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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 282 273
Rank change year-on-year -100 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Puppet 35 71 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.56% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.41% 3.53% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 94
10th Percentile £471 £409 £381
25th Percentile £513 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £689
90th Percentile £730 £676 £763
England median daily rate £530 £565 £582
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.92% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -39.10%

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 2,487 2,009 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 15.88% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 1,386 1,595
10th Percentile £350 £368 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 42
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.59 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £63.25 £66.55
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -51.51%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -11 5 £530 -
Central London -9 2 - - 1
East London - 1 £432 -
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 (2.86%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.86%) SAS
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) IaaS
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (28.57%) Azure
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (25.71%) GitHub
6 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (20.00%) PaaS
8 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) GCP
8 5 (14.29%) Serverless
9 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) Firewall
2 9 (25.71%) VPN
3 7 (20.00%) DHCP
3 7 (20.00%) DNS
3 7 (20.00%) SMTP
4 3 (8.57%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) GitLab
2 9 (25.71%) Git
3 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (14.29%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.71%) JIRA
6 1 (2.86%) CMake
6 1 (2.86%) Gradle
6 1 (2.86%) Introscope
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Police
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (22.86%) Site Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Build Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) ARM Templates
1 4 (11.43%) Kafka
1 4 (11.43%) YAML
2 3 (8.57%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) Bazel
4 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Storage
1 8 (22.86%) PKI
2 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.00%) Clustering
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.86%) PMI
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Windows
3 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
4 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.57%) Unix
7 1 (2.86%) AIX
7 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
1 22 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (51.43%) Containerisation
3 17 (48.57%) DevOps
4 16 (45.71%) Configuration Management
5 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (22.86%) Agile
7 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (20.00%) Observability
8 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) API Management
9 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.43%) Microservices
10 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Python
2 16 (45.71%) Bash
3 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) Bicep
5 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) SQL
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) Jython
7 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (8.57%) Degree
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (80.00%) Docker
2 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (20.00%) BitLocker
3 7 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) GPFS
4 1 (2.86%) Lustre
4 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (85.71%) Ansible
2 22 (62.86%) Kubernetes
2 22 (62.86%) Terraform
3 12 (34.29%) Grafana
3 12 (34.29%) Progress Chef
4 8 (22.86%) Prometheus
5 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
5 7 (20.00%) vMotion
6 4 (11.43%) Salt
7 1 (2.86%) CA Wily
7 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Citrix
2 7 (20.00%) NetApp
2 7 (20.00%) VMware
3 6 (17.14%) PagerDuty
4 4 (11.43%) Databricks
5 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.71%) New Relic
7 1 (2.86%) Commvault
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic