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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 284 287
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Puppet 74 107 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.60% 0.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.72% 4.92% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 81 172
10th Percentile £413 £407 £463
25th Percentile £463 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +3.66%
75th Percentile £645 £763 £700
90th Percentile £700 £775 £786
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £95.00 £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.10% +41.82%

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 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +1 8 £675 - 4
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 4 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) IIS
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) JBoss
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Shopify
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.76%) AWS
2 25 (33.78%) Azure
3 15 (20.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (17.57%) GCP
6 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
7 8 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (8.11%) GitHub
10 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.76%) Route 53
11 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
11 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (4.05%) AWS KMS
12 3 (4.05%) Kong
13 2 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (2.70%) Cloud Run
13 2 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.62%) DNS
1 16 (21.62%) Firewall
2 9 (12.16%) TCP/IP
3 8 (10.81%) HTTP
4 7 (9.46%) Internet
4 7 (9.46%) VPN
5 6 (8.11%) Multicast
6 5 (6.76%) BGP
6 5 (6.76%) HSRP
6 5 (6.76%) IGMP
6 5 (6.76%) OSPF
6 5 (6.76%) SSH
6 5 (6.76%) VRRP
7 4 (5.41%) Network Security
7 4 (5.41%) SNMP
8 3 (4.05%) DHCP
8 3 (4.05%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (4.05%) Telnet
8 3 (4.05%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.46%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.41%) MySQL
4 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.05%) Hazelcast
4 3 (4.05%) Redis
5 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (36.49%) Jenkins
2 20 (27.03%) GitLab
3 15 (20.27%) Git
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
4 4 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.70%) JMeter
5 2 (2.70%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.35%) Ant
6 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (21.62%) Finance
2 14 (18.92%) Banking
3 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Military
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (24.32%) Senior
2 14 (18.92%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (17.57%) Network Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (13.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Architect
8 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) DevOps Specialist
9 5 (6.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 4 (5.41%) Site Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.32%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.76%) Kafka
3 4 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 4 (5.41%) YAML
4 3 (4.05%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.05%) J2EE
4 3 (4.05%) JSON
4 3 (4.05%) Spring
4 3 (4.05%) XML
5 2 (2.70%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.70%) LDAP
5 2 (2.70%) VML
6 1 (1.35%) .NET
6 1 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.35%) Classic ASP
6 1 (1.35%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.35%) Middleware
6 1 (1.35%) PostGIS
6 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.81%) Hedge funds
3 6 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Replication
5 3 (4.05%) Clustering
5 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.70%) PKI
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.35%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (68.92%) Linux
2 14 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (17.57%) Windows
4 9 (12.16%) Unix
5 6 (8.11%) CentOS
6 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.70%) Rocky
8 2 (2.70%) SUSE
9 1 (1.35%) AIX
9 1 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.35%) Solaris
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.76%) Configuration Management
2 39 (52.70%) DevOps
3 32 (43.24%) Containerisation
4 29 (39.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (36.49%) CI/CD
6 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (25.68%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (16.22%) High Availability
10 9 (12.16%) DevSecOps
10 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (12.16%) Task Automation
11 8 (10.81%) Low Latency
11 8 (10.81%) Microservices
12 7 (9.46%) Computer Science
12 7 (9.46%) Cost Management
12 7 (9.46%) Observability
12 7 (9.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (59.46%) Python
2 30 (40.54%) Bash
3 12 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.16%) Java
4 9 (12.16%) Perl
5 7 (9.46%) Ruby
6 6 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.11%) SQL
7 2 (2.70%) C#
8 1 (1.35%) Bicep
8 1 (1.35%) C++
8 1 (1.35%) Go
8 1 (1.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) Degree
4 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.70%) CCIE
8 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.35%) CCNP
9 1 (1.35%) CISA
9 1 (1.35%) CISM
9 1 (1.35%) CISSP
9 1 (1.35%) CRISC
9 1 (1.35%) RHCE
9 1 (1.35%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.35%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.05%) SLA
3 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.70%) NIST
3 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.35%) COBIT
4 1 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (43.24%) Docker
2 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.05%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (4.05%) iptables
5 2 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.35%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.35%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (89.19%) Ansible
2 44 (59.46%) Terraform
3 42 (56.76%) Kubernetes
4 34 (45.95%) Progress Chef
5 19 (25.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (24.32%) Grafana
7 7 (9.46%) Salt
8 6 (8.11%) Nagios
9 4 (5.41%) FortiGate
9 4 (5.41%) ZABBIX
10 3 (4.05%) Cacti
10 3 (4.05%) Control-M
10 3 (4.05%) Istio
10 3 (4.05%) Netcool
10 3 (4.05%) Packer
10 3 (4.05%) Proxmox
10 3 (4.05%) Rundeck
11 2 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (2.70%) Graylog
11 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (27.03%) Red Hat
2 11 (14.86%) VMware
3 9 (12.16%) Oracle
4 7 (9.46%) Cisco
4 7 (9.46%) Google
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.76%) Arista
5 5 (6.76%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.76%) Splunk
6 3 (4.05%) Nokia
7 2 (2.70%) Adobe
7 2 (2.70%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.70%) EMC
7 2 (2.70%) NetApp
7 2 (2.70%) New Relic
7 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.70%) SAP
7 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.70%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.70%) Veritas