Puppet Contract Job Trends in London

Puppet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 296 281
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Puppet 35 63 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.55% 3.03% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 92
10th Percentile £475 £469 £383
25th Percentile £505 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £608 £622 £711
90th Percentile £665 £638 £774
England median daily rate £530 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -7.84% +2.24% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.85% -

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,256 2,077 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.62% 14.81% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 1,369 1,818
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £721 £788 £750
England median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 29
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.55 £16.86
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £53.25 £29.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year +83.62% -23.99% +50.48%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.99 £104.80 £71.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +19.95%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Puppet job vacancy trend in London

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in London

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the London region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
South London +4 6 £530 - 1
Central London -7 3 £495 -7.91% 3
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (11.43%) SAS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Luigi
2 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.86%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) GitHub
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon S3
3 12 (34.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (34.29%) Azure
4 10 (28.57%) IaaS
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (22.86%) GCP
7 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (11.43%) Datadog
8 4 (11.43%) PaaS
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (8.57%) Serverless
9 3 (8.57%) Stackdriver
10 2 (5.71%) Apigee
10 2 (5.71%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) VPN
2 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 3 (8.57%) DHCP
3 3 (8.57%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) SMTP
4 1 (2.86%) HTTP
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.57%) MySQL
5 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.86%) AllegroGraph
7 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.86%) Pentaho
7 1 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.86%) Tableau
7 1 (2.86%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) GitLab
2 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.71%) Gradle
5 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) CMake
5 1 (2.86%) ERwin
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) Mocha
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Site Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) NetApp Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Kafka
2 3 (8.57%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.57%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.71%) OpenID
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) Swagger
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
4 1 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.86%) Bazel
4 1 (2.86%) Fastify
4 1 (2.86%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Clustering
4 3 (8.57%) PKI
5 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.71%) Hedge funds
5 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.86%) IVR
6 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (65.71%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Windows
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.57%) Unix
5 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.71%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (51.43%) Configuration Management
3 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 15 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 13 (37.14%) DevOps
6 10 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) Agile
8 7 (20.00%) Analytics
8 7 (20.00%) Observability
9 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (14.29%) High Availability
10 5 (14.29%) Microservices
11 4 (11.43%) BCP
11 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
11 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
11 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (11.43%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) Bash
3 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) Java
5 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) RHCE
4 2 (5.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.57%) BitLocker
3 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.71%) KVM
5 1 (2.86%) GPFS
5 1 (2.86%) Lustre
5 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (71.43%) Ansible
2 23 (65.71%) Terraform
3 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 11 (31.43%) Progress Chef
5 10 (28.57%) Grafana
6 4 (11.43%) NetBackup
6 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
7 3 (8.57%) vMotion
8 2 (5.71%) Istio
9 1 (2.86%) Ambari
9 1 (2.86%) Salt
9 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.14%) PagerDuty
2 5 (14.29%) SnapLogic
2 5 (14.29%) VMware
3 4 (11.43%) Commvault
3 4 (11.43%) Google
4 3 (8.57%) Citrix
4 3 (8.57%) NetApp
4 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.57%) Splunk
5 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.71%) New Relic
6 1 (2.86%) Informatica
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle
6 1 (2.86%) Tenable
6 1 (2.86%) Zoomdata