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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 267 292
Rank change year-on-year -111 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Puppet 30 77 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.62% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.23% 3.95% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 54 77
10th Percentile £464 £413 £404
25th Percentile £514 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £763
90th Percentile - £700 £785
England median daily rate £537 £575 £579
% change year-on-year -6.61% -0.61% -7.44%
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% -39.10%

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 2,433 1,948 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.78% 15.76% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,677 1,332 1,567
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £432 £435 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £668 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £510 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.24% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 35
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £18.67
25th Percentile £32.00 £27.73 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.38 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% +65.43% -62.51%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.22 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
% change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -52.49%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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
Central London -14 3 £525 -16.33% 3
South London -11 2 £530 -
West London - 1 - -
East London - 1 £432 -
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 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (3.33%) nginx
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
1 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 10 (33.33%) GitHub
4 9 (30.00%) IaaS
5 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (23.33%) PaaS
7 6 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (16.67%) Azure AKS
8 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Serverless
9 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (13.33%) GCP
9 4 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
2 9 (30.00%) VPN
3 8 (26.67%) DNS
4 7 (23.33%) DHCP
4 7 (23.33%) SMTP
5 3 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.33%) NAS
6 1 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) GitLab
2 7 (23.33%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) Introscope
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Police
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Site Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) ARM Templates
1 4 (13.33%) YAML
2 3 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 7 (23.33%) Clustering
3 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
6 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Windows
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (10.00%) Unix
6 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.33%) AIX
7 1 (3.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (53.33%) DevOps
4 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 11 (36.67%) Configuration Management
6 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (26.67%) Incident Management
7 8 (26.67%) Observability
8 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Analytics
10 5 (16.67%) API Management
10 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (13.33%) Microservices
11 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 3 (10.00%) Data Science
12 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (40.00%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) Bicep
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Jython
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.33%) SOC 1
3 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) Docker
2 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (23.33%) BitLocker
4 7 (23.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (23.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (83.33%) Ansible
2 22 (73.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (63.33%) Terraform
4 11 (36.67%) Progress Chef
5 9 (30.00%) Grafana
5 9 (30.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (23.33%) vCenter Server
6 7 (23.33%) vMotion
7 3 (10.00%) Salt
8 1 (3.33%) CA Wily
8 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
8 1 (3.33%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) VMware
3 7 (23.33%) Citrix
3 7 (23.33%) NetApp
4 4 (13.33%) Databricks
5 3 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.67%) New Relic
6 2 (6.67%) PagerDuty
7 1 (3.33%) Commvault
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle
7 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.33%) SaltStack
7 1 (3.33%) SnapLogic