - £75.38 -
90th Percentile - £87.15 £78.59
UK median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.85% -

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 4,984 4,037 4,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 14.50% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,432 2,621 3,570
10th Percentile £311 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.01%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 152
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £16.59
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +27.89%
75th Percentile £66.19 £61.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +96.14% -46.21% +31.94%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -9 32 £538 +7.50% 5
London -53 32 £525 -7.08% 12
West Midlands -11 30 £550 +10.00% 4
North of England -38 22 £510 -13.74% 4
Yorkshire -37 21 £500 -14.16% 2
South East -17 13 £590 +20.72% 7
South West -24 5 £600 -2.44% 1
East of England -15 4 £619 +3.13% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
North West -41 1 £525 -12.50% 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 (12.04%) Apache
1 13 (12.04%) Confluence
2 8 (7.41%) JBoss
2 8 (7.41%) WebLogic
3 7 (6.48%) OpenStack
4 6 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.70%) SAS
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.93%) CICS
7 1 (0.93%) IIS
7 1 (0.93%) Luigi
7 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Weka
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 58 (53.70%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) Azure
3 28 (25.93%) GitHub
4 24 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 24 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (18.52%) Amazon S3
7 19 (17.59%) GCP
8 14 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (10.19%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (10.19%) IaaS
11 10 (9.26%) Azure AKS
11 10 (9.26%) Serverless
12 9 (8.33%) OpenShift
13 8 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (7.41%) Datadog
14 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) TCP/IP
2 9 (8.33%) DNS
3 8 (7.41%) Firewall
4 4 (3.70%) DHCP
4 4 (3.70%) HTTP
4 4 (3.70%) VPN
5 3 (2.78%) Network Security
6 2 (1.85%) Internet
6 2 (1.85%) SMTP
6 2 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) FCoE
7 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.93%) LAN
7 1 (0.93%) Multicast
7 1 (0.93%) NAS
7 1 (0.93%) SAN
7 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (15.74%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.19%) MongoDB
6 9 (8.33%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.63%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.63%) HBase
7 5 (4.63%) MySQL
8 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.85%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.93%) ArangoDB
11 1 (0.93%) Azkaban
11 1 (0.93%) CrateDB
11 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (28.70%) Git
2 29 (26.85%) Jenkins
3 21 (19.44%) GitLab
4 15 (13.89%) JIRA
5 13 (12.04%) Bitbucket
5 13 (12.04%) JUnit
5 13 (12.04%) Selenium
6 8 (7.41%) Eclipse
6 8 (7.41%) Gradle
6 8 (7.41%) IntelliJ
6 8 (7.41%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (6.48%) Artifactory
7 7 (6.48%) Cypress.io
7 7 (6.48%) Maven
7 7 (6.48%) Postman
8 6 (5.56%) CircleCI
9 5 (4.63%) Snyk
9 5 (4.63%) webpack
10 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.96%) Finance
4 8 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (21.30%) Site Engineer
3 21 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Senior
6 8 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (6.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Architect
10 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) Administrator
11 2 (1.85%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (15.74%) REST
3 14 (12.96%) JSON
3 14 (12.96%) YAML
4 9 (8.33%) XML
5 8 (7.41%) EJB
5 8 (7.41%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.41%) HTML
5 8 (7.41%) HTML5
5 8 (7.41%) J2EE
5 8 (7.41%) J2SE
5 8 (7.41%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.41%) SOAP
5 8 (7.41%) Spring
6 5 (4.63%) Kafka
6 5 (4.63%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.78%) Node.js
7 3 (2.78%) RESTful
8 2 (1.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.04%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.48%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.78%) Clustering
6 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.85%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) CMDB
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.93%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.93%) IVR
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (62.96%) Linux
2 27 (25.00%) Unix
3 13 (12.04%) Windows
4 10 (9.26%) CentOS
4 10 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.41%) Ubuntu
6 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.93%) MVS
8 1 (0.93%) Solaris
8 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (66.67%) DevOps
2 64 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 53 (49.07%) Configuration Management
4 52 (48.15%) Containerisation
5 51 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (34.26%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (32.41%) Agile
8 31 (28.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (20.37%) Observability
11 21 (19.44%) Software Engineering
12 20 (18.52%) Computer Science
13 19 (17.59%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (16.67%) Incident Response
15 17 (15.74%) Microservices
15 17 (15.74%) Migration
16 16 (14.81%) Scrum
17 15 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
17 15 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
18 14 (12.96%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (68.52%) Python
2 46 (42.59%) Bash
3 19 (17.59%) SQL
4 16 (14.81%) Java
5 13 (12.04%) Shell Script
6 12 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.33%) Perl
7 9 (8.33%) Scala
8 7 (6.48%) Ruby
9 3 (2.78%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) C++
10 2 (1.85%) Groovy
10 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) Degree
3 17 (15.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
5 12 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.26%) RHCE
7 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.70%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (59.26%) Docker
2 10 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.63%) HDFS
3 5 (4.63%) KVM
4 4 (3.70%) GPFS
4 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.70%) Lustre
4 4 (3.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.85%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.93%) NFS
6 1 (0.93%) SRDF
6 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (80.56%) Ansible
2 52 (48.15%) Terraform
3 51 (47.22%) Kubernetes
4 28 (25.93%) Grafana
5 26 (24.07%) Progress Chef
6 19 (17.59%) Prometheus
7 13 (12.04%) Kibana
8 8 (7.41%) NetBackup
9 7 (6.48%) Podman
10 5 (4.63%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (3.70%) Istio
11 4 (3.70%) Salt
12 3 (2.78%) Ambari
12 3 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.78%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.85%) Argo
13 2 (1.85%) SCCM
13 2 (1.85%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (22.22%) Splunk
2 17 (15.74%) Red Hat
3 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.26%) VMware
5 8 (7.41%) Commvault
5 8 (7.41%) PagerDuty
5 8 (7.41%) webMethods
6 5 (4.63%) Google
6 5 (4.63%) SnapLogic
7 4 (3.70%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.70%) Oracle
8 3 (2.78%) NetApp
9 2 (1.85%) Citrix
9 2 (1.85%) Dell
9 2 (1.85%) Tenable
10 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.93%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.93%) F5
10 1 (0.93%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.93%) Zoomdata