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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 248 326
Rank change year-on-year -130 +78 -44
Contract jobs citing Puppet 64 89 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.70% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.05% 4.72% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 73 47
10th Percentile £465 £351 £460
25th Percentile £500 £432 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.95% -9.76%
75th Percentile £569 £623 £635
90th Percentile £600 £691 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £573 £582
% change year-on-year -7.42% -1.63% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £95.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.74% +100.00% -37.09%

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 3,116 1,886 2,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.86% 14.75% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 1,321 1,692
10th Percentile £299 £235 £210
25th Percentile £404 £391 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £660 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 76
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £38.40 £19.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -22.63% -23.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.90 £79.55 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%

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 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 2026. 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 -60 20 £500 +28.53% 8
Yorkshire -50 19 £500 +28.87% 2
Midlands -57 17 £550 +68.71% 3
West Midlands -45 13 £575 - 3
South East -55 12 £650 +13.04% 6
South West -68 7 £553 -7.92% 12
East Midlands -27 4 £525 +61.04%
Wales - 4 £465 - 4
East of England -36 3 - - 3
Scotland -3 1 - - 2
North West -49 1 £300 -25.37% 5
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 13 (20.31%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.56%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) AWS
2 21 (32.81%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) GitHub
4 9 (14.06%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (14.06%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (10.94%) GCP
6 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 6 (9.38%) CloudBees
6 6 (9.38%) Serverless
7 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.69%) Datadog
10 2 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (1.56%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.56%) Internet
4 1 (1.56%) MQTT
4 1 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.13%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.56%) Git
3 14 (21.88%) JIRA
4 13 (20.31%) GitLab
5 8 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 6 (9.38%) Artifactory
7 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (3.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.13%) Maven
9 1 (1.56%) Ant
9 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.56%) Gradle
9 1 (1.56%) JUnit
9 1 (1.56%) Postman
9 1 (1.56%) Selenium
9 1 (1.56%) Snyk
9 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Site Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Senior
5 8 (12.50%) Lead
5 8 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Consultant
10 3 (4.69%) DevOps Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.69%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (17.19%) YAML
3 6 (9.38%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) Loki
5 3 (4.69%) ADO
5 3 (4.69%) JSON
6 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (3.13%) Node.js
6 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.56%) gRPC
7 1 (1.56%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.56%) Middleware
7 1 (1.56%) SOAP
7 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) CUDA
3 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (78.13%) Linux
2 13 (20.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (20.31%) Unix
3 9 (14.06%) CentOS
3 9 (14.06%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.38%) Windows
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (70.31%) DevOps
2 42 (65.63%) CI/CD
3 31 (48.44%) Containerisation
4 28 (43.75%) Configuration Management
5 24 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (35.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (28.13%) Agile
8 18 (28.13%) Observability
9 15 (23.44%) Incident Response
9 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
10 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 10 (15.63%) Migration
11 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
12 9 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (14.06%) RBAC
12 9 (14.06%) Validation
13 8 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 49 (76.56%) Python
2 36 (56.25%) Bash
3 9 (14.06%) Java
3 9 (14.06%) Perl
3 9 (14.06%) Ruby
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) Go
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.69%) SQL
7 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) Scala
7 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (17.19%) RHCE
5 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
6 8 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.69%) CCNP
7 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.69%) OCA
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (4.69%) RHCA
7 3 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.13%) SRDF
6 1 (1.56%) GPFS
6 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.56%) Lustre
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (98.44%) Ansible
2 33 (51.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (39.06%) Terraform
4 17 (26.56%) Grafana
4 17 (26.56%) Progress Chef
5 15 (23.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (14.06%) Kibana
7 6 (9.38%) NetBackup
8 4 (6.25%) Istio
8 4 (6.25%) Podman
9 3 (4.69%) Argo
9 3 (4.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (3.13%) Salt
11 1 (1.56%) Consul
11 1 (1.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Red Hat
2 13 (20.31%) Splunk
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Veritas
4 6 (9.38%) VMware
5 5 (7.81%) Commvault
6 4 (6.25%) Broadcom
6 4 (6.25%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.69%) Dell
8 2 (3.13%) Cisco
8 2 (3.13%) HP
8 2 (3.13%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.13%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.56%) F5
9 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.56%) Intel
9 1 (1.56%) Tenable