Puppet Contracts in the South West

Puppet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 142 118
Rank change year-on-year +65 -24 +18
Contract jobs citing Puppet 42 16 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.38% 0.49% 1.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.17% 3.66% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 9 30
10th Percentile £430 £525 £513
25th Percentile £563 £570 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £582 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.88% +7.53%
75th Percentile £628 £585 £675
90th Percentile £775 £688 £699
England median daily rate £575 £573 £600
% change year-on-year +0.44% -4.58% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -39.10% -

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 319 437 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.04% 13.26% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 340 406
10th Percentile £265 £215 £338
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £699 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £523 £575
% change year-on-year -1.91% -9.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 22
10th Percentile £16.80 - £53.75
25th Percentile £18.60 - £60.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.00 £77.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -48.55% +288.75%
75th Percentile £79.03 £74.22 £78.00
90th Percentile £80.89 £76.28 £89.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £52.93
% change year-on-year +33.33% -43.32% +146.16%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Gloucestershire +31 15 £615 +11.82% 9
Wiltshire +39 13 £575 -1.20% 2
Bristol +28 10 £445 - 4
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 7 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 15 (35.71%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (40.48%) DNS
1 17 (40.48%) TCP/IP
2 16 (38.10%) DHCP
3 15 (35.71%) HTTP
4 3 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (4.76%) Firewall
6 1 (2.38%) SSH
6 1 (2.38%) VPN
6 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Bitbucket
2 15 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (28.57%) Git
3 12 (28.57%) GitLab
4 7 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Administrator
8 1 (2.38%) Architect
8 1 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (2.38%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) REST
1 11 (26.19%) SOAP
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 39 (92.86%) Linux
2 29 (69.05%) Windows
3 24 (57.14%) Windows Server
4 16 (38.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Unix
6 1 (2.38%) CentOS
6 1 (2.38%) Solaris
6 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Service Management
2 23 (54.76%) Containerisation
3 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 14 (33.33%) DevOps
5 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (28.57%) Agile
6 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (26.19%) Deployment Automation
7 11 (26.19%) Reverse Engineering
7 11 (26.19%) Validation
8 10 (23.81%) NsoIT
8 10 (23.81%) System Testing
9 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (9.52%) ITIL
13 3 (7.14%) ITSM
13 3 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (88.10%) Python
2 28 (66.67%) Bash
3 26 (61.90%) PowerShell
4 18 (42.86%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (30.95%) DV Cleared
4 10 (23.81%) CCNP
4 10 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (23.81%) OCA
4 10 (23.81%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (23.81%) RHCA
4 10 (23.81%) RHCE
4 10 (23.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (54.76%) Docker
3 15 (35.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (80.95%) Ansible
2 20 (47.62%) Terraform
3 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
4 12 (28.57%) Progress Chef
5 10 (23.81%) vCenter Server
6 3 (7.14%) Automic
7 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.38%) OPNET
7 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (64.29%) VMware
2 17 (40.48%) Red Hat
3 11 (26.19%) Oracle
4 10 (23.81%) Cisco
5 8 (19.05%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.38%) Citrix
7 1 (2.38%) SAP
7 1 (2.38%) Splunk