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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 236 325
Rank change year-on-year -112 +89 -35
Contract jobs citing Puppet 66 98 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.77% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.16% 4.93% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 69 53
10th Percentile £431 £357 £456
25th Percentile £500 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £600
90th Percentile £625 £665 £682
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -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 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +35.71% -2.10%

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 3,056 1,988 2,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.05% 15.66% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 1,338 1,735
10th Percentile £275 £226 £213
25th Percentile £400 £382 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 32 99
10th Percentile £18.92 £12.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £19.51 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -8.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.42 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £78.58 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -75 25 £500 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 +17.65% 2
Midlands -53 20 £525 +27.12% 3
West Midlands -44 18 £550 +10.00% 2
South East -55 10 £650 +33.33% 6
South West -52 7 £553 -7.92% 7
East of England -19 4 £619 +12.50%
East Midlands -35 2 £525 +61.04% 1
North West -43 1 £300 -33.48% 2
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 15 (22.73%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) Apache
2 4 (6.06%) JBoss
2 4 (6.06%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.52%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Weka
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.85%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) GitHub
3 15 (22.73%) Azure
4 8 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (10.61%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.61%) Serverless
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.09%) CloudBees
6 6 (9.09%) GCP
6 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
7 5 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (6.06%) Cohesity
8 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.06%) Network Security
3 3 (4.55%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) Firewall
4 2 (3.03%) HTTP
4 2 (3.03%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.03%) SAN
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.52%) Internet
5 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.52%) MQTT
5 1 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (30.30%) Git
3 16 (24.24%) JIRA
4 11 (16.67%) GitLab
5 8 (12.12%) Bitbucket
6 6 (9.09%) JUnit
6 6 (9.09%) Selenium
7 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
7 4 (6.06%) Eclipse
7 4 (6.06%) IntelliJ
7 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 4 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (4.55%) CircleCI
8 3 (4.55%) Gradle
8 3 (4.55%) Maven
9 2 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.03%) Postman
9 2 (3.03%) Snyk
9 2 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Banking
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.58%) Finance
6 4 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) Site Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Lead
6 7 (10.61%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Architect
9 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) DevOps Architect
9 2 (3.03%) DevOps Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (19.70%) REST
3 12 (18.18%) YAML
4 8 (12.12%) JSON
5 5 (7.58%) SOAP
5 5 (7.58%) XML
6 4 (6.06%) EJB
6 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.06%) HTML
6 4 (6.06%) HTML5
6 4 (6.06%) J2EE
6 4 (6.06%) J2SE
6 4 (6.06%) Play Framework
6 4 (6.06%) Spring
7 2 (3.03%) Loki
7 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.52%) gRPC
8 1 (1.52%) Kafka
8 1 (1.52%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (63.64%) Linux
2 17 (25.76%) Unix
3 12 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (13.64%) CentOS
4 9 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (9.09%) Windows
6 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (77.27%) DevOps
2 40 (60.61%) CI/CD
3 29 (43.94%) Configuration Management
4 28 (42.42%) Containerisation
5 26 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (28.79%) Agile
9 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (25.76%) Observability
10 15 (22.73%) Incident Response
10 15 (22.73%) Software Engineering
10 15 (22.73%) Test Automation
11 12 (18.18%) Computer Science
11 12 (18.18%) Migration
12 11 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (16.67%) Data Protection
12 11 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (77.27%) Python
2 36 (54.55%) Bash
3 9 (13.64%) Java
3 9 (13.64%) Perl
3 9 (13.64%) Ruby
4 7 (10.61%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.06%) Scala
6 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.03%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) Groovy
8 1 (1.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) Degree
3 12 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (16.67%) RHCE
5 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
6 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.55%) CCNP
7 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.55%) OCA
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (4.55%) RHCA
7 3 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 32 (48.48%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.55%) GPFS
3 3 (4.55%) Lustre
3 3 (4.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (3.03%) SRDF
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (92.42%) Ansible
2 30 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Terraform
4 18 (27.27%) Progress Chef
5 14 (21.21%) Grafana
6 13 (19.70%) Prometheus
7 11 (16.67%) Kibana
8 10 (15.15%) NetBackup
9 4 (6.06%) Podman
9 4 (6.06%) Salt
10 3 (4.55%) Argo
10 3 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (3.03%) Istio
12 1 (1.52%) Consul
12 1 (1.52%) logstash
12 1 (1.52%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (28.79%) Red Hat
2 15 (22.73%) Splunk
3 9 (13.64%) Commvault
4 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.09%) Veritas
5 6 (9.09%) VMware
6 4 (6.06%) Broadcom
6 4 (6.06%) webMethods
7 3 (4.55%) Dell
8 2 (3.03%) Cisco
8 2 (3.03%) HP
8 2 (3.03%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.03%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.52%) F5
9 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.52%) Intel
9 1 (1.52%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.52%) Tenable