Puppet Contracts in the South East

Puppet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 196 195
Rank change year-on-year +56 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Puppet 19 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.16% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.22% 1.26% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 17
10th Percentile £470 £512 £506
25th Percentile £516 £525 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £584 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -6.60% +7.53%
75th Percentile £597 £664 £675
90th Percentile £600 £679 £688
England median daily rate £575 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -1.20% -6.88% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £95.00 £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.10% +41.82%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
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 South East

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South East 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
Thames Valley +49 9 £500 -15.97% 6
Hampshire +29 9 £575 -1.50% 5
Berkshire +37 7 £600 +9.09% 4
Oxfordshire +6 2 £488 - 2
Surrey - 1 - - 4
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) IaaS
2 10 (52.63%) PaaS
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
3 8 (42.11%) OpenShift
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) DHCP
2 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) SMTP
2 8 (42.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (42.11%) Big Data
1 8 (42.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Support Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Administrator
6 2 (10.53%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) DBA
7 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) Unix Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Clustering
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
1 8 (42.11%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 12 (63.16%) Windows
3 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) AIX
4 4 (21.05%) Unix
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (10.53%) CentOS
6 2 (10.53%) HPUX
6 2 (10.53%) Solaris
6 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
3 8 (42.11%) Software Deployment
4 7 (36.84%) Configuration Management
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Information Security
7 2 (10.53%) Agile
7 2 (10.53%) Coaching
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) High Availability
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) PowerShell
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) Bicep
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) Korn
6 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 10 (52.63%) Hyper-V
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (42.11%) BitLocker
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (42.11%) Terminal Services
3 8 (42.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Ansible
2 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (42.11%) Nagios
3 8 (42.11%) vCenter Server
3 8 (42.11%) vMotion
4 7 (36.84%) Progress Chef
5 5 (26.32%) Terraform
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (10.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 9 (47.37%) HP
4 8 (42.11%) Citrix
4 8 (42.11%) Google
4 8 (42.11%) Symantec
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty