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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 284 307
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing Puppet 54 101 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.62% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.62% 4.33% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 66 101
10th Percentile £413 £407 £463
25th Percentile £495 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -10.57% -1.60%
75th Percentile £653 £622 £688
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £555 £595
% change year-on-year -5.36% -6.76% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -79.49% -

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 2,058 2,335 3,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.30% 14.33% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,349 1,587 2,607
10th Percentile £343 £334 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 39
10th Percentile £25.20 £21.16 £25.12
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £63.71 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet 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 18 September 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 18 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
Central London +2 10 £510 -7.27% 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
1 3 (5.56%) SAS
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Luigi
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (70.37%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 23 (42.59%) GitHub
3 21 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (38.89%) GCP
4 14 (25.93%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (12.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
8 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (9.26%) Stackdriver
9 4 (7.41%) Apigee
9 4 (7.41%) SaaS
10 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.70%) Datadog
10 2 (3.70%) IaaS
10 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) DNS
2 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.96%) HTTP
4 6 (11.11%) Internet
5 5 (9.26%) Firewall
5 5 (9.26%) VPN
6 2 (3.70%) DHCP
7 1 (1.85%) DSL
7 1 (1.85%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.56%) MySQL
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.70%) Big Data
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.85%) ArangoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Azkaban
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.85%) MemSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
6 1 (1.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.85%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 25 (46.30%) Jenkins
2 15 (27.78%) Git
3 12 (22.22%) GitLab
4 9 (16.67%) Artifactory
5 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 4 (7.41%) Maven
6 3 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (5.56%) Gradle
6 3 (5.56%) Subversion
7 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.70%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.85%) Ant
8 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.85%) ERwin
8 1 (1.85%) JMeter
8 1 (1.85%) Mocha
8 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.85%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Electronics
4 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
4 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Architect
6 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Administrator
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.96%) Node.js
3 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.41%) YAML
5 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) OAuth
5 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.70%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.70%) OpenID
5 2 (3.70%) REST
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) Swagger
6 1 (1.85%) Fastify
6 1 (1.85%) Jest
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) LAMP
6 1 (1.85%) Middleware
6 1 (1.85%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) IVR
4 2 (3.70%) Blog
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.85%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Unix
2 9 (16.67%) Windows
3 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.56%) CentOS
5 1 (1.85%) Debian
5 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) Configuration Management
1 33 (61.11%) DevOps
2 29 (53.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 15 (27.78%) Agile
5 11 (20.37%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (20.37%) Microservices
6 10 (18.52%) High Availability
7 9 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (16.67%) Migration
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Kanban
8 8 (14.81%) Scrum
9 6 (11.11%) Cost Management
9 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Task Automation
9 6 (11.11%) User Stories
10 5 (9.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (68.52%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 13 (24.07%) Bash
4 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.67%) Go
5 9 (16.67%) Groovy
6 8 (14.81%) C++
6 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
7 6 (11.11%) Java
8 5 (9.26%) C#
8 5 (9.26%) SQL
9 3 (5.56%) PHP
9 3 (5.56%) Ruby
10 2 (3.70%) Perl
11 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.70%) CCNA
6 2 (3.70%) CCNP
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.70%) RHCE
6 2 (3.70%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (57.41%) Docker
2 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.70%) KVM
5 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.85%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) iptables
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.85%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.85%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 44 (81.48%) Terraform
2 42 (77.78%) Ansible
3 33 (61.11%) Kubernetes
4 23 (42.59%) Progress Chef
5 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
6 12 (22.22%) Grafana
7 4 (7.41%) Istio
8 3 (5.56%) NetBackup
8 3 (5.56%) Salt
8 3 (5.56%) vCenter Server
9 2 (3.70%) Ambari
9 2 (3.70%) Nagios
9 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.70%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.85%) Icinga
10 1 (1.85%) Podman
10 1 (1.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Google
2 8 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 8 (14.81%) VMware
3 5 (9.26%) Splunk
4 4 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) SnapLogic
5 3 (5.56%) Commvault
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.56%) SAP
6 2 (3.70%) New Relic
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) HP
7 1 (1.85%) Informatica
7 1 (1.85%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.85%) Sitecore