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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 281 263
Rank change year-on-year -36 -18 -17
Contract jobs citing Puppet 75 83 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.50% 0.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.74% 3.63% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 112
10th Percentile £400 £359 £424
25th Percentile £449 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £559
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -8.28% +1.59%
75th Percentile £622 £589 £621
90th Percentile £650 £627 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.23% -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 2,734 2,284 2,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 13.73% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,869 1,455 1,970
10th Percentile £255 £250 £259
25th Percentile £400 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £612
90th Percentile £648 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 40 121
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.42 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -29.62% +100.78%
75th Percentile £66.50 £50.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -36.59% +99.34%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -31 29 £500 -15.43% 11
Yorkshire -25 28 £488 -16.31% 1
West Midlands -18 22 £495 -14.06% 5
Midlands -28 22 £495 -14.06% 7
South West -2 11 £613 +6.34% 10
East of England - 8 £575 - 1
South East -17 6 £475 -11.83% 8
North West -30 1 £525 -12.50% 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 14 (18.67%) Apache
2 8 (10.67%) JBoss
2 8 (10.67%) WebLogic
3 6 (8.00%) Confluence
4 5 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (6.67%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.33%) CICS
6 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 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 19 (25.33%) GitHub
3 14 (18.67%) Azure
4 13 (17.33%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (16.00%) GCP
6 10 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.67%) Datadog
9 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.67%) Serverless
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.33%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.33%) Cohesity
10 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.33%) npm
10 4 (5.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.33%) Firewall
2 21 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (9.33%) DNS
4 3 (4.00%) VPN
5 2 (2.67%) DHCP
5 2 (2.67%) Network Security
5 2 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
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%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 5 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 5 (6.67%) HBase
3 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (40.00%) Git
2 29 (38.67%) Jenkins
3 20 (26.67%) Postman
4 19 (25.33%) GitLab
5 13 (17.33%) Selenium
6 12 (16.00%) JUnit
7 9 (12.00%) JIRA
8 8 (10.67%) Eclipse
8 8 (10.67%) IntelliJ
9 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket
9 6 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
10 5 (6.67%) Cypress.io
10 5 (6.67%) Gradle
10 5 (6.67%) Maven
10 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
11 4 (5.33%) CircleCI
11 4 (5.33%) Snyk
11 4 (5.33%) webpack
12 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) 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 19 (25.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (17.33%) 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 7 (9.33%) Site Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Hadoop Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) Linux Specialist
11 2 (2.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) Elastic Stack
1 14 (18.67%) REST
2 12 (16.00%) JSON
3 8 (10.67%) EJB
3 8 (10.67%) Hibernate
3 8 (10.67%) HTML
3 8 (10.67%) HTML5
3 8 (10.67%) J2EE
3 8 (10.67%) J2SE
3 8 (10.67%) Play Framework
3 8 (10.67%) SOAP
3 8 (10.67%) Spring
3 8 (10.67%) XML
4 5 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (6.67%) YAML
5 2 (2.67%) LDAP
5 2 (2.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.33%) Middleware
6 1 (1.33%) OAuth
6 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%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 37 (49.33%) Linux
2 25 (33.33%) 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 42 (56.00%) Configuration Management
3 37 (49.33%) CI/CD
4 30 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (36.00%) Agile
6 25 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (24.00%) Migration
9 17 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 14 (18.67%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.67%) Scrum
12 13 (17.33%) Continuous Delivery
12 13 (17.33%) Data Management
13 11 (14.67%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (13.33%) Computer Science
15 9 (12.00%) Microservices
15 9 (12.00%) Observability
15 9 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (66.67%) Python
2 23 (30.67%) Bash
3 11 (14.67%) Java
3 11 (14.67%) SQL
4 10 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 9 (12.00%) 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 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Degree
3 8 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.67%) RHCE
8 2 (2.67%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (45.33%) 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%) KVM
5 3 (4.00%) Lustre
5 3 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.33%) NFS
7 1 (1.33%) SRDF
7 1 (1.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (80.00%) Ansible
2 29 (38.67%) Terraform
3 23 (30.67%) Kubernetes
4 16 (21.33%) Progress Chef
5 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (10.67%) Grafana
7 7 (9.33%) Prometheus
7 7 (9.33%) SCCM
8 6 (8.00%) Kibana
8 6 (8.00%) Salt
9 5 (6.67%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (5.33%) NetBackup
10 4 (5.33%) Podman
11 1 (1.33%) Consul
11 1 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.33%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) VMware
2 16 (21.33%) MuleSoft
3 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (18.67%) Splunk
4 10 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (10.67%) webMethods
6 4 (5.33%) Commvault
7 3 (4.00%) Oracle
8 2 (2.67%) Google
8 2 (2.67%) IBM
8 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.33%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco
9 1 (1.33%) F5
9 1 (1.33%) HP
9 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.33%) Vertica