Puppet Contracts in Reading

Puppet
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 56 90 77
Rank change year-on-year +34 -13 +15
Contract jobs citing Puppet 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.084% 0.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.35% 0.56% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £416 - £539
25th Percentile £450 £525 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -15.38% +52.94%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £688
90th Percentile £649 - £693
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +52.94%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 63 179 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 15.02% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 134 89
10th Percentile £409 £205 £425
25th Percentile £450 £213 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.95% +8.72%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £700
90th Percentile £686 £650 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £56.00
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +600.00%
75th Percentile - - £75.69
90th Percentile - - £79.10
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Reading

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in Reading

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in Reading

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware