Puppeteer Contracts in England

Puppeteer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Puppeteer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppeteer over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 540 641
Rank change year-on-year +63 +101 +121
Contract jobs citing Puppeteer 8 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.005% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.027% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile £400 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £413 £570
90th Percentile - £420 -
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Puppeteer falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Puppeteer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppeteer in England

Puppeteer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Puppeteer in England

Puppeteer
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 Puppeteer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +43 6 £438 +16.67% 7
North of England +20 2 £500 +17.65%
North West +18 2 £500 +17.65%
Puppeteer
UK

Puppeteer
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Apigee
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Functional Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) PagerDuty