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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 290 292
Rank change year-on-year -96 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing Puppet 59 79 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.66% 4.38% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 59 71
10th Percentile £396 £411 £407
25th Percentile £425 £477 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £631
90th Percentile £725 £728 £763
England median daily rate £575 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% 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 2,218 1,802 1,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.06% 13.37% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 1,179 1,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £444 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.21% -3.11% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 27
10th Percentile £31.18 £23.60 £20.30
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.23 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.75 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +109.17% +24.07% -61.31%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +32.29% +36.00% -24.59%

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 August 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 24 August 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
Central London -23 9 £625 +19.05% 1
East London - 1 £432 - 1
South London - 1 £535 -
West London - 1 - - 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 7 (11.86%) JBoss
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.08%) Apache
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub
4 10 (16.95%) GCP
4 10 (16.95%) IaaS
5 9 (15.25%) Datadog
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (13.56%) Serverless
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (10.17%) PaaS
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
10 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) Firewall
2 12 (20.34%) DNS
3 10 (16.95%) VPN
4 7 (11.86%) DHCP
4 7 (11.86%) Kerberos
5 6 (10.17%) SMTP
6 5 (8.47%) SSL
7 4 (6.78%) WAN
8 2 (3.39%) Network Security
8 2 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (1.69%) BGP
9 1 (1.69%) IPv4
9 1 (1.69%) IPv6
9 1 (1.69%) MPLS
9 1 (1.69%) NAS
9 1 (1.69%) SAN
9 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Big Data
2 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (13.56%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.78%) MySQL
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (38.98%) Git
2 20 (33.90%) GitLab
3 18 (30.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.47%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) Subversion
6 1 (1.69%) Introscope
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Publishing
6 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Military
6 2 (3.39%) Police
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (27.12%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Administrator
4 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (6.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (6.78%) Network Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (49.15%) Terraform
2 7 (11.86%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.17%) Kafka
3 6 (10.17%) YAML
4 4 (6.78%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.08%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.39%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.69%) boto
7 1 (1.69%) Django
7 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.69%) Middleware
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Clustering
2 10 (16.95%) PKI
3 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.47%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.69%) PMI
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (72.88%) Linux
2 26 (44.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (25.42%) Windows
4 9 (15.25%) Unix
5 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
6 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.39%) CentOS
10 1 (1.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) DevOps
2 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
2 32 (54.24%) Configuration Management
3 27 (45.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (33.90%) Containerisation
5 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Test Automation
7 10 (16.95%) Agile
8 9 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (15.25%) Observability
9 8 (13.56%) AI
9 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (13.56%) ITIL
9 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
10 7 (11.86%) Business Continuity
10 7 (11.86%) High Availability
10 7 (11.86%) Load Balancing
10 7 (11.86%) Microservices
10 7 (11.86%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 43 (72.88%) Python
2 24 (40.68%) Bash
3 22 (37.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.86%) C++
5 6 (10.17%) C
5 6 (10.17%) Java
6 5 (8.47%) Perl
7 4 (6.78%) Bicep
8 3 (5.08%) SQL
9 2 (3.39%) Scala
9 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.69%) C#
10 1 (1.69%) Go
10 1 (1.69%) Groovy
10 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.69%) Jython
10 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (57.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) DV Cleared
4 8 (13.56%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.17%) Degree
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) CISSP
7 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.39%) SSCP
8 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
3 2 (3.39%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.39%) SOC 1
3 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (45.76%) Docker
2 17 (28.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
4 9 (15.25%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.17%) BitLocker
5 6 (10.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.08%) Terminal Services
7 2 (3.39%) HDFS
8 1 (1.69%) NFS
8 1 (1.69%) Samba
8 1 (1.69%) Squid
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (71.19%) Ansible
2 32 (54.24%) Kubernetes
3 19 (32.20%) Progress Chef
4 18 (30.51%) Prometheus
5 17 (28.81%) Grafana
6 9 (15.25%) vCenter Server
7 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (10.17%) vMotion
9 5 (8.47%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (6.78%) Nagios
10 4 (6.78%) Salt
11 3 (5.08%) Packer
11 3 (5.08%) systemd
11 3 (5.08%) yum
12 2 (3.39%) Control-M
12 2 (3.39%) Nexpose
13 1 (1.69%) CA Wily
13 1 (1.69%) Check_MK
13 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
13 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) VMware
2 18 (30.51%) Red Hat
3 15 (25.42%) Microsoft
4 9 (15.25%) SaltStack
5 8 (13.56%) Google
6 7 (11.86%) Cisco
7 6 (10.17%) Citrix
7 6 (10.17%) Databricks
8 5 (8.47%) NetApp
9 3 (5.08%) HP
9 3 (5.08%) PagerDuty
9 3 (5.08%) Symantec
10 2 (3.39%) Cloudera
10 2 (3.39%) EMC
10 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.39%) Informatica
10 2 (3.39%) Oracle
10 2 (3.39%) Talend
10 2 (3.39%) Tenable
11 1 (1.69%) Arista