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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 321 286
Rank change year-on-year -79 -35 +30
Contract jobs citing Puppet 60 47 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.62% 2.58% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 58
10th Percentile £376 £476 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £625
90th Percentile £725 £765 £763
England median daily rate £575 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% 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 2,289 1,819 2,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.31% 13.67% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,185 1,341
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £436 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £718 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 20
10th Percentile £24.02 £21.09 -
25th Percentile £26.79 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +43.52% -55.00%
75th Percentile £79.69 £59.81 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £101.20
England median hourly rate £66.35 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +95.13% -9.93% -28.10%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -20 8 £625 +22.55% 6
South London -9 1 £535 -
West London - 1 - -
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 7 (11.67%) JBoss
2 6 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.00%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.33%) nginx
5 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) AWS
2 20 (33.33%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) GCP
4 12 (20.00%) Datadog
5 11 (18.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (18.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 10 (16.67%) GitHub
7 8 (13.33%) IaaS
7 8 (13.33%) Serverless
8 7 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) Firewall
2 12 (20.00%) DNS
3 9 (15.00%) VPN
4 7 (11.67%) Kerberos
4 7 (11.67%) SSL
5 4 (6.67%) DHCP
5 4 (6.67%) WAN
6 3 (5.00%) SMTP
7 2 (3.33%) Network Security
7 2 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.67%) BGP
8 1 (1.67%) IPv4
8 1 (1.67%) IPv6
8 1 (1.67%) MPLS
8 1 (1.67%) NAS
8 1 (1.67%) SAN
8 1 (1.67%) SSH
8 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Big Data
2 10 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 7 (11.67%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.00%) MySQL
4 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.67%) Apache Hive
6 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
8 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (41.67%) Git
2 23 (38.33%) GitLab
3 22 (36.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.33%) JIRA
5 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Publishing
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Military
6 2 (3.33%) Police
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Administrator
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (51.67%) Terraform
2 9 (15.00%) Kafka
3 7 (11.67%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (10.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.00%) OAuth
5 3 (5.00%) OpenID
5 3 (5.00%) Pulumi
6 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.33%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (3.33%) YAML
7 1 (1.67%) boto
7 1 (1.67%) Django
7 1 (1.67%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Clustering
1 10 (16.67%) PKI
2 9 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Replication
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (76.67%) Linux
2 27 (45.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (25.00%) Windows
4 9 (15.00%) Unix
5 6 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (8.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.33%) CentOS
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 34 (56.67%) Configuration Management
2 34 (56.67%) DevOps
3 29 (48.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (35.00%) Containerisation
4 21 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (23.33%) Observability
8 11 (18.33%) Agile
9 10 (16.67%) ITIL
10 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (15.00%) Load Balancing
11 8 (13.33%) AI
11 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.33%) High Availability
11 8 (13.33%) Open Source
11 8 (13.33%) Task Automation
12 7 (11.67%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 45 (75.00%) Python
2 24 (40.00%) Bash
3 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.67%) C++
5 9 (15.00%) C
6 7 (11.67%) Java
7 6 (10.00%) Perl
8 4 (6.67%) SQL
9 3 (5.00%) Bicep
9 3 (5.00%) C#
9 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.33%) Go
10 2 (3.33%) Scala
11 1 (1.67%) Groovy
11 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (48.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CISSP
6 2 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.33%) SSCP
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.33%) SOC 1
3 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (38.33%) Docker
2 14 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.67%) HDFS
6 3 (5.00%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.00%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.67%) NFS
7 1 (1.67%) Samba
7 1 (1.67%) Squid
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (70.00%) Ansible
2 33 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 22 (36.67%) Prometheus
4 21 (35.00%) Grafana
5 20 (33.33%) Progress Chef
6 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (10.00%) vCenter Server
8 5 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (6.67%) Nagios
9 4 (6.67%) Salt
10 3 (5.00%) Argo
10 3 (5.00%) Packer
10 3 (5.00%) systemd
10 3 (5.00%) vMotion
10 3 (5.00%) yum
11 2 (3.33%) Control-M
11 2 (3.33%) Nexpose
12 1 (1.67%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.67%) OpenNMS
12 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Red Hat
1 19 (31.67%) VMware
2 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (20.00%) SaltStack
4 8 (13.33%) Google
5 7 (11.67%) Cisco
6 4 (6.67%) Cloudera
7 3 (5.00%) Citrix
7 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
7 3 (5.00%) HP
7 3 (5.00%) PagerDuty
7 3 (5.00%) Symantec
8 2 (3.33%) Databricks
8 2 (3.33%) EMC
8 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.33%) Informatica
8 2 (3.33%) NetApp
8 2 (3.33%) Talend
8 2 (3.33%) Tenable
9 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds