Puppet Contract Job Trends in the North West

Puppet
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 116 122
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Puppet 2 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.093% 0.17% 0.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 1.54% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £292 - £495
25th Percentile £329 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -33.92% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £470 - £632
90th Percentile £511 - £670
England median daily rate £525 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -4.98% -7.92% +1.01%
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 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 319 260 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.82% 11.00% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 170 293
10th Percentile £267 £213 £313
25th Percentile £353 £356 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -9.27% -2.38%
75th Percentile £543 £576 £583
90th Percentile £650 £651 £663
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 47
10th Percentile £16.06 £27.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% - +112.03%
75th Percentile £63.66 £48.11 £47.35
90th Percentile £79.33 £76.38 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.63% -23.81% +119.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 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 16 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
Manchester -2 1 £525 -12.50% 2
Cheshire - 1 £268 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Monorepo
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central