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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 281 280
Rank change year-on-year -116 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Puppet 53 84 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.93% 3.96% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 69
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -14.40%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £763
England median daily rate £553 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -11.29%

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 2,752 2,120 2,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.66% 15.50% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 1,406 1,625
10th Percentile £360 £331 £339
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.11% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 26
10th Percentile £31.18 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £21.33
Median hourly rate £62.75 £40.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% +62.67% -60.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - £62.80 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.45 £54.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +20.09% +45.33% -25.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -27 9 £625 +19.05% 2
South London -14 1 £535 -
West London - 1 - - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 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 6 (11.32%) JBoss
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) GitHub
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.98%) Datadog
4 9 (16.98%) GCP
4 9 (16.98%) Serverless
5 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
5 8 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (15.09%) IaaS
5 8 (15.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (11.32%) PaaS
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Firewall
2 11 (20.75%) DNS
3 10 (18.87%) VPN
4 6 (11.32%) DHCP
4 6 (11.32%) Kerberos
4 6 (11.32%) SMTP
5 5 (9.43%) SSL
6 4 (7.55%) WAN
7 3 (5.66%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (3.77%) Network Security
9 1 (1.89%) NAS
9 1 (1.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Big Data
2 8 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (13.21%) Hadoop
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.55%) MySQL
5 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.77%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) Git
2 20 (37.74%) GitLab
3 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (11.32%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.77%) JIRA
5 2 (3.77%) Subversion
6 1 (1.89%) Introscope
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Publishing
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Military
5 2 (3.77%) Police
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (26.42%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Engineering Specialist
8 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.66%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) NetApp Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) ARM Templates
2 5 (9.43%) Kafka
2 5 (9.43%) YAML
3 4 (7.55%) Keycloak
4 3 (5.66%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.89%) boto
5 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.89%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.89%) Middleware
5 1 (1.89%) OAuth
5 1 (1.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Clustering
2 10 (18.87%) PKI
3 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) PMI
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (67.92%) Linux
2 21 (39.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (26.42%) Windows
4 6 (11.32%) Unix
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
5 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.89%) AIX
7 1 (1.89%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) DevOps
2 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 27 (50.94%) Configuration Management
3 27 (50.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (39.62%) Containerisation
5 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (28.30%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (20.75%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.98%) Agile
7 9 (16.98%) Observability
8 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (13.21%) AI
9 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (13.21%) High Availability
9 7 (13.21%) ITIL
9 7 (13.21%) Load Balancing
9 7 (13.21%) Microservices
9 7 (13.21%) Task Automation
10 6 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (71.70%) Python
2 25 (47.17%) Bash
3 20 (37.74%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.43%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) Bicep
5 4 (7.55%) C
5 4 (7.55%) C++
6 3 (5.66%) Perl
7 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.89%) Jython
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
8 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 23 (43.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
4 8 (15.09%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Degree
6 2 (3.77%) CISSP
6 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.77%) SSCP
7 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.77%) SOC 1
3 2 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (50.94%) Docker
2 16 (30.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (24.53%) Active Directory
4 9 (16.98%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.32%) BitLocker
5 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
5 6 (11.32%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.66%) Terminal Services
7 2 (3.77%) HDFS
8 1 (1.89%) NFS
8 1 (1.89%) Samba
8 1 (1.89%) Squid
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (75.47%) Ansible
2 33 (62.26%) Kubernetes
3 29 (54.72%) Terraform
4 19 (35.85%) Prometheus
5 18 (33.96%) Grafana
6 16 (30.19%) Progress Chef
7 9 (16.98%) vCenter Server
8 6 (11.32%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (11.32%) vMotion
9 5 (9.43%) Salt
10 4 (7.55%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (7.55%) Nagios
11 3 (5.66%) Packer
11 3 (5.66%) systemd
11 3 (5.66%) yum
12 2 (3.77%) Nexpose
13 1 (1.89%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.89%) Check_MK
13 1 (1.89%) OpenNMS
13 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) VMware
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
3 14 (26.42%) Red Hat
4 7 (13.21%) Google
5 6 (11.32%) Citrix
5 6 (11.32%) SaltStack
6 5 (9.43%) Cisco
6 5 (9.43%) Databricks
6 5 (9.43%) NetApp
7 3 (5.66%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.66%) HP
7 3 (5.66%) PagerDuty
7 3 (5.66%) Symantec
8 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
8 2 (3.77%) EMC
8 2 (3.77%) Tenable
9 1 (1.89%) Dell
9 1 (1.89%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.89%) Informatica
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle