Puppet Contracts in the North West

Puppet
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 128 132
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Puppet 8 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.33% 0.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.61% 3.07% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 22
10th Percentile £295 £566 £335
25th Percentile £335 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £582 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.93% -10.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £451 - -
90th Percentile £480 £583 £686
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +18 3 £500 - 12
Cheshire -5 2 £335 -42.44%
Cumbria - 2 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Ajax
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) AIX
2 2 (25.00%) CentOS
2 2 (25.00%) HPUX
2 2 (25.00%) Solaris
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) KVM
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Progress Chef
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Graylog
4 2 (25.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (12.50%) Packer
5 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle