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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 304 298
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 43 74 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.47% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.93% 3.20% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 103
10th Percentile £404 £450 £405
25th Percentile £495 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -3.83% -9.62%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £688
90th Percentile £684 £656 £763
England median daily rate £525 £570 £560
% change year-on-year -7.89% +1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.85% -

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 2,230 2,310 2,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.96% 14.62% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 1,508 2,212
10th Percentile £351 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £456 £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 £723 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 34
10th Percentile £22.00 £23.07 £21.48
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.30% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £102.40 £82.38
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £47.01
% change year-on-year -4.00% -20.22% +82.83%

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 24 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 24 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 +1 6 £495 -7.91%
South London -1 5 £530 - 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 (9.30%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.98%) SAS
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.33%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Luigi
4 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) GitHub
3 17 (39.53%) Azure
4 16 (37.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (30.23%) GCP
6 11 (25.58%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
7 10 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (13.95%) IaaS
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (9.30%) Stackdriver
12 3 (6.98%) Apigee
12 3 (6.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (4.65%) Datadog
14 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (2.33%) CloudBees
14 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) Internet
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.30%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.30%) MySQL
5 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.33%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.33%) ArangoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
6 1 (2.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) Jenkins
2 15 (34.88%) Git
3 9 (20.93%) GitLab
4 7 (16.28%) Artifactory
5 5 (11.63%) JIRA
6 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (6.98%) Gradle
7 3 (6.98%) Maven
7 3 (6.98%) Subversion
8 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.65%) Mercurial
9 1 (2.33%) Ant
9 1 (2.33%) CMake
9 1 (2.33%) ERwin
9 1 (2.33%) Mocha
9 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Electronics
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
1 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Administrator
3 3 (6.98%) Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
3 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Lead
4 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Node.js
2 5 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.30%) Kafka
4 3 (6.98%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.98%) YAML
5 2 (4.65%) OAuth
5 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.65%) OpenID
5 2 (4.65%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 2 (4.65%) Swagger
6 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.33%) Bazel
6 1 (2.33%) Fastify
6 1 (2.33%) Jest
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
6 1 (2.33%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Blog
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.65%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.65%) IVR
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.95%) Unix
4 3 (6.98%) CentOS
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) Debian
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
1 24 (55.81%) Configuration Management
2 22 (51.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (46.51%) DevOps
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
5 16 (37.21%) Agile
6 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (18.60%) Migration
8 7 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (11.63%) High Availability
10 5 (11.63%) Kanban
10 5 (11.63%) Scrum
10 5 (11.63%) SOA
11 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
11 4 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (9.30%) Mathematics
11 4 (9.30%) Microservices
12 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Python
2 15 (34.88%) Bash
3 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
4 8 (18.60%) C++
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (16.28%) Groovy
6 6 (13.95%) Go
6 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
6 6 (13.95%) SQL
7 5 (11.63%) C#
8 4 (9.30%) Java
9 3 (6.98%) PHP
10 1 (2.33%) Perl
10 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
1 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.65%) CCNA
3 2 (4.65%) CCNP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.65%) RHCE
3 2 (4.65%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (51.16%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) KVM
3 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.33%) GPFS
4 1 (2.33%) iptables
4 1 (2.33%) Lustre
4 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 32 (74.42%) Ansible
1 32 (74.42%) Terraform
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) Progress Chef
4 10 (23.26%) Grafana
5 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.98%) Ambari
6 3 (6.98%) Istio
6 3 (6.98%) NetBackup
6 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
7 2 (4.65%) Salt
7 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.33%) Icinga
8 1 (2.33%) Nagios
8 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) VMware
2 5 (11.63%) Google
2 5 (11.63%) PagerDuty
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.30%) SnapLogic
3 4 (9.30%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) Commvault
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Informatica
6 1 (2.33%) New Relic
6 1 (2.33%) Rackspace
6 1 (2.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.33%) Tenable
6 1 (2.33%) Zend
6 1 (2.33%) Zoomdata