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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 291 265
Rank change year-on-year -10 -26 -17
Contract jobs citing Puppet 75 78 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.44% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.10% 3.42% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 108
10th Percentile £358 £393 £450
25th Percentile £439 £465 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +0.22% +3.41%
75th Percentile £619 £622 £650
90th Percentile £653 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £587
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.34% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £57.96
25th Percentile - £15.50 £70.50
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -79.49% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 2,417 2,279 2,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.62% 12.72% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,588 1,988
10th Percentile £235 £248 £275
25th Percentile £377 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 115
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.09 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%
75th Percentile £64.50 £54.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.31 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -13 28 £463 -25.64% 2
Yorkshire -12 26 £463 -25.64%
South West +21 16 £628 +10.09% 5
West Midlands -10 15 £550 -5.50% 3
Midlands -16 15 £550 -5.50% 9
South East +8 11 £575 +0.44% 8
East of England - 6 £366 - 1
North West -17 2 £397 -33.92% 2
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (13.33%) Apache
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.33%) JBoss
4 4 (5.33%) OpenStack
4 4 (5.33%) WebLogic
5 3 (4.00%) Confluence
6 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.33%) CICS
7 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (54.67%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) GCP
3 15 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (17.33%) Azure
5 12 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 11 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (12.00%) PaaS
9 8 (10.67%) IaaS
10 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.67%) Serverless
12 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.33%) Datadog
13 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
13 3 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (4.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (44.00%) Firewall
2 21 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 18 (24.00%) DNS
4 12 (16.00%) VPN
5 10 (13.33%) DHCP
6 8 (10.67%) SMTP
7 2 (2.67%) Network Security
7 2 (2.67%) SSL
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.33%) FCoE
8 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.33%) LAN
8 1 (1.33%) Multicast
8 1 (1.33%) NAS
8 1 (1.33%) SAN
8 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.33%) VSAN
8 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.67%) Big Data
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 5 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 5 (6.67%) HBase
3 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
4 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) Jenkins
2 28 (37.33%) Git
3 24 (32.00%) GitLab
4 19 (25.33%) Postman
5 9 (12.00%) Selenium
6 8 (10.67%) JIRA
6 8 (10.67%) JUnit
7 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
8 5 (6.67%) IntelliJ
9 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
9 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (5.33%) Eclipse
9 4 (5.33%) Gradle
9 4 (5.33%) Maven
9 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
10 3 (4.00%) CircleCI
10 3 (4.00%) Snyk
10 3 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 19 (25.33%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.00%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Technical Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Windows Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (10.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Support Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Hadoop Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.00%) REST
3 7 (9.33%) JSON
4 6 (8.00%) SOAP
5 5 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 5 (6.67%) J2EE
5 5 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (6.67%) Spring
6 4 (5.33%) EJB
6 4 (5.33%) HTML
6 4 (5.33%) HTML5
6 4 (5.33%) J2SE
6 4 (5.33%) Play Framework
6 4 (5.33%) XML
6 4 (5.33%) YAML
7 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.33%) Kafka
7 1 (1.33%) Node.js
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.00%) Clustering
2 9 (12.00%) PKI
3 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (54.67%) Linux
2 23 (30.67%) Windows
3 18 (24.00%) Unix
4 9 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.67%) CentOS
7 4 (5.33%) Solaris
8 3 (4.00%) AIX
8 3 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.33%) MVS
9 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.33%) SUSE
9 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.00%) DevOps
2 38 (50.67%) Configuration Management
3 34 (45.33%) CI/CD
4 27 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (33.33%) Agile
6 23 (30.67%) Containerisation
7 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.00%) Migration
9 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (17.33%) Data Management
11 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
14 8 (10.67%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (10.67%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
14 8 (10.67%) Software Deployment
14 8 (10.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) Bash
3 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 13 (17.33%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.33%) Java
5 6 (8.00%) SQL
6 5 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (2.67%) Go
7 2 (2.67%) Perl
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.33%) DV Cleared
3 15 (20.00%) Degree
4 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.00%) RHCE
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.67%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CCNP
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) OCA
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.33%) RHCA
8 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 32 (42.67%) Docker
2 30 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.67%) Hyper-V
4 10 (13.33%) Active Directory
5 9 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (10.67%) BitLocker
6 8 (10.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (10.67%) Terminal Services
6 8 (10.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (6.67%) HDFS
8 3 (4.00%) KVM
9 1 (1.33%) NFS
9 1 (1.33%) SRDF
9 1 (1.33%) VirtualBox
9 1 (1.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (82.67%) Ansible
2 28 (37.33%) Kubernetes
2 28 (37.33%) Terraform
3 17 (22.67%) Progress Chef
4 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 9 (12.00%) vCenter Server
6 8 (10.67%) Grafana
6 8 (10.67%) Nagios
6 8 (10.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (10.67%) vMotion
7 7 (9.33%) SCCM
8 5 (6.67%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (6.67%) Salt
9 3 (4.00%) Kibana
9 3 (4.00%) Podman
10 2 (2.67%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.33%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 32 (42.67%) VMware
2 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
3 16 (21.33%) MuleSoft
4 12 (16.00%) Splunk
5 10 (13.33%) Google
6 9 (12.00%) Citrix
6 9 (12.00%) HP
7 8 (10.67%) Symantec
8 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle
9 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.33%) webMethods
10 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.67%) Cisco
10 2 (2.67%) IBM
11 1 (1.33%) Commvault
11 1 (1.33%) Dell
11 1 (1.33%) EMC
11 1 (1.33%) NetApp
11 1 (1.33%) Veritas