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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 298 291
Rank change year-on-year -72 -7 -21
Contract jobs citing Puppet 25 55 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 2.67% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 86
10th Percentile £474 £478 £403
25th Percentile £514 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £713
90th Percentile £734 £662 £763
England median daily rate £530 £575 £581
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.03% -0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +21.79% +20.00%

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 2,403 2,057 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.34% 15.23% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 1,374 1,731
10th Percentile £350 £366 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £637 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.72% +2.10% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.00 £40.31
% change year-on-year +104.81% -35.50% -16.02%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
South London -7 6 £530 -
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) IIS
1 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (40.00%) IaaS
4 9 (36.00%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (32.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (24.00%) Azure
7 5 (20.00%) GCP
7 5 (20.00%) GitHub
8 4 (16.00%) PaaS
9 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (12.00%) Datadog
9 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (8.00%) Serverless
10 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
11 1 (4.00%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) DHCP
2 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) SMTP
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) CMake
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Site Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) NetApp Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Build Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (4.00%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (16.00%) Clustering
3 4 (16.00%) PKI
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Grid Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Unix
6 1 (4.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (52.00%) Configuration Management
3 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (36.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Agile
6 8 (32.00%) DevOps
7 7 (28.00%) Analytics
8 6 (24.00%) Observability
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
11 3 (12.00%) Build Automation
11 3 (12.00%) Change Management
11 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
11 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 3 (12.00%) Mathematics
11 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
11 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (12.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) RHCE
4 1 (4.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) BitLocker
3 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.00%) GPFS
4 1 (4.00%) KVM
4 1 (4.00%) Lustre
4 1 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Ansible
2 14 (56.00%) Terraform
3 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (36.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (28.00%) Grafana
6 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
6 4 (16.00%) vMotion
7 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (4.00%) Ambari
8 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
8 1 (4.00%) Salt
8 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) PagerDuty
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Citrix
4 4 (16.00%) NetApp
5 2 (8.00%) New Relic
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) Commvault
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) SnapLogic