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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 361 353
Rank change year-on-year -170 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing Puppet 103 161 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.58% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.06% 4.18% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 120 125
10th Percentile £400 £357 £435
25th Percentile £475 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £625
90th Percentile £735 £703 £689
UK median daily rate £553 £525 £551
% change year-on-year +5.24% -4.76% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.60 - -
25th Percentile £29.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £42.50 - £16.50
90th Percentile £46.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% 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 4,997 3,848 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.94% 13.87% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,550 2,778
10th Percentile £310 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -3.11% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £708
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +3.95% -2.86% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 60 65
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.43 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% +36.00% -24.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.72 £82.96 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -34.78%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -96 59 £535 +1.90% 8
South East -62 15 £650 +13.04% 5
Midlands -42 10 £600 +9.09% 1
West Midlands -44 8 £600 +9.09% 1
South West -60 6 £553 -7.92% 14
North of England -90 6 £525 +31.25% 23
East of England -26 5 £400 -17.10% 3
Yorkshire -62 4 £551 +37.75% 4
North West -45 2 £400 +19.40% 16
East Midlands - 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 7 (6.80%) Confluence
1 7 (6.80%) JBoss
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.91%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
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 48 (46.60%) Azure
3 26 (25.24%) GitHub
4 22 (21.36%) GCP
5 20 (19.42%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.42%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.50%) Datadog
7 15 (14.56%) Serverless
8 13 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (10.68%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (10.68%) OpenShift
10 10 (9.71%) Amazon S3
10 10 (9.71%) IaaS
10 10 (9.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
13 7 (6.80%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.53%) Firewall
2 15 (14.56%) DNS
3 12 (11.65%) VPN
4 8 (7.77%) DHCP
4 8 (7.77%) SSL
5 7 (6.80%) Kerberos
5 7 (6.80%) Network Security
6 6 (5.83%) SMTP
6 6 (5.83%) WAN
7 4 (3.88%) MQTT
8 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.94%) BGP
9 2 (1.94%) MPLS
9 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.97%) IPv4
10 1 (0.97%) IPv6
10 1 (0.97%) NAS
10 1 (0.97%) OSPF
10 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.68%) Big Data
3 8 (7.77%) Hadoop
4 6 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.88%) MySQL
7 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.94%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 38 (36.89%) GitLab
2 37 (35.92%) Jenkins
3 36 (34.95%) Git
4 10 (9.71%) JIRA
5 9 (8.74%) 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 36 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Finance
4 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.83%) Legal
6 3 (2.91%) Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Publishing
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Law
7 2 (1.94%) Military
7 2 (1.94%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (17.48%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Senior
6 9 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Systems 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%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (59.22%) Terraform
2 11 (10.68%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (9.71%) Kafka
4 9 (8.74%) YAML
5 8 (7.77%) Keycloak
6 7 (6.80%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.85%) REST
8 4 (3.88%) gRPC
8 4 (3.88%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (3.88%) RESTful
9 3 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.91%) JSON
10 2 (1.94%) ADO
10 2 (1.94%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.94%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (1.94%) Loki
10 2 (1.94%) Node.js
11 1 (0.97%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.97%) boto
11 1 (0.97%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.62%) Clustering
2 13 (12.62%) Private Cloud
3 11 (10.68%) PKI
4 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.97%) NHS
11 1 (0.97%) PMI
11 1 (0.97%) Replication
11 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (76.70%) Linux
2 35 (33.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (27.18%) Windows
4 12 (11.65%) Unix
5 11 (10.68%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.80%) Ubuntu
7 5 (4.85%) CentOS
8 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.97%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 58 (56.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (54.37%) DevOps
4 52 (50.49%) Configuration Management
5 38 (36.89%) Containerisation
6 27 (26.21%) Agile
7 25 (24.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (21.36%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (20.39%) Observability
10 20 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 19 (18.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (15.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (15.53%) Task Automation
15 15 (14.56%) AI
15 15 (14.56%) Microservices
16 14 (13.59%) Root Cause Analysis
16 14 (13.59%) Scrum
17 13 (12.62%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 81 (78.64%) Python
2 58 (56.31%) Bash
3 44 (42.72%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.68%) Java
5 8 (7.77%) C++
6 7 (6.80%) Go
6 7 (6.80%) Perl
7 6 (5.83%) C
7 6 (5.83%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.85%) Bicep
8 5 (4.85%) SQL
9 4 (3.88%) Rust
9 4 (3.88%) Scala
10 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.91%) Ruby
11 2 (1.94%) Groovy
11 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.97%) C#
12 1 (0.97%) Jython
Qualifications
1 51 (49.51%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.36%) DV Cleared
4 15 (14.56%) 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
8 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
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 20 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (12.62%) 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%) 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
9 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (82.52%) Ansible
2 52 (50.49%) Kubernetes
3 45 (43.69%) Progress Chef
4 33 (32.04%) Prometheus
5 32 (31.07%) Grafana
6 9 (8.74%) vCenter Server
7 7 (6.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (5.83%) vMotion
9 5 (4.85%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (4.85%) Podman
9 5 (4.85%) Salt
10 4 (3.88%) Nagios
10 4 (3.88%) NetBackup
10 4 (3.88%) Packer
11 3 (2.91%) Argo
11 3 (2.91%) Istio
11 3 (2.91%) systemd
11 3 (2.91%) yum
12 2 (1.94%) Control-M
12 2 (1.94%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 24 (23.30%) VMware
2 22 (21.36%) Red Hat
3 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
4 11 (10.68%) Google
5 9 (8.74%) SaltStack
6 8 (7.77%) Cisco
6 8 (7.77%) Splunk
7 6 (5.83%) Citrix
7 6 (5.83%) Databricks
7 6 (5.83%) Tenable
8 5 (4.85%) NetApp
9 4 (3.88%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.88%) PagerDuty
9 4 (3.88%) Veritas
10 3 (2.91%) HP
10 3 (2.91%) Oracle
10 3 (2.91%) Symantec
11 2 (1.94%) Commvault
11 2 (1.94%) EMC
11 2 (1.94%) Informatica