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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 307 282
Rank change year-on-year -33 -25 -19
Contract jobs citing Puppet 36 68 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.60% 3.05% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 93
10th Percentile £388 £450 £385
25th Percentile £496 £505 £463
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 £573 £563
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.78% -7.41%
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 2,243 2,226 2,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.51% 14.94% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 1,459 1,941
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 30
10th Percentile £21.18 £22.30 £21.12
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.65 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -31.10% +136.00%
75th Percentile £62.69 £72.13 £66.50
90th Percentile £63.32 £106.00 £77.13
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.28% -41.80% +31.94%

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 26 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 26 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 - 2
Central London +2 4 £485 -9.77% 6
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 (11.11%) SAS
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) Luigi
3 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.78%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) Azure
3 13 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (36.11%) GitHub
4 12 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 12 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (25.00%) GCP
6 9 (25.00%) IaaS
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.33%) PaaS
10 3 (8.33%) Stackdriver
11 2 (5.56%) Apigee
11 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
11 2 (5.56%) Datadog
11 2 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (5.56%) SMTP
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (30.56%) SQL Server
3 9 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.33%) MySQL
5 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) AllegroGraph
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.78%) ArangoDB
7 1 (2.78%) Azkaban
7 1 (2.78%) Big Data
7 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.78%) MemSQL
7 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.78%) Redis
7 1 (2.78%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (19.44%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.56%) Gradle
6 1 (2.78%) CMake
6 1 (2.78%) ERwin
6 1 (2.78%) Maven
6 1 (2.78%) Mocha
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Site Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Junior
7 1 (2.78%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.56%) OAuth
3 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.56%) OpenID
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) Swagger
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.78%) Bazel
4 1 (2.78%) Fastify
4 1 (2.78%) Jest
4 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Clustering
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.78%) IVR
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Windows
3 7 (19.44%) Unix
4 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.56%) CentOS
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Configuration Management
1 21 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (47.22%) Containerisation
4 15 (41.67%) DevOps
5 12 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) High Availability
9 4 (11.11%) Analytics
9 4 (11.11%) BCP
9 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
9 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
9 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
9 4 (11.11%) Microservices
9 4 (11.11%) SOA
10 3 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) Bash
3 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
4 7 (19.44%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Groovy
6 2 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) RHCE
4 2 (5.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (58.33%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) BitLocker
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) KVM
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.78%) GPFS
4 1 (2.78%) Lustre
4 1 (2.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (69.44%) Terraform
2 24 (66.67%) Ansible
3 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 11 (30.56%) Grafana
5 10 (27.78%) Progress Chef
6 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (11.11%) NetBackup
8 3 (8.33%) Ambari
8 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (8.33%) ZABBIX
9 2 (5.56%) Istio
9 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
9 2 (5.56%) vMotion
10 1 (2.78%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) SnapLogic
3 4 (11.11%) Commvault
3 4 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.56%) NetApp
6 1 (2.78%) Informatica
6 1 (2.78%) Tenable
6 1 (2.78%) Zoomdata