Puppet Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Puppet
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 137 164
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing Puppet 27 30 35
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.68% 0.74% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.55% 5.37% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 25
10th Percentile £358 £463 £475
25th Percentile £400 £553 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £622 £560
Median % change year-on-year -23.63% +11.07% +8.74%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £614
90th Percentile £605 £645 £670
England median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.42% -2.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - - £74.70
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £78.29
90th Percentile - - £78.82
England median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -79.49% -

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 760 559 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.05% 13.71% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 345 515
10th Percentile £250 £255 £313
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -3.80% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £593
90th Percentile £629 £645 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 48
10th Percentile £15.50 £28.85 £18.28
25th Percentile £16.91 - £40.37
Median hourly rate £20.65 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -55.28% - +112.03%
75th Percentile £63.49 £48.75 £47.11
90th Percentile £85.55 £90.80 £75.46
England median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.81% +119.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Puppet

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -10 26 £463 -25.64% 3
North West -14 1 £525 -12.50%
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 3 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) CICS
3 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
1 5 (18.52%) Serverless
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (14.81%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
2 18 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 2 (7.41%) SSL
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) FCoE
4 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) Multicast
4 1 (3.70%) NAS
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 3 (11.11%) HBase
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 16 (59.26%) Git
2 16 (59.26%) Postman
3 4 (14.81%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.70%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Senior
2 11 (40.74%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.70%) LDAP
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 11 (40.74%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Solaris
4 4 (14.81%) Unix
5 3 (11.11%) AIX
5 3 (11.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (3.70%) CentOS
6 1 (3.70%) MVS
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.70%) SUSE
6 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Configuration Management
2 20 (74.07%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Agile
4 13 (48.15%) Data Management
5 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 7 (25.93%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (22.22%) Problem Management
8 5 (18.52%) Migration
9 4 (14.81%) Analytics
9 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (11.11%) B2B
10 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (11.11%) Data Analytics
10 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
10 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (11.11%) Data Security
11 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2 (7.41%) Network Load Balancing
11 2 (7.41%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
1 2 (7.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (29.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (18.52%) Docker
4 3 (11.11%) HDFS
5 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) KVM
5 1 (3.70%) NFS
5 1 (3.70%) SRDF
5 1 (3.70%) VirtualBox
5 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (96.30%) Ansible
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (25.93%) SCCM
4 6 (22.22%) Terraform
5 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
6 3 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (7.41%) Grafana
7 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
7 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) VMware
2 16 (59.26%) MuleSoft
3 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.11%) Splunk
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco
7 1 (3.70%) Commvault
7 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.70%) EMC
7 1 (3.70%) F5
7 1 (3.70%) Google
7 1 (3.70%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (3.70%) NetApp
7 1 (3.70%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Veritas