Puppet Contracts in London

Puppet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 303 309
Rank change year-on-year +29 +6 -28
Contract jobs citing Puppet 86 104 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.20% 4.40% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 77 140
10th Percentile £413 £418 £461
25th Percentile £483 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £618
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -6.88% -0.40%
75th Percentile £653 £750 £675
90th Percentile £738 £768 £757
England median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -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 2,046 2,362 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.61% 13.40% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 1,701 2,995
10th Percentile £350 £335 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -10.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 48
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £22.43
25th Percentile £27.88 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -60.94% +167.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £41.63 £82.63
90th Percentile £62.95 £69.13 £90.00
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in London.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in London

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in London.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in London

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 3 July 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 +7 11 £553 -13.84% 13
South London - 1 - - 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 5 (5.81%) Apache
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) JBoss
3 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Shopify
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.12%) AWS
2 32 (37.21%) Azure
3 24 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (27.91%) GCP
4 17 (19.77%) GitHub
5 15 (17.44%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.47%) Amazon S3
7 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (10.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.81%) Route 53
10 4 (4.65%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.49%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.49%) Kong
11 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.09%) DNS
2 16 (18.60%) Firewall
3 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
4 9 (10.47%) HTTP
4 9 (10.47%) VPN
5 8 (9.30%) Internet
6 5 (5.81%) Multicast
6 5 (5.81%) SSH
7 4 (4.65%) BGP
7 4 (4.65%) DHCP
7 4 (4.65%) HSRP
7 4 (4.65%) IGMP
7 4 (4.65%) Network Security
7 4 (4.65%) OSPF
7 4 (4.65%) SNMP
7 4 (4.65%) VRRP
8 3 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.49%) Telnet
8 3 (3.49%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.65%) MySQL
5 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.49%) Hazelcast
5 3 (3.49%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.49%) Redis
6 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (40.70%) Jenkins
2 30 (34.88%) Git
3 21 (24.42%) GitLab
4 10 (11.63%) Artifactory
5 7 (8.14%) Maven
6 5 (5.81%) JIRA
7 3 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.49%) Subversion
8 2 (2.33%) Ant
8 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.33%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.33%) Gradle
8 2 (2.33%) JMeter
8 2 (2.33%) Mercurial
8 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.33%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.16%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.93%) Finance
2 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.95%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Electronics
8 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.33%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Senior
3 13 (15.12%) Network Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Architect
6 10 (11.63%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (10.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) DevOps Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Lead
11 4 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Site Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.58%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.98%) Kafka
3 5 (5.81%) Node.js
3 5 (5.81%) YAML
4 4 (4.65%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.65%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.65%) JSON
5 3 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.49%) J2EE
5 3 (3.49%) Spring
5 3 (3.49%) XML
6 2 (2.33%) Middleware
6 2 (2.33%) REST
6 2 (2.33%) VML
7 1 (1.16%) .NET
7 1 (1.16%) LAMP
7 1 (1.16%) LDAP
7 1 (1.16%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.16%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.98%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.65%) Replication
5 3 (3.49%) Clustering
5 3 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.33%) Blog
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.33%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.33%) IVR
6 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (65.12%) Linux
2 14 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (13.95%) Unix
3 12 (13.95%) Windows
4 6 (6.98%) CentOS
5 3 (3.49%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.33%) Rocky
6 2 (2.33%) SUSE
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.16%) AIX
7 1 (1.16%) Debian
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.16%) Solaris
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.81%) Configuration Management
2 45 (52.33%) DevOps
3 39 (45.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
4 37 (43.02%) Containerisation
5 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.26%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (16.28%) Microservices
9 12 (13.95%) Agile
9 12 (13.95%) High Availability
10 10 (11.63%) Migration
11 9 (10.47%) DevSecOps
11 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (10.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (9.30%) Cost Management
12 8 (9.30%) Kanban
12 8 (9.30%) Scrum
13 7 (8.14%) Observability
13 7 (8.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (67.44%) Python
2 30 (34.88%) Bash
3 18 (20.93%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.95%) Java
5 10 (11.63%) Go
5 10 (11.63%) Groovy
5 10 (11.63%) Perl
6 9 (10.47%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.30%) C++
7 8 (9.30%) Shell Script
8 7 (8.14%) Ruby
9 6 (6.98%) C#
9 6 (6.98%) SQL
10 3 (3.49%) PHP
11 1 (1.16%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.14%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (3.49%) CCNP
8 2 (2.33%) CCIE
8 2 (2.33%) CCNA
9 1 (1.16%) RHCE
9 1 (1.16%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.16%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (47.67%) Docker
2 9 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) iptables
4 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.49%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.16%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 77 (89.53%) Ansible
2 59 (68.60%) Terraform
3 52 (60.47%) Kubernetes
4 39 (45.35%) Progress Chef
5 23 (26.74%) Prometheus
6 19 (22.09%) Grafana
7 7 (8.14%) Nagios
7 7 (8.14%) Salt
8 5 (5.81%) Istio
9 3 (3.49%) Cacti
9 3 (3.49%) Control-M
9 3 (3.49%) FortiGate
9 3 (3.49%) Netcool
9 3 (3.49%) Packer
9 3 (3.49%) Proxmox
9 3 (3.49%) Rundeck
9 3 (3.49%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.49%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Red Hat
2 13 (15.12%) VMware
3 10 (11.63%) Oracle
4 9 (10.47%) Google
5 7 (8.14%) Cisco
5 7 (8.14%) Splunk
6 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.65%) Arista
7 4 (4.65%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.65%) SAP
8 3 (3.49%) New Relic
8 3 (3.49%) Nokia
9 2 (2.33%) Adobe
9 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.33%) EMC
9 2 (2.33%) NetApp
9 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
9 2 (2.33%) Veritas