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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 290 267
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 -10
Contract jobs citing Puppet 74 70 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.44% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.64% 3.19% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 41 102
10th Percentile £422 £356 £452
25th Percentile £458 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% -2.61%
75th Percentile £616 £622 £625
90th Percentile £747 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -4.98% +0.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £71.40
25th Percentile - £15.50 -
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -79.49% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - £78.59
UK median hourly rate - £55.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -28.85% -

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 2,803 2,196 2,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.70% 13.86% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,943 1,382 1,893
10th Percentile £257 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £661 £693
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 44 127
10th Percentile £15.88 £12.81 £16.82
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.86 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.32 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -44.78% +75.36%
75th Percentile £67.00 £46.18 £68.07
90th Percentile £85.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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
Midlands -11 27 £525 -1.87% 15
West Midlands -7 25 £550 +2.80% 9
North of England -42 21 £479 -21.23% 15
Yorkshire -32 20 £475 -22.76% 7
South East -19 11 £590 +19.19% 29
South West -19 8 £600 +5.26% 11
East of England - 8 £575 - 8
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 6
North West -23 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 (18.92%) Apache
2 9 (12.16%) Confluence
3 8 (10.81%) JBoss
3 8 (10.81%) WebLogic
4 5 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (6.76%) Apache Spark
4 5 (6.76%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.35%) CICS
6 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Weka
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.05%) AWS
2 21 (28.38%) Azure
3 17 (22.97%) GitHub
4 15 (20.27%) GCP
5 13 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (17.57%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (10.81%) Serverless
9 7 (9.46%) Azure AKS
9 7 (9.46%) OpenShift
10 6 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.76%) Datadog
12 4 (5.41%) Cohesity
12 4 (5.41%) npm
12 4 (5.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) Firewall
1 12 (16.22%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.81%) DNS
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 2 (2.70%) DHCP
4 2 (2.70%) HTTP
4 2 (2.70%) Network Security
4 2 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.35%) FCoE
5 1 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.35%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) MQTT
5 1 (1.35%) Multicast
5 1 (1.35%) NAS
5 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (12.16%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.76%) Apache Hive
5 5 (6.76%) Hadoop
5 5 (6.76%) HBase
6 4 (5.41%) MySQL
7 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.35%) Redis
9 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (39.19%) Git
2 24 (32.43%) Jenkins
3 20 (27.03%) GitLab
4 13 (17.57%) Selenium
5 12 (16.22%) JIRA
5 12 (16.22%) JUnit
6 10 (13.51%) Postman
7 8 (10.81%) Bitbucket
7 8 (10.81%) Eclipse
7 8 (10.81%) IntelliJ
8 7 (9.46%) SonarQube
8 7 (9.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (8.11%) Artifactory
10 5 (6.76%) CircleCI
10 5 (6.76%) Cypress.io
10 5 (6.76%) Gradle
10 5 (6.76%) Maven
11 4 (5.41%) Snyk
11 4 (5.41%) webpack
12 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Finance
4 8 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Site Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Senior
3 8 (10.81%) Splunk Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Hadoop Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Architect
7 3 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.70%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (20.27%) REST
3 13 (17.57%) JSON
4 9 (12.16%) XML
5 8 (10.81%) EJB
5 8 (10.81%) Hibernate
5 8 (10.81%) HTML
5 8 (10.81%) HTML5
5 8 (10.81%) J2EE
5 8 (10.81%) J2SE
5 8 (10.81%) Play Framework
5 8 (10.81%) SOAP
5 8 (10.81%) Spring
6 6 (8.11%) YAML
7 5 (6.76%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (2.70%) LDAP
8 2 (2.70%) RESTful
9 1 (1.35%) ADO
9 1 (1.35%) Middleware
9 1 (1.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.35%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (52.70%) Linux
2 23 (31.08%) Unix
3 8 (10.81%) Windows
4 3 (4.05%) CentOS
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.35%) MVS
6 1 (1.35%) Solaris
6 1 (1.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) DevOps
2 43 (58.11%) CI/CD
3 36 (48.65%) Configuration Management
4 35 (47.30%) Containerisation
5 33 (44.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (36.49%) Agile
7 22 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (24.32%) Software Engineering
9 16 (21.62%) Scrum
9 16 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 15 (20.27%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (20.27%) Migration
11 14 (18.92%) Microservices
12 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
12 13 (17.57%) Continuous Delivery
12 13 (17.57%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (17.57%) Incident Response
12 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (16.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 47 (63.51%) Python
2 28 (37.84%) Bash
3 14 (18.92%) Java
4 12 (16.22%) SQL
5 10 (13.51%) Shell Script
6 9 (12.16%) Scala
7 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.05%) Go
8 3 (4.05%) Perl
9 1 (1.35%) C++
9 1 (1.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.35%) Ruby
9 1 (1.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) Degree
3 11 (14.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.70%) RHCE
8 2 (2.70%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (59.46%) Docker
2 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.76%) HDFS
4 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.05%) GPFS
4 3 (4.05%) KVM
4 3 (4.05%) Lustre
4 3 (4.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (4.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.35%) NFS
6 1 (1.35%) SRDF
6 1 (1.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (82.43%) Ansible
2 33 (44.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (44.59%) Terraform
3 20 (27.03%) Progress Chef
4 13 (17.57%) Grafana
5 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
6 9 (12.16%) Kibana
7 6 (8.11%) Podman
7 6 (8.11%) Salt
8 5 (6.76%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (5.41%) NetBackup
10 3 (4.05%) SCCM
11 2 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.70%) Istio
12 1 (1.35%) Consul
12 1 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (1.35%) logstash
12 1 (1.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Splunk
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) VMware
3 8 (10.81%) webMethods
4 7 (9.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (8.11%) MuleSoft
6 4 (5.41%) Commvault
7 2 (2.70%) Dell
7 2 (2.70%) Google
7 2 (2.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle
7 2 (2.70%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.35%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.35%) EMC
8 1 (1.35%) F5
8 1 (1.35%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.35%) Vertica