Puppet Contracts in the Thames Valley

Puppet
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 93 142 136
Rank change year-on-year +49 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing Puppet 9 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.11% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.92% 0.93% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £421 £535 £506
25th Percentile £463 £549 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% -4.80% +47.06%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £681
90th Percentile £634 £652 £688
South East median daily rate £575 £584 £625
% change year-on-year -1.50% -6.60% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +37 7 £600 +9.09% 6
Oxfordshire +6 2 £488 - 3
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Unix DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) AIX
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) HPUX
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Bicep
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Korn
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
1 6 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) HP