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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 274 299
Rank change year-on-year -134 +25 -9
Contract jobs citing Puppet 52 95 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.63% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.49% 4.27% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 72 69
10th Percentile £465 £342 £455
25th Percentile £477 £402 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -0.54% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £622
90th Percentile £735 £636 £660
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -8.33%

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 3,489 2,227 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.88% 14.87% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,329 1,498 1,734
10th Percentile £292 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £671 £646 £656
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 43 49
10th Percentile £17.71 £18.01 £16.20
25th Percentile £21.50 £20.25 £19.64
Median hourly rate £57.12 £55.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +61.76% -26.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.99 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £37.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +57.26% +25.83% -48.80%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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
South East -70 15 £650 +13.04% 11
North of England -100 11 £500 +25.00% 23
Midlands -48 10 £600 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire -69 9 £500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands -49 8 £600 +11.63% 1
Wales - 6 £465 - 2
South West -57 5 £526 -8.48% 12
East of England -22 4 £400 -22.52% 4
East Midlands -14 2 - -
North West -55 2 £400 -0.50% 18
Scotland -18 1 - - 3
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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.92%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 29 (55.77%) Azure
3 18 (34.62%) GitHub
4 12 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (19.23%) OpenShift
6 9 (17.31%) GCP
7 8 (15.38%) Datadog
8 6 (11.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (11.54%) CloudBees
8 6 (11.54%) Serverless
9 5 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
11 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
11 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Network Security
2 4 (7.69%) MQTT
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.85%) SAN
3 2 (3.85%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.85%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) BGP
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.92%) DHCP
4 1 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.92%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.92%) MPLS
4 1 (1.92%) OSPF
4 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.92%) VPN
4 1 (1.92%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 25 (48.08%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.69%) GitLab
3 14 (26.92%) Git
4 12 (23.08%) JIRA
5 8 (15.38%) SonarQube
6 6 (11.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (9.62%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.85%) Maven
9 1 (1.92%) Ant
9 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.92%) Gradle
9 1 (1.92%) JUnit
9 1 (1.92%) Postman
9 1 (1.92%) Selenium
9 1 (1.92%) Snyk
9 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Legal
4 5 (9.62%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Finance
5 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Senior
2 8 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Site Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.54%) REST
3 5 (9.62%) Kafka
4 4 (7.69%) gRPC
4 4 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (7.69%) RESTful
5 3 (5.77%) JSON
5 3 (5.77%) YAML
6 2 (3.85%) ADO
6 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.85%) Loki
6 2 (3.85%) Node.js
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.92%) Middleware
7 1 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.31%) Product Ownership
3 8 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 6 (11.54%) CUDA
4 6 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.92%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (82.69%) Linux
2 16 (30.77%) Windows
3 11 (21.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.62%) Unix
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.85%) CentOS
6 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 31 (59.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (50.00%) DevOps
4 22 (42.31%) Configuration Management
5 18 (34.62%) Containerisation
6 17 (32.69%) Agile
7 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (23.08%) Data Protection
10 12 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (21.15%) Observability
12 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
13 9 (17.31%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (15.38%) Incident Management
14 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (15.38%) Microservices
14 8 (15.38%) Runbook
14 8 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) Python
2 35 (67.31%) Bash
3 21 (40.38%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Go
4 6 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.62%) Java
6 4 (7.69%) Rust
7 2 (3.85%) Groovy
7 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) Scala
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) Bicep
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) Perl
8 1 (1.92%) Ruby
8 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Degree
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.69%) CCNP
5 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.77%) OCA
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (5.77%) RHCA
6 3 (5.77%) RHCE
6 3 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.92%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
2 7 (13.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.85%) SRDF
5 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.92%) GPFS
5 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.92%) Lustre
5 1 (1.92%) Squid
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (100.00%) Ansible
2 30 (57.69%) Terraform
3 26 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 20 (38.46%) Kubernetes
5 15 (28.85%) Grafana
5 15 (28.85%) Prometheus
6 6 (11.54%) NetBackup
6 6 (11.54%) Podman
7 3 (5.77%) Istio
8 2 (3.85%) Argo
9 1 (1.92%) Consul
9 1 (1.92%) Packer
9 1 (1.92%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) NVIDIA
2 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
2 7 (13.46%) Splunk
2 7 (13.46%) VMware
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.54%) Veritas
4 5 (9.62%) Commvault
5 4 (7.69%) Tenable
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco
7 2 (3.85%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.85%) Dell
7 2 (3.85%) F5
7 2 (3.85%) HP
7 2 (3.85%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) Trend Micro