Puppet Contracts in the North of England

Puppet
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 146 145 182
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 -41
Contract jobs citing Puppet 20 40 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.84% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.27% 7.43% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 33
10th Percentile £329 £456 £363
25th Percentile £355 £507 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -4.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £430 £582 £650
90th Percentile £481 £625 £685
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the North of England 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
Yorkshire -11 12 £388 -27.14% 7
North West +16 8 £402 -30.93% 12
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) NuGet
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) SAN
2 3 (15.00%) NAS
3 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (10.00%) SSH
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) Selenium
3 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.00%) Maven
3 3 (15.00%) Vagrant
3 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (10.00%) Gradle
4 2 (10.00%) HP UFT
4 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (10.00%) JMeter
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) NetBeans
4 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.00%) Subversion
4 2 (10.00%) TestNG
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) NetBackup Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (10.00%) J2EE
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) pytest
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (10.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) Ajax
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) HTML5
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (15.00%) AIX
3 3 (15.00%) Solaris
4 2 (10.00%) CentOS
4 2 (10.00%) HPUX
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (10.00%) VMS
5 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) API Development
7 2 (10.00%) BDD
7 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Bash
3 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
5 3 (15.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) Ruby
5 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Korn
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (15.00%) VirtualBox
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.00%) KVM
4 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Ansible
2 11 (55.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (30.00%) Terraform
4 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
6 2 (10.00%) Graylog
6 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
6 2 (10.00%) vRealize
6 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (5.00%) Nagios
7 1 (5.00%) Packer
7 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 3 (15.00%) Veritas
4 2 (10.00%) 3PAR
4 2 (10.00%) Brocade
4 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Commvault
4 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow