Puppet Contracts in Scotland

Puppet
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Puppet 6 5 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.23% 1.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.55% 1.80% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £546 £530 £456
25th Percentile £548 £556 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £634
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -5.36% +15.27%
75th Percentile £649 £628 £680
90th Percentile £681 £644 £723
UK median daily rate £575 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £61.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +55.10% -16.10% +32.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Scotland

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in Scotland

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in Scotland

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +5 5 £569 -3.60% 1
Edinburgh +5 1 - - 1
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) CyberArk Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Unix
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) AIX
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (16.67%) CentOS
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Microservices
1 2 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) OWASP
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) Packer
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat