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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 348 349
Rank change year-on-year -112 +1 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 106 142 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.56% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.97% 3.65% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 86 157
10th Percentile £432 £408 £424
25th Percentile £500 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £678
90th Percentile £644 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £528 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +35.71% +7.69%

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 5,379 3,888 4,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.25% 15.20% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,724 2,547 3,344
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -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 121 41 141
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%

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 25 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 25 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 -34 30 £525 +27.12% 4
West Midlands -30 28 £550 +10.00% 4
London -78 26 £575 +3.60% 8
North of England -60 24 £500 - 6
Yorkshire -46 23 £500 +4.71% 2
South East -39 13 £650 +33.33% 4
South West -52 6 £553 -10.16% 14
East of England -19 4 £619 +7.61% 1
East Midlands -28 2 £525 +61.04%
North West -47 1 £525 +5.00% 3
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 14 (13.21%) Confluence
2 9 (8.49%) Apache
3 8 (7.55%) JBoss
3 8 (7.55%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.66%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.94%) IIS
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Weka
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.00%) AWS
2 25 (23.58%) Azure
3 23 (21.70%) Amazon EKS
4 22 (20.75%) GitHub
5 21 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (16.04%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (16.04%) Amazon S3
6 17 (16.04%) GCP
7 16 (15.09%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (12.26%) Serverless
9 12 (11.32%) IaaS
10 11 (10.38%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (8.49%) OpenShift
13 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (7.55%) Azure AKS
13 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (6.60%) Datadog
15 5 (4.72%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.49%) DNS
1 9 (8.49%) Firewall
1 9 (8.49%) VPN
2 8 (7.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.66%) DHCP
4 4 (3.77%) Network Security
4 4 (3.77%) SMTP
5 2 (1.89%) HTTP
5 2 (1.89%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.89%) SAN
6 1 (0.94%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.94%) Internet
6 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.94%) MQTT
6 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.87%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (14.15%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.49%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.83%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.83%) MySQL
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.89%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.94%) HBase
9 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (29.25%) Git
2 29 (27.36%) Jenkins
3 19 (17.92%) GitLab
4 17 (16.04%) JIRA
5 12 (11.32%) JUnit
5 12 (11.32%) Selenium
6 11 (10.38%) Bitbucket
7 8 (7.55%) Artifactory
7 8 (7.55%) Eclipse
7 8 (7.55%) IntelliJ
8 6 (5.66%) Gradle
8 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 6 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.72%) CircleCI
9 5 (4.72%) Maven
10 4 (3.77%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.77%) Postman
10 4 (3.77%) Snyk
10 4 (3.77%) webpack
11 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 42 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.49%) Finance
6 8 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.60%) Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) Site Engineer
2 24 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (22.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (13.21%) Splunk Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Lead
7 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior
8 5 (4.72%) Architect
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) NetApp Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Storage Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Consultant
10 3 (2.83%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.47%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (17.92%) REST
3 13 (12.26%) JSON
3 13 (12.26%) YAML
4 9 (8.49%) SOAP
4 9 (8.49%) XML
5 8 (7.55%) EJB
5 8 (7.55%) Hibernate
5 8 (7.55%) HTML
5 8 (7.55%) HTML5
5 8 (7.55%) J2EE
5 8 (7.55%) J2SE
5 8 (7.55%) Play Framework
5 8 (7.55%) Spring
6 4 (3.77%) Kafka
7 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.89%) Loki
8 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.77%) Clustering
5 4 (3.77%) PKI
5 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.89%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.94%) CMDB
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (63.21%) Linux
2 30 (28.30%) Unix
3 13 (12.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (12.26%) Windows
4 11 (10.38%) CentOS
5 10 (9.43%) Ubuntu
6 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (68.87%) DevOps
2 62 (58.49%) CI/CD
3 51 (48.11%) Containerisation
4 47 (44.34%) Configuration Management
5 46 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (31.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (30.19%) Agile
9 28 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (24.53%) Observability
11 24 (22.64%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.92%) Computer Science
12 19 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (17.92%) Migration
13 18 (16.98%) Incident Response
13 18 (16.98%) Test Automation
14 17 (16.04%) Change Management
14 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (14.15%) Continuous Delivery
15 15 (14.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.92%) Python
2 52 (49.06%) Bash
3 17 (16.04%) Java
4 14 (13.21%) SQL
5 11 (10.38%) Perl
6 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.49%) Ruby
7 9 (8.49%) Shell Script
8 8 (7.55%) Scala
9 2 (1.89%) C++
9 2 (1.89%) Go
9 2 (1.89%) Groovy
10 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.75%) Degree
3 19 (17.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
5 14 (13.21%) RHCE
6 12 (11.32%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.83%) CCNP
8 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.83%) OCA
8 3 (2.83%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.83%) RHCA
8 3 (2.83%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) QA
2 2 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (60.38%) Docker
2 10 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.77%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.77%) GPFS
4 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.77%) Lustre
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.83%) KVM
6 2 (1.89%) SRDF
7 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 92 (86.79%) Ansible
2 51 (48.11%) Kubernetes
3 41 (38.68%) Terraform
4 33 (31.13%) Progress Chef
5 23 (21.70%) Grafana
6 17 (16.04%) Prometheus
7 15 (14.15%) Kibana
8 9 (8.49%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.66%) Podman
9 6 (5.66%) Salt
10 4 (3.77%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.77%) vMotion
11 3 (2.83%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.89%) Argo
12 2 (1.89%) Istio
12 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.94%) Ambari
13 1 (0.94%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.94%) logstash
13 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Red Hat
1 21 (19.81%) Splunk
2 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.32%) VMware
4 9 (8.49%) Commvault
5 8 (7.55%) PagerDuty
5 8 (7.55%) webMethods
6 4 (3.77%) Broadcom
6 4 (3.77%) Citrix
6 4 (3.77%) NetApp
6 4 (3.77%) Veritas
7 3 (2.83%) Dell
8 2 (1.89%) Cisco
8 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.89%) HP
8 2 (1.89%) New Relic
8 2 (1.89%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.94%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow