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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 303 281
Rank change year-on-year -43 -22 -14
Contract jobs citing Puppet 33 67 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.48% 3.04% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 93
10th Percentile £388 £450 £385
25th Percentile £496 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £700
90th Percentile £645 £638 £763
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.83%
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 2,232 2,204 2,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.50% 14.95% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,454 1,876
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -1.49% -8.60%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
England median daily rate £511 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.78% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 29
10th Percentile £20.94 £22.30 £20.23
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £27.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.65 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -29.91% +132.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £72.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.32 £106.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +27.89%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
South London -3 6 £530 -
Central London -4 4 £485 -9.77% 10
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 (12.12%) SAS
2 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) Luigi
3 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.03%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 12 (36.36%) GitHub
4 11 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (33.33%) Azure
5 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (27.27%) IaaS
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (18.18%) GCP
7 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (9.09%) PaaS
9 3 (9.09%) Stackdriver
10 2 (6.06%) Apigee
10 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
10 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.06%) Datadog
10 2 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) DHCP
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) SMTP
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 3 (9.09%) MySQL
5 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.03%) ArangoDB
7 1 (3.03%) Azkaban
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data
7 1 (3.03%) CrateDB
7 1 (3.03%) MemSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.03%) Power BI
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) Gradle
6 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.03%) CMake
6 1 (3.03%) ERwin
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
6 1 (3.03%) Mocha
6 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Site Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
2 3 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.06%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.06%) OpenID
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Swagger
3 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) Bazel
4 1 (3.03%) Fastify
4 1 (3.03%) Jest
4 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Hedge funds
4 2 (6.06%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.03%) IVR
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (15.15%) Unix
5 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.06%) CentOS
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Configuration Management
1 19 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.15%) High Availability
8 4 (12.12%) Analytics
8 4 (12.12%) BCP
8 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
8 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity Planning
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.12%) Mathematics
8 4 (12.12%) Microservices
8 4 (12.12%) SOA
9 3 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
5 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.06%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) RHCE
4 2 (6.06%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) QA
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) BitLocker
3 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.06%) KVM
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.03%) GPFS
4 1 (3.03%) Lustre
4 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Terraform
2 21 (63.64%) Ansible
3 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
4 11 (33.33%) Grafana
5 8 (24.24%) Progress Chef
6 4 (12.12%) NetBackup
6 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (9.09%) Ambari
7 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (9.09%) ZABBIX
8 2 (6.06%) Istio
8 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
8 2 (6.06%) vMotion
9 1 (3.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) PagerDuty
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) SnapLogic
3 4 (12.12%) Commvault
3 4 (12.12%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.12%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Citrix
5 2 (6.06%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.06%) NetApp
6 1 (3.03%) Informatica
6 1 (3.03%) Tenable
6 1 (3.03%) Zoomdata