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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 301 291
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 -19
Contract jobs citing Puppet 44 79 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.98% 3.49% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 99
10th Percentile £438 £450 £406
25th Percentile £495 £498 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.30% -9.34%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £753 £735 £753
England median daily rate £525 £557 £560
% change year-on-year -5.75% -0.54% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
% 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 2,224 2,265 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.92% 14.60% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 1,484 2,295
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £765 £779
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 36
10th Percentile £21.82 £22.81 £22.38
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £30.25
Median hourly rate £34.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £61.88 £67.75
90th Percentile £66.02 £103.60 £85.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +2 7 £495 -7.91% 19
South London -1 3 £528 - 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 4 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.82%) SAS
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) IIS
4 1 (2.27%) JBoss
4 1 (2.27%) Luigi
4 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (63.64%) AWS
2 22 (50.00%) GitHub
3 19 (43.18%) Azure
4 16 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (36.36%) GCP
5 12 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (20.45%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (18.18%) Amazon S3
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (11.36%) Stackdriver
9 5 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (9.09%) Apigee
10 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (9.09%) IaaS
11 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (6.82%) SaaS
12 2 (4.55%) Datadog
13 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (2.27%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.82%) DNS
3 2 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) DHCP
4 1 (2.27%) Firewall
4 1 (2.27%) Internet
4 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.09%) MySQL
5 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.27%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.27%) ArangoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.27%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (2.27%) Redis
6 1 (2.27%) Tableau
6 1 (2.27%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (38.64%) Jenkins
2 16 (36.36%) Git
3 10 (22.73%) GitLab
4 9 (20.45%) Artifactory
5 5 (11.36%) JIRA
6 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 4 (9.09%) Gradle
6 4 (9.09%) Maven
7 3 (6.82%) Subversion
8 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.55%) Mercurial
9 1 (2.27%) Ant
9 1 (2.27%) CMake
9 1 (2.27%) ERwin
9 1 (2.27%) Mocha
9 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.27%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.82%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.55%) Electronics
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Marketing
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Administrator
3 3 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Site Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Architect
4 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Lead
4 2 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) Node.js
2 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (6.82%) Kafka
4 3 (6.82%) YAML
5 2 (4.55%) OAuth
5 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.55%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.55%) OpenID
5 2 (4.55%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) RESTful
5 2 (4.55%) Swagger
6 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.27%) Bazel
6 1 (2.27%) Fastify
6 1 (2.27%) Jest
6 1 (2.27%) JSON
6 1 (2.27%) Middleware
6 1 (2.27%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) IVR
2 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Blog
3 2 (4.55%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.55%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Windows
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.64%) Unix
4 3 (6.82%) CentOS
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Debian
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 24 (54.55%) Configuration Management
2 22 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (47.73%) DevOps
4 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
5 16 (36.36%) Agile
6 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (18.18%) Migration
8 7 (15.91%) Kanban
8 7 (15.91%) Microservices
8 7 (15.91%) Scrum
9 6 (13.64%) SOA
10 5 (11.36%) High Availability
10 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (9.09%) Design Patterns
12 3 (6.82%) Computer Science
12 3 (6.82%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 31 (70.45%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) Bash
3 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.45%) Groovy
6 8 (18.18%) C++
6 8 (18.18%) Go
7 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
7 6 (13.64%) SQL
8 5 (11.36%) C#
9 4 (9.09%) Java
10 3 (6.82%) PHP
11 1 (2.27%) Perl
11 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.55%) CCNA
3 2 (4.55%) CCNP
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) RHCE
3 2 (4.55%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (47.73%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) KVM
3 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.27%) GPFS
4 1 (2.27%) iptables
4 1 (2.27%) Lustre
4 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.27%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (75.00%) Ansible
1 33 (75.00%) Terraform
2 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 11 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (18.18%) Grafana
5 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 4 (9.09%) Istio
7 3 (6.82%) Ambari
7 3 (6.82%) NetBackup
7 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (6.82%) ZABBIX
8 2 (4.55%) Salt
8 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
9 1 (2.27%) Icinga
9 1 (2.27%) Nagios
9 1 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Google
1 6 (13.64%) VMware
2 5 (11.36%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.09%) SnapLogic
4 3 (6.82%) Commvault
4 3 (6.82%) PagerDuty
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.55%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) New Relic
6 1 (2.27%) Rackspace
6 1 (2.27%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.27%) Tenable
6 1 (2.27%) Zend
6 1 (2.27%) Zoomdata