Puppet Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Puppet
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 78 86
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Puppet 8 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.84% 1.17% 1.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.76% 5.82% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile - £533 £503
25th Percentile £563 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +1.22% +19.76%
75th Percentile £591 £606 £650
90th Percentile £600 £662 £748
South East median daily rate £575 £573 £563
% change year-on-year +0.44% +1.78% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 168 275 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.70% 20.03% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 194 107
10th Percentile £412 £385 £315
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -55.45% +147.19%
75th Percentile £21.00 £26.75 £67.93
90th Percentile - - £76.50
South East median hourly rate £30.39 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.98% -34.25% +62.96%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Hampshire

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Puppet

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Basingstoke - 8 £575 -
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) IaaS
1 8 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (100.00%) Big Data
1 8 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Nagios
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Google
1 8 (100.00%) HP
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Symantec
1 8 (100.00%) VMware