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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 348 315
Rank change year-on-year -68 -33 -50
Contract jobs citing Puppet 119 166 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.53% 0.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.47% 3.74% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 95 214
10th Percentile £383 £428 £413
25th Percentile £456 £480 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.89% -6.67%
75th Percentile £623 £623 £659
90th Percentile £742 £656 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -4.98% +0.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £75.36
25th Percentile - £15.50 -
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -79.49% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - £81.34
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 4,814 4,435 5,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.18% 14.19% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,205 2,882 4,193
10th Percentile £304 £315 £308
25th Percentile £413 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 51 156
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £26.69
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £63.50 £73.91
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year -28.11% -29.43% +105.00%

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 November 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 7 November 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 -41 40 £523 -5.00% 76
North of England -32 30 £500 -15.43% 11
Yorkshire -18 29 £488 -16.31% 2
Midlands -16 23 £525 -9.79% 13
West Midlands -25 23 £525 -9.79% 5
South West -7 11 £613 +6.34% 11
East of England - 8 £575 - 1
South East -15 5 £461 -17.86% 68
North West -32 1 £525 -12.50% 7
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 18 (15.13%) Apache
2 12 (10.08%) Confluence
3 9 (7.56%) JBoss
4 8 (6.72%) WebLogic
5 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (5.04%) Apache Spark
6 5 (4.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (2.52%) SAS
8 2 (1.68%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.84%) CICS
9 1 (0.84%) IIS
9 1 (0.84%) Luigi
9 1 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Weka
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 66 (55.46%) AWS
2 43 (36.13%) GitHub
3 34 (28.57%) Azure
4 28 (23.53%) GCP
5 24 (20.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (10.92%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (10.92%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (7.56%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (6.72%) Serverless
10 8 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.88%) Datadog
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.04%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.20%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.85%) TCP/IP
2 24 (20.17%) Firewall
3 11 (9.24%) DNS
4 5 (4.20%) VPN
5 3 (2.52%) DHCP
5 3 (2.52%) Network Security
6 2 (1.68%) HTTP
6 2 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.68%) SSL
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.84%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.84%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.84%) Internet
7 1 (0.84%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.84%) LAN
7 1 (0.84%) Multicast
7 1 (0.84%) NAS
7 1 (0.84%) SAN
7 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.24%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.56%) Hadoop
2 9 (7.56%) MySQL
2 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.20%) Apache Hive
5 5 (4.20%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.20%) HBase
6 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.52%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.84%) AllegroGraph
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.84%) ArangoDB
8 1 (0.84%) Azkaban
8 1 (0.84%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.84%) Power BI
8 1 (0.84%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 51 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 48 (40.34%) Git
3 32 (26.89%) GitLab
4 20 (16.81%) Postman
5 16 (13.45%) JIRA
6 14 (11.76%) Artifactory
7 13 (10.92%) Selenium
8 12 (10.08%) Bitbucket
8 12 (10.08%) JUnit
9 9 (7.56%) Gradle
9 9 (7.56%) Maven
10 8 (6.72%) Eclipse
10 8 (6.72%) IntelliJ
11 7 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
12 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
13 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
13 4 (3.36%) Snyk
13 4 (3.36%) Subversion
13 4 (3.36%) webpack
General
1 31 (26.05%) Finance
2 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.72%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Electronics
8 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
8 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (13.45%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (10.92%) Senior
4 11 (9.24%) Technical Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) Windows Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Developer
8 7 (5.88%) Administrator
9 6 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Splunk Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.49%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (14.29%) REST
3 13 (10.92%) JSON
4 8 (6.72%) EJB
4 8 (6.72%) Hibernate
4 8 (6.72%) HTML
4 8 (6.72%) HTML5
4 8 (6.72%) J2EE
4 8 (6.72%) J2SE
4 8 (6.72%) Play Framework
4 8 (6.72%) SOAP
4 8 (6.72%) Spring
4 8 (6.72%) XML
5 7 (5.88%) Node.js
5 7 (5.88%) YAML
6 5 (4.20%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (3.36%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.52%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.52%) LAMP
8 3 (2.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.36%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Blog
5 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.52%) IVR
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.68%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.68%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 59 (49.58%) Linux
2 31 (26.05%) Unix
3 23 (19.33%) Windows
4 14 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (7.56%) CentOS
6 6 (5.04%) Ubuntu
7 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.36%) Solaris
9 3 (2.52%) AIX
9 3 (2.52%) Debian
9 3 (2.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.84%) MVS
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.84%) SUSE
10 1 (0.84%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.75%) DevOps
2 66 (55.46%) Configuration Management
3 61 (51.26%) CI/CD
4 50 (42.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (32.77%) Agile
5 39 (32.77%) Containerisation
6 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (21.85%) Migration
8 21 (17.65%) Scrum
9 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (12.61%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (12.61%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.61%) Microservices
11 14 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.92%) Data Management
12 13 (10.92%) Task Automation
13 11 (9.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (68.07%) Python
2 35 (29.41%) Bash
3 18 (15.13%) Shell Script
4 16 (13.45%) Java
4 16 (13.45%) SQL
5 14 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 11 (9.24%) Go
6 11 (9.24%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.40%) C++
7 10 (8.40%) Groovy
7 10 (8.40%) Scala
8 5 (4.20%) C#
8 5 (4.20%) Perl
8 5 (4.20%) PHP
9 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 11 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.36%) RHCE
6 4 (3.36%) RHCSA
7 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.52%) CCNA
7 3 (2.52%) CCNP
7 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.68%) GDPR
2 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.68%) NIST
2 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.68%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (46.22%) Docker
2 27 (22.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (4.20%) HDFS
4 5 (4.20%) KVM
5 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.52%) GPFS
5 3 (2.52%) Lustre
5 3 (2.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.68%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.84%) iptables
7 1 (0.84%) NFS
7 1 (0.84%) SRDF
7 1 (0.84%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (78.15%) Ansible
2 60 (50.42%) Terraform
3 44 (36.97%) Kubernetes
4 30 (25.21%) Progress Chef
5 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
6 14 (11.76%) Grafana
7 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (6.72%) Salt
9 7 (5.88%) NetBackup
9 7 (5.88%) SCCM
10 6 (5.04%) Kibana
11 5 (4.20%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (4.20%) Podman
12 4 (3.36%) Istio
13 3 (2.52%) Ambari
13 3 (2.52%) Nagios
13 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (2.52%) vCenter Server
13 3 (2.52%) ZABBIX
14 2 (1.68%) Icinga
Vendors
1 28 (23.53%) VMware
2 20 (16.81%) MuleSoft
3 19 (15.97%) Splunk
4 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
5 14 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.72%) webMethods
7 7 (5.88%) Commvault
7 7 (5.88%) Google
7 7 (5.88%) Oracle
8 4 (3.36%) SnapLogic
9 3 (2.52%) Cisco
9 3 (2.52%) Rackspace
10 2 (1.68%) IBM
10 2 (1.68%) New Relic
10 2 (1.68%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.68%) SAP
10 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.68%) Zend
11 1 (0.84%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.84%) Vertica