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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 281 268
Rank change year-on-year -93 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Puppet 27 70 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.11% 3.43% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 86
10th Percentile £501 £413 £391
25th Percentile £515 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £734
90th Percentile £735 £653 £769
England median daily rate £530 £550 £582
% change year-on-year -3.64% -5.50% -6.88%
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% -33.57%

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 2,435 2,043 2,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.76% 16.01% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 1,392 1,609
10th Percentile £350 £369 £313
25th Percentile £429 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 37
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +42.94% -55.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £58.00
90th Percentile - £110.30 £61.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +107.55% -16.54% -41.39%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -12 5 £530 -
Central London -23 1 - - 2
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 (3.70%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.70%) SAS
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) IaaS
3 11 (40.74%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 6 (22.22%) PaaS
7 5 (18.52%) Azure
7 5 (18.52%) GCP
7 5 (18.52%) GitHub
8 3 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (11.11%) Datadog
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.11%) Serverless
8 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (7.41%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) VPN
2 7 (25.93%) Firewall
3 6 (22.22%) DHCP
3 6 (22.22%) DNS
3 6 (22.22%) SMTP
4 1 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (25.93%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) CMake
5 1 (3.70%) Gradle
5 1 (3.70%) Introscope
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Site Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) NetApp Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Build Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.41%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Bazel
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Clustering
2 6 (22.22%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) PMI
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) Windows
3 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.11%) Unix
6 1 (3.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (29.63%) Agile
5 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Analytics
7 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
7 6 (22.22%) Observability
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (11.11%) Build Automation
10 3 (11.11%) Change Management
10 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
3 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 5 (18.52%) Java
5 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.41%) SQL
7 1 (3.70%) C++
7 1 (3.70%) Groovy
7 1 (3.70%) Jython
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) Docker
2 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
3 6 (22.22%) BitLocker
3 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) GPFS
4 1 (3.70%) Lustre
4 1 (3.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (81.48%) Ansible
2 15 (55.56%) Terraform
3 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
4 8 (29.63%) Progress Chef
5 7 (25.93%) Grafana
6 6 (22.22%) vCenter Server
6 6 (22.22%) vMotion
7 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (7.41%) Salt
9 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
9 1 (3.70%) NetBackup
9 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Citrix
2 6 (22.22%) NetApp
2 6 (22.22%) PagerDuty
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) New Relic
4 1 (3.70%) Commvault
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic