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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 303 275
Rank change year-on-year -65 -28 0
Contract jobs citing Puppet 26 54 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 2.63% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 91
10th Percentile £474 £440 £400
25th Percentile £514 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £719
90th Percentile £734 £708 £763
England median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -26.92%

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 2,408 2,054 2,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.15% 15.31% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,658 1,375 1,695
10th Percentile £350 £366 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £650
90th Percentile £725 £809 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +70.47% +1.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -14 6 £530 -
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (38.46%) IaaS
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
5 6 (23.08%) Azure
6 5 (19.23%) GCP
6 5 (19.23%) GitHub
7 4 (15.38%) PaaS
8 3 (11.54%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (11.54%) Datadog
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.54%) Serverless
8 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) VPN
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) DNS
3 4 (15.38%) SMTP
4 1 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) CMake
5 1 (3.85%) Gradle
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Site Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) NetApp Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Build Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.85%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 4 (15.38%) PKI
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (30.77%) Windows
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.54%) Unix
6 1 (3.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
4 9 (34.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (30.77%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Analytics
7 6 (23.08%) Observability
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
10 3 (11.54%) Build Automation
10 3 (11.54%) Change Management
10 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
10 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
10 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) RHCE
5 1 (3.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) BitLocker
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) GPFS
4 1 (3.85%) KVM
4 1 (3.85%) Lustre
4 1 (3.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (80.77%) Ansible
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 9 (34.62%) Progress Chef
5 8 (30.77%) Grafana
6 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
6 4 (15.38%) vMotion
7 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (7.69%) Salt
9 1 (3.85%) Ambari
9 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
9 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) PagerDuty
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
4 4 (15.38%) NetApp
5 2 (7.69%) New Relic
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) Commvault
6 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic