Puppet Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Puppet
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 82 101
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Puppet 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.098% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 2.82% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile £513 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £669
90th Percentile - - £695
North West median daily rate £397 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -33.92% +7.14% +12.00%

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 151 142 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.85% 12.05% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 90 204
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.13% -5.68%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £465 £513
% change year-on-year -3.23% -9.27% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £19.32 £32.85 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.88 £18.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +137.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84.50 £76.38 £55.31
90th Percentile £90.80 £92.95 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +112.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Puppet

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform