Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 358 353
Rank change year-on-year +63 -5 -75
Contract jobs citing Puppet 190 184 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.49% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.83% 3.97% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 138 228
10th Percentile £360 £450 £473
25th Percentile £456 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £573 £608
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -5.76% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £723 £763 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -3.93% -4.58% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £69.40
25th Percentile - £46.25 -
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.10% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% 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 3,931 4,636 7,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.80% 12.29% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,643 3,375 5,159
10th Percentile £308 £293 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £683
90th Percentile £700 £700 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.36% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 94 162
10th Percentile £18.13 £15.76 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.32 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.72% -44.09% +155.81%
75th Percentile £63.58 £49.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.59 £71.25 £84.88
UK median hourly rate £33.25 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.31% -43.48% +161.36%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 19 June 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 +30 83 £525 -8.70% 237
South West +59 45 £600 +2.83% 36
North of England -2 33 £400 -24.88% 54
Yorkshire 0 27 £400 -24.88% 25
South East +53 14 £575 -1.20% 40
East of England +30 7 £550 -18.52% 16
Midlands +5 6 £525 -9.79% 15
North West - 6 £402 - 26
West Midlands 0 4 £538 -7.65% 10
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 5
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.47%) Confluence
2 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) JBoss
4 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 111 (58.42%) AWS
2 61 (32.11%) Azure
3 34 (17.89%) GitHub
4 31 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (16.32%) GCP
5 29 (15.26%) OpenShift
6 17 (8.95%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.84%) PaaS
7 13 (6.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.32%) IaaS
9 11 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.79%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.68%) Route 53
12 5 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.63%) AWS KMS
12 5 (2.63%) Serverless
13 4 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 55 (28.95%) DNS
2 53 (27.89%) Firewall
3 43 (22.63%) TCP/IP
4 30 (15.79%) DHCP
5 26 (13.68%) HTTP
6 22 (11.58%) VPN
7 10 (5.26%) Network Security
8 9 (4.74%) SMTP
9 8 (4.21%) Internet
10 7 (3.68%) SAN
10 7 (3.68%) SSH
11 6 (3.16%) Multicast
12 5 (2.63%) BGP
12 5 (2.63%) HSRP
12 5 (2.63%) IGMP
12 5 (2.63%) OSPF
12 5 (2.63%) VRRP
13 4 (2.11%) SNMP
13 4 (2.11%) SSL
14 3 (1.58%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.74%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.74%) Big Data
4 8 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.58%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.58%) MySQL
7 3 (1.58%) Redis
8 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 77 (40.53%) Jenkins
2 58 (30.53%) Git
3 44 (23.16%) GitLab
4 25 (13.16%) JIRA
5 17 (8.95%) Bitbucket
6 14 (7.37%) Maven
6 14 (7.37%) Postman
7 10 (5.26%) Artifactory
8 7 (3.68%) Selenium
9 6 (3.16%) Gradle
10 5 (2.63%) JUnit
10 5 (2.63%) Subversion
11 4 (2.11%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.11%) HP UFT
11 4 (2.11%) IntelliJ
11 4 (2.11%) NetBeans
11 4 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.58%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (19.47%) Finance
2 25 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.42%) Banking
3 16 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.58%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.58%) Military
7 3 (1.58%) Retail
8 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (22.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (18.42%) Senior
3 26 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (12.11%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
5 15 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) Architect
6 13 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) Network Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (5.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.74%) Lead
10 9 (4.74%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (6.84%) REST
3 11 (5.79%) SOAP
4 10 (5.26%) Kafka
5 8 (4.21%) Spring
6 7 (3.68%) J2EE
6 7 (3.68%) Node.js
6 7 (3.68%) YAML
7 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.16%) Web Services
8 5 (2.63%) LDAP
8 5 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.11%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.11%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.11%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.11%) JSON
9 4 (2.11%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.11%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.58%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (1.58%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.84%) Clustering
3 11 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.79%) PKI
4 8 (4.21%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.16%) Replication
6 5 (2.63%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.05%) IVR
9 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 123 (64.74%) Linux
2 66 (34.74%) Windows
3 38 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (18.95%) Windows Server
5 22 (11.58%) Unix
6 10 (5.26%) CentOS
7 6 (3.16%) Solaris
7 6 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.63%) AIX
9 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.58%) SUSE
10 3 (1.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (1.58%) VMS
11 2 (1.05%) Debian
11 2 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.05%) Rocky
12 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.53%) DevOps
2 87 (45.79%) Configuration Management
3 70 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 66 (34.74%) CI/CD
5 56 (29.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (22.11%) Agile
6 42 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (20.53%) Deployment Automation
8 29 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (14.21%) Service Management
10 24 (12.63%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (12.63%) Migration
11 23 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (10.00%) Microservices
13 16 (8.42%) High Availability
13 16 (8.42%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.42%) Validation
14 14 (7.37%) Data Management
15 13 (6.84%) DevSecOps
16 12 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 134 (70.53%) Python
2 72 (37.89%) Bash
3 67 (35.26%) PowerShell
4 34 (17.89%) Java
5 14 (7.37%) Shell Script
6 11 (5.79%) Perl
6 11 (5.79%) Ruby
7 10 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.74%) Groovy
9 8 (4.21%) Go
9 8 (4.21%) SQL
10 6 (3.16%) C++
11 5 (2.63%) C#
12 4 (2.11%) Bicep
13 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.53%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.53%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.53%) Korn
14 1 (0.53%) Scala
14 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 66 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.63%) DV Cleared
4 17 (8.95%) Degree
5 13 (6.84%) AWS Certification
6 12 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.79%) CCNP
7 11 (5.79%) RHCE
8 10 (5.26%) OCA
8 10 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (5.26%) RHCA
8 10 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.05%) CCIE
13 1 (0.53%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.53%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.68%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.16%) QA
3 3 (1.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.58%) NIST
3 3 (1.58%) SLA
4 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (41.05%) Docker
2 56 (29.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.16%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.37%) Active Directory
5 11 (5.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 10 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (4.74%) BitLocker
7 9 (4.74%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (4.74%) Terminal Services
8 4 (2.11%) iptables
9 3 (1.58%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (1.58%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 158 (83.16%) Ansible
2 98 (51.58%) Terraform
3 86 (45.26%) Kubernetes
4 67 (35.26%) Progress Chef
5 25 (13.16%) Grafana
5 25 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 19 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 15 (7.89%) Nagios
8 10 (5.26%) Salt
9 9 (4.74%) vMotion
10 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (3.16%) ZABBIX
12 5 (2.63%) Istio
12 5 (2.63%) SCCM
13 4 (2.11%) FortiGate
13 4 (2.11%) Graylog
13 4 (2.11%) Packer
14 3 (1.58%) Automic
14 3 (1.58%) Rundeck
14 3 (1.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (36.32%) VMware
2 45 (23.68%) Red Hat
3 30 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 24 (12.63%) Oracle
5 19 (10.00%) Cisco
6 17 (8.95%) Google
7 16 (8.42%) MuleSoft
8 15 (7.89%) Splunk
9 11 (5.79%) HP
10 10 (5.26%) Citrix
11 9 (4.74%) Symantec
12 8 (4.21%) Atlassian
12 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.63%) Arista
13 5 (2.63%) EMC
13 5 (2.63%) Fortinet
13 5 (2.63%) Veritas
14 4 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
15 3 (1.58%) AppDynamics
15 3 (1.58%) NetApp