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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 253 328
Rank change year-on-year -122 +75 -40
Contract jobs citing Puppet 67 87 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.69% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 4.51% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 70 49
10th Percentile £448 £349 £459
25th Percentile £482 £437 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £572 £623 £622
90th Percentile £663 £657 £678
UK median daily rate £528 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -5.80% -2.61% -4.17%
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 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.10%

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 3,159 1,928 2,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 15.21% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,161 1,355 1,709
10th Percentile £281 £230 £213
25th Percentile £402 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £492 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +0.61% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 27 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £17.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £21.39 £17.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.58 £73.16
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +98.20% +0.91% -50.00%

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 23 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 23 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 -74 21 £500 +28.53% 11
Yorkshire -54 20 £500 +28.87% 2
Midlands -59 17 £575 +35.14% 1
West Midlands -53 13 £600 +14.29% 1
South East -70 12 £720 +25.22% 9
South West -66 6 £553 -7.92% 11
Wales - 6 £465 -
East Midlands -28 4 £525 +61.04%
East of England -32 4 £400 -27.27%
Scotland -3 1 - - 1
North West -45 1 £300 -25.37% 7
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 (19.40%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.49%) JBoss
3 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 21 (31.34%) Azure
3 17 (25.37%) GitHub
4 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (13.43%) OpenShift
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (11.94%) GCP
7 7 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (10.45%) Serverless
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (8.96%) Azure AKS
8 6 (8.96%) CloudBees
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.46%) Datadog
10 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
11 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) Network Security
3 2 (2.99%) HTTP
3 2 (2.99%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.99%) MQTT
3 2 (2.99%) SAN
3 2 (2.99%) SSL
4 1 (1.49%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (38.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (26.87%) Git
3 15 (22.39%) GitLab
3 15 (22.39%) JIRA
4 8 (11.94%) Bitbucket
5 6 (8.96%) Artifactory
5 6 (8.96%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.99%) Maven
8 1 (1.49%) Ant
8 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.49%) Gradle
8 1 (1.49%) JUnit
8 1 (1.49%) Postman
8 1 (1.49%) Selenium
8 1 (1.49%) Snyk
8 1 (1.49%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Finance
6 3 (4.48%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) Site Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Lead
4 8 (11.94%) Splunk Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.85%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (16.42%) YAML
3 6 (8.96%) REST
4 4 (5.97%) Loki
5 3 (4.48%) ADO
5 3 (4.48%) JSON
5 3 (4.48%) Kafka
6 2 (2.99%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.99%) gRPC
6 2 (2.99%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.99%) Node.js
7 1 (1.49%) Middleware
7 1 (1.49%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.49%) RESTful
7 1 (1.49%) SOAP
7 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) CUDA
3 5 (7.46%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (79.10%) Linux
2 15 (22.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (19.40%) Unix
4 10 (14.93%) CentOS
4 10 (14.93%) Ubuntu
5 7 (10.45%) Windows
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (70.15%) DevOps
2 44 (65.67%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.27%) Containerisation
4 27 (40.30%) Configuration Management
5 25 (37.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (34.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (28.36%) Agile
8 19 (28.36%) Observability
9 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (22.39%) Incident Response
11 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (16.42%) Computer Science
12 11 (16.42%) Migration
13 10 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
13 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
14 9 (13.43%) Data Protection
14 9 (13.43%) RBAC
14 9 (13.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (74.63%) Python
2 37 (55.22%) Bash
3 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.43%) Perl
4 9 (13.43%) Ruby
5 8 (11.94%) Java
6 4 (5.97%) Go
6 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.99%) Groovy
7 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) Rust
7 2 (2.99%) Scala
7 2 (2.99%) SQL
7 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.49%) Bicep
8 1 (1.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) Degree
3 11 (16.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.42%) RHCE
4 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
5 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) CCNP
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.48%) OCA
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.48%) RHCA
6 3 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
System Software
1 27 (40.30%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.99%) SRDF
6 1 (1.49%) GPFS
6 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.49%) Lustre
6 1 (1.49%) Squid
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (98.51%) Ansible
2 33 (49.25%) Kubernetes
3 26 (38.81%) Terraform
4 17 (25.37%) Grafana
4 17 (25.37%) Progress Chef
5 16 (23.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (13.43%) Kibana
7 6 (8.96%) NetBackup
8 5 (7.46%) Podman
9 4 (5.97%) Istio
10 3 (4.48%) Argo
11 2 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.99%) Salt
12 1 (1.49%) Consul
12 1 (1.49%) logstash
12 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Red Hat
2 14 (20.90%) Splunk
3 7 (10.45%) NVIDIA
4 6 (8.96%) Veritas
4 6 (8.96%) VMware
5 5 (7.46%) Commvault
6 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.48%) Broadcom
7 3 (4.48%) Dell
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco
8 2 (2.99%) HP
8 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.99%) Tenable
8 2 (2.99%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.49%) F5
9 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.49%) Intel
9 1 (1.49%) Trend Micro