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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 321 366
Rank change year-on-year -197 +45 -19
Contract jobs citing Puppet 89 186 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.49% 4.39% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 134 144
10th Percentile £408 £356 £450
25th Percentile £476 £440 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -1.87% -7.74%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £650
90th Percentile £735 £688 £759
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile £63.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

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 5,969 4,241 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.30% 15.46% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,079 2,816 3,350
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.57% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £39.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% +24.80% -45.65%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -111 43 £500 -4.76% 16
South East -69 14 £650 +13.04% 7
North of England -99 10 £500 +25.00% 11
Midlands -40 9 £600 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire -71 9 £500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -58 7 £600 +11.63% 1
South West -63 6 £553 -7.92% 7
East of England -19 4 £400 -22.52% 2
East Midlands -13 2 - -
North West -53 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 11 (12.36%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
4 1 (1.12%) nginx
4 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.12%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 52 (58.43%) AWS
2 41 (46.07%) Azure
3 26 (29.21%) GitHub
4 18 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (20.22%) GCP
4 18 (20.22%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (17.98%) Datadog
5 16 (17.98%) Serverless
6 12 (13.48%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.48%) OpenShift
7 11 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 11 (12.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.24%) Entra ID
9 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.87%) CloudBees
11 7 (7.87%) IaaS
11 7 (7.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.10%) Firewall
2 14 (15.73%) DNS
3 12 (13.48%) VPN
4 7 (7.87%) DHCP
4 7 (7.87%) Network Security
4 7 (7.87%) SMTP
4 7 (7.87%) SSL
5 5 (5.62%) WAN
6 4 (4.49%) MQTT
7 3 (3.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (3.37%) SAN
7 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.25%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.12%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.62%) Amazon QuickSight
3 5 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.62%) Big Data
4 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.37%) MySQL
4 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (39.33%) Jenkins
2 33 (37.08%) GitLab
3 27 (30.34%) Git
4 14 (15.73%) JIRA
5 9 (10.11%) Artifactory
6 7 (7.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.25%) Subversion
10 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.12%) Introscope
General
1 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Finance
2 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Banking
4 6 (6.74%) Legal
5 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Publishing
6 2 (2.25%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Military
6 2 (2.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Senior
6 9 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Site Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Architect
10 4 (4.49%) NetApp Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.87%) ARM Templates
2 7 (7.87%) Kafka
2 7 (7.87%) Keycloak
3 5 (5.62%) YAML
4 4 (4.49%) gRPC
4 4 (4.49%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (4.49%) REST
4 4 (4.49%) RESTful
5 2 (2.25%) ADO
5 2 (2.25%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.25%) Loki
5 2 (2.25%) Node.js
6 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.12%) boto
6 1 (1.12%) JSON
6 1 (1.12%) Middleware
6 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.36%) PKI
3 8 (8.99%) Clustering
3 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.87%) Private Cloud
5 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.12%) Grid Computing
10 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.12%) NHS
10 1 (1.12%) PMI
10 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (68.54%) Linux
2 27 (30.34%) Windows
3 21 (23.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (11.24%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.74%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.74%) Unix
6 5 (5.62%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (3.37%) CentOS
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 55 (61.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (59.55%) DevOps
4 38 (42.70%) Configuration Management
5 37 (41.57%) Containerisation
6 23 (25.84%) Agile
7 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (19.10%) Observability
10 15 (16.85%) Microservices
10 15 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (15.73%) Data Protection
11 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (15.73%) Test Automation
12 13 (14.61%) AI
12 13 (14.61%) Incident Management
13 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (11.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (80.90%) Python
2 59 (66.29%) Bash
3 39 (43.82%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.11%) Java
5 8 (8.99%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.74%) Go
7 5 (5.62%) Bicep
8 4 (4.49%) Rust
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby
10 2 (2.25%) Groovy
10 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.25%) Perl
10 2 (2.25%) Scala
10 2 (2.25%) SQL
10 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.12%) C
11 1 (1.12%) C++
11 1 (1.12%) Jython
Qualifications
1 45 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.60%) DV Cleared
4 11 (12.36%) Degree
5 10 (11.24%) AWS Certification
6 8 (8.99%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.37%) CCNP
8 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.37%) OCA
8 3 (3.37%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (3.37%) RHCA
8 3 (3.37%) RHCE
8 3 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.25%) CISSP
9 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.25%) SSCP
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.25%) SOC 1
3 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (48.31%) Docker
2 16 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (16.85%) Active Directory
4 10 (11.24%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.99%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.87%) BitLocker
6 7 (7.87%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (3.37%) Terminal Services
8 2 (2.25%) HDFS
8 2 (2.25%) Squid
8 2 (2.25%) SRDF
8 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.12%) GPFS
9 1 (1.12%) Lustre
9 1 (1.12%) NFS
9 1 (1.12%) Samba
9 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (95.51%) Ansible
2 56 (62.92%) Terraform
3 52 (58.43%) Kubernetes
4 35 (39.33%) Progress Chef
5 33 (37.08%) Prometheus
6 32 (35.96%) Grafana
7 10 (11.24%) vCenter Server
8 7 (7.87%) NetBackup
8 7 (7.87%) vMotion
9 6 (6.74%) Salt
10 4 (4.49%) Nagios
10 4 (4.49%) Packer
10 4 (4.49%) Podman
11 3 (3.37%) Istio
11 3 (3.37%) systemd
11 3 (3.37%) yum
12 2 (2.25%) Argo
12 2 (2.25%) Nexpose
13 1 (1.12%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.12%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.22%) VMware
3 14 (15.73%) Red Hat
4 9 (10.11%) Google
5 7 (7.87%) Citrix
5 7 (7.87%) Splunk
5 7 (7.87%) Veritas
6 6 (6.74%) Commvault
6 6 (6.74%) NetApp
6 6 (6.74%) Tenable
7 5 (5.62%) HP
8 4 (4.49%) Databricks
8 4 (4.49%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.49%) PagerDuty
9 3 (3.37%) Broadcom
9 3 (3.37%) Cisco
9 3 (3.37%) Dell
9 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.37%) Symantec
10 2 (2.25%) TOWER Software