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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 298 297
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 42 81 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.96% 3.54% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 100
10th Percentile £424 £450 £406
25th Percentile £495 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.58% -7.83%
75th Percentile £653 £625 £681
90th Percentile £809 £750 £739
England median daily rate £525 £555 £560
% change year-on-year -5.36% -0.94% -6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 2,146 2,287 3,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.73% 14.51% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,512 2,367
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 £700
90th Percentile £720 £762 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 33
10th Percentile £21.64 £22.68 £23.34
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.30% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.71 £104.80 £87.31
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +4 8 £495 -6.82% 7
South London -2 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.14%) SAS
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) JBoss
4 1 (2.38%) Luigi
4 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 23 (54.76%) GitHub
3 20 (47.62%) Azure
4 17 (40.48%) GCP
5 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (30.95%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (11.90%) Stackdriver
10 4 (9.52%) Apigee
10 4 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (9.52%) SaaS
11 2 (4.76%) Datadog
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.38%) CloudBees
12 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.14%) HTTP
4 2 (4.76%) Firewall
4 2 (4.76%) Internet
4 2 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (2.38%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.38%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (2.38%) CrateDB
6 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.38%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Tableau
6 1 (2.38%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (45.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (38.10%) Git
3 10 (23.81%) Artifactory
3 10 (23.81%) GitLab
4 5 (11.90%) JIRA
5 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.52%) Gradle
5 4 (9.52%) Maven
6 3 (7.14%) Subversion
7 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.76%) Mercurial
8 1 (2.38%) Ant
8 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.38%) CMake
8 1 (2.38%) ERwin
8 1 (2.38%) Mocha
8 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.38%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.76%) Electronics
3 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.76%) Marketing
3 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Administrator
4 3 (7.14%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Lead
5 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Node.js
2 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (7.14%) YAML
5 2 (4.76%) Kafka
5 2 (4.76%) OAuth
5 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.76%) OpenID
5 2 (4.76%) REST
5 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 2 (4.76%) Swagger
6 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.38%) Bazel
6 1 (2.38%) Fastify
6 1 (2.38%) Jest
6 1 (2.38%) JSON
6 1 (2.38%) Middleware
6 1 (2.38%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) IVR
4 2 (4.76%) Blog
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Unix
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.14%) CentOS
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) Debian
5 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
1 23 (54.76%) Configuration Management
2 22 (52.38%) DevOps
3 21 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Microservices
7 8 (19.05%) Kanban
7 8 (19.05%) Migration
7 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (19.05%) Scrum
8 6 (14.29%) SOA
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (11.90%) High Availability
9 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (7.14%) Static Application Security Testing
11 3 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) PowerShell
3 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (23.81%) Groovy
5 9 (21.43%) Bash
5 9 (21.43%) Go
6 7 (16.67%) C++
6 7 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 6 (14.29%) SQL
8 5 (11.90%) C#
8 5 (11.90%) Java
9 3 (7.14%) PHP
10 1 (2.38%) Perl
10 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.76%) CCNA
2 2 (4.76%) CCNP
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.76%) RHCE
2 2 (4.76%) RHCSA
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) KVM
3 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) iptables
4 1 (2.38%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 32 (76.19%) Terraform
2 30 (71.43%) Ansible
3 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 12 (28.57%) Progress Chef
5 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (14.29%) Grafana
7 4 (9.52%) Istio
8 3 (7.14%) Ambari
8 3 (7.14%) NetBackup
8 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (7.14%) ZABBIX
9 2 (4.76%) vCenter Server
10 1 (2.38%) Icinga
10 1 (2.38%) Nagios
10 1 (2.38%) Podman
10 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Google
1 6 (14.29%) VMware
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) MuleSoft
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) SnapLogic
4 3 (7.14%) Commvault
5 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) New Relic
6 1 (2.38%) Rackspace
6 1 (2.38%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.38%) Tenable
6 1 (2.38%) Zend
6 1 (2.38%) Zoomdata