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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 308 386
Rank change year-on-year -184 +78 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 91 165 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.67% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.66% 4.32% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 126 125
10th Percentile £432 £361 £439
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -1.20% -6.88%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £688
90th Percentile £641 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £573 £582
% change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -3.00%
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% -39.10%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -37.09%

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 5,487 3,822 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.61% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,800 2,639 3,176
10th Percentile £315 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £691 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 38 106
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £43.68 £21.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.75 £25.74
Median % change year-on-year +107.21% +7.82% -53.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.20 £79.98 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.48 £25.77
% change year-on-year +113.41% +2.76% -55.19%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -95 30 £575 +4.55% 14
North of England -67 20 £500 +28.87% 8
Yorkshire -44 19 £500 +32.01% 1
Midlands -53 17 £550 +29.26% 3
West Midlands -50 13 £575 +9.52% 2
South East -62 11 £688 +19.57% 7
South West -69 6 £553 -7.92% 11
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +61.04% 1
East of England -32 3 - - 1
North West -49 1 £300 -25.37% 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 14 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.10%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) AWS
2 33 (36.26%) Azure
3 27 (29.67%) GitHub
4 17 (18.68%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (15.38%) GCP
7 13 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (14.29%) Serverless
8 12 (13.19%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
9 11 (12.09%) Azure AKS
9 11 (12.09%) IaaS
10 9 (9.89%) OpenShift
11 8 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (7.69%) CloudBees
12 7 (7.69%) PaaS
13 6 (6.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
1 12 (13.19%) VPN
2 10 (10.99%) DNS
3 7 (7.69%) DHCP
3 7 (7.69%) SMTP
4 4 (4.40%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.30%) Network Security
5 3 (3.30%) SAN
6 2 (2.20%) HTTP
6 2 (2.20%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.10%) Internet
7 1 (1.10%) MQTT
7 1 (1.10%) NAS
7 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (4.40%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (35.16%) Jenkins
2 26 (28.57%) GitLab
3 22 (24.18%) Git
4 16 (17.58%) JIRA
5 9 (9.89%) Artifactory
6 8 (8.79%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.49%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.10%) Gradle
10 1 (1.10%) Introscope
10 1 (1.10%) JUnit
10 1 (1.10%) Maven
10 1 (1.10%) Postman
10 1 (1.10%) Selenium
10 1 (1.10%) Snyk
10 1 (1.10%) Travis CI
10 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.09%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Finance
4 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Military
7 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Police
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (19.78%) Site Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Senior
5 11 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Architect
6 8 (8.79%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
6 8 (8.79%) Splunk Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (16.48%) YAML
3 8 (8.79%) REST
4 4 (4.40%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.40%) Kafka
4 4 (4.40%) Loki
5 3 (3.30%) ADO
5 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.30%) JSON
6 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.20%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.20%) Node.js
6 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.10%) gRPC
7 1 (1.10%) Middleware
7 1 (1.10%) SOAP
7 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.89%) PKI
3 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (8.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.69%) Clustering
5 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.20%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.10%) CMDB
9 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 61 (67.03%) Linux
2 16 (17.58%) Unix
2 16 (17.58%) Windows
3 14 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (12.09%) Ubuntu
5 10 (10.99%) CentOS
5 10 (10.99%) Windows Server
6 7 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.13%) DevOps
2 61 (67.03%) CI/CD
3 45 (49.45%) Containerisation
4 43 (47.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (42.86%) Configuration Management
6 28 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (28.57%) Observability
8 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (23.08%) Agile
10 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (17.58%) Incident Management
12 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (16.48%) Incident Response
12 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
13 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
14 12 (13.19%) Computer Science
14 12 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (13.19%) Microservices
14 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (72.53%) Python
2 48 (52.75%) Bash
3 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 13 (14.29%) Java
5 10 (10.99%) Ruby
6 9 (9.89%) Perl
7 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.49%) Bicep
8 5 (5.49%) SQL
9 4 (4.40%) Go
10 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.20%) Scala
10 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.10%) C++
11 1 (1.10%) Jython
11 1 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.48%) Degree
3 15 (16.48%) DV Cleared
4 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (12.09%) RHCE
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.30%) CCNP
8 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.30%) OCA
8 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (3.30%) RHCA
8 3 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (54.95%) Docker
2 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.69%) BitLocker
4 7 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.20%) SRDF
6 1 (1.10%) GPFS
6 1 (1.10%) Lustre
6 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (94.51%) Ansible
2 53 (58.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (48.35%) Terraform
4 31 (34.07%) Progress Chef
5 26 (28.57%) Grafana
6 24 (26.37%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.89%) Kibana
8 8 (8.79%) NetBackup
9 7 (7.69%) vCenter Server
9 7 (7.69%) vMotion
10 5 (5.49%) Salt
11 4 (4.40%) Istio
12 3 (3.30%) Argo
12 3 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (3.30%) Podman
13 1 (1.10%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.10%) Consul
13 1 (1.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
1 17 (18.68%) Red Hat
2 14 (15.38%) VMware
3 13 (14.29%) Splunk
4 7 (7.69%) Citrix
4 7 (7.69%) Commvault
4 7 (7.69%) NetApp
4 7 (7.69%) Veritas
5 4 (4.40%) Databricks
5 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.40%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.30%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.30%) Dell
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) HP
7 2 (2.20%) New Relic
7 2 (2.20%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.10%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.10%) SnapLogic