Puppet Contracts in the Midlands

Puppet
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 107 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing Puppet 4 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% - 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.68% - 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.02%
75th Percentile - - £593
90th Percentile - - £657
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 238 277 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.43% 10.05% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 218 300
10th Percentile £200 £189 £231
25th Percentile £314 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £689 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile £12.18 £21.49 £17.72
25th Percentile £12.94 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.19 £25.77 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -37.16% +18.90% +31.33%
75th Percentile £17.89 £40.57 £40.25
90th Percentile £18.13 £55.00 £50.55
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the Midlands

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the Midlands

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
West Midlands - 2 - - 7
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Debian
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (50.00%) Sophos
1 2 (50.00%) VMware