Puppet Contracts in Manchester

Puppet
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 94 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Puppet 3 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.13% 0.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.04% 1.20% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £548
25th Percentile - - £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - £688
North West median daily rate £402 £582 £650
% change year-on-year -30.93% -10.46% +6.12%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 167 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.87% 11.01% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 245
10th Percentile £225 £323 £376
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £55.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £20.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +143.90% +64.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £102.40 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Manchester

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in Manchester

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Graylog
2 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle