Puppet Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 287 260
Rank change year-on-year -26 -27 -13
Contract jobs citing Puppet 75 81 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.48% 0.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.85% 3.50% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 115
10th Percentile £384 £358 £433
25th Percentile £450 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £585 £625
90th Percentile £650 £631 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £74.04
25th Percentile - £15.50 -
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -79.49% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - £78.35
UK median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -79.49% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,636 2,316 2,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.16% 13.69% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 1,509 2,028
10th Percentile £235 £250 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.68% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £643 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 38 121
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +109.91%
75th Percentile £66.63 £52.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £49.73
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.94% +98.92%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Puppet job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
North of England -26 30 £500 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire -12 29 £488 -18.38% 4
West Midlands -16 21 £550 -5.50% 2
Midlands -23 21 £550 -5.50% 3
South West +1 10 £625 +9.65% 9
East of England - 10 £529 - 1
South East -5 5 £461 -16.56% 24
North West -29 1 £525 -12.50% 2
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (16.00%) Apache
2 6 (8.00%) Confluence
2 6 (8.00%) JBoss
2 6 (8.00%) OpenStack
2 6 (8.00%) WebLogic
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.33%) CICS
5 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Weka
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) AWS
2 20 (26.67%) GitHub
3 14 (18.67%) Azure
4 13 (17.33%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (17.33%) GCP
5 12 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.00%) Serverless
10 5 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.67%) Datadog
10 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.33%) Azure AKS
11 4 (5.33%) Cohesity
11 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (5.33%) npm
11 4 (5.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (30.67%) Firewall
2 21 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (13.33%) DNS
4 4 (5.33%) VPN
5 2 (2.67%) DHCP
5 2 (2.67%) Network Security
5 2 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.33%) FCoE
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.33%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.33%) LAN
6 1 (1.33%) Multicast
6 1 (1.33%) NAS
6 1 (1.33%) SAN
6 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 5 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 5 (6.67%) HBase
3 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.33%) MySQL
3 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Redis
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (41.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (37.33%) Git
3 23 (30.67%) GitLab
4 20 (26.67%) Postman
5 11 (14.67%) JIRA
5 11 (14.67%) Selenium
6 10 (13.33%) JUnit
7 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket
7 6 (8.00%) Eclipse
7 6 (8.00%) IntelliJ
7 6 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
8 5 (6.67%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.67%) Gradle
8 5 (6.67%) Maven
8 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
9 4 (5.33%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.33%) Snyk
9 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
9 4 (5.33%) webpack
General
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.00%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Technical Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Hadoop Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (16.00%) REST
3 10 (13.33%) JSON
4 6 (8.00%) EJB
4 6 (8.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (8.00%) HTML
4 6 (8.00%) HTML5
4 6 (8.00%) J2EE
4 6 (8.00%) J2SE
4 6 (8.00%) Play Framework
4 6 (8.00%) SOAP
4 6 (8.00%) Spring
4 6 (8.00%) XML
5 5 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (6.67%) YAML
6 2 (2.67%) LDAP
6 2 (2.67%) RESTful
7 1 (1.33%) Middleware
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth
7 1 (1.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (46.67%) Linux
2 23 (30.67%) Unix
3 14 (18.67%) Windows
4 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) CentOS
5 4 (5.33%) Solaris
6 3 (4.00%) AIX
6 3 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.33%) MVS
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.33%) SUSE
8 1 (1.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (80.00%) DevOps
2 43 (57.33%) Configuration Management
3 38 (50.67%) CI/CD
4 31 (41.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (37.33%) Containerisation
6 24 (32.00%) Agile
7 18 (24.00%) Migration
7 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.33%) Data Management
10 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.00%) Scrum
10 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.67%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (13.33%) Computer Science
12 10 (13.33%) Incident Response
12 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (13.33%) Observability
12 10 (13.33%) Task Automation
13 9 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 53 (70.67%) Python
2 23 (30.67%) Bash
3 13 (17.33%) Shell Script
4 9 (12.00%) Java
4 9 (12.00%) SQL
5 7 (9.33%) Scala
6 3 (4.00%) Perl
7 2 (2.67%) Go
7 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) Groovy
8 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Degree
3 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.67%) RHCE
6 2 (2.67%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.67%) NIST
2 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 33 (44.00%) Docker
2 20 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (6.67%) HDFS
5 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.00%) GPFS
5 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.00%) KVM
5 3 (4.00%) Lustre
5 3 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.33%) NFS
6 1 (1.33%) SRDF
6 1 (1.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (82.67%) Ansible
2 31 (41.33%) Terraform
3 24 (32.00%) Kubernetes
4 18 (24.00%) Progress Chef
5 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 9 (12.00%) Grafana
6 9 (12.00%) Prometheus
7 8 (10.67%) Salt
8 7 (9.33%) SCCM
9 6 (8.00%) Kibana
10 5 (6.67%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (5.33%) NetBackup
11 4 (5.33%) Podman
12 2 (2.67%) Kustomize
13 1 (1.33%) Consul
13 1 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (1.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) VMware
2 16 (21.33%) MuleSoft
3 15 (20.00%) Splunk
4 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
5 10 (13.33%) Red Hat
6 6 (8.00%) webMethods
7 4 (5.33%) Commvault
7 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle
9 2 (2.67%) Google
9 2 (2.67%) IBM
10 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.33%) Cisco
10 1 (1.33%) Dell
10 1 (1.33%) EMC
10 1 (1.33%) HP
10 1 (1.33%) NetApp
10 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
10 1 (1.33%) Vertica