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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 289 272
Rank change year-on-year -42 -17 -21
Contract jobs citing Puppet 68 66 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.39% 3.15% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 92
10th Percentile £429 £356 £465
25th Percentile £463 £394 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -10.91% -1.54%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £625
90th Percentile £731 £628 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £560
% change year-on-year -7.49% +1.34% -6.67%
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 2,843 2,097 2,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.54% 14.20% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 1,336 1,820
10th Percentile £260 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -4.65% -2.62%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £606
90th Percentile £651 £656 £694
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 41 124
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.64 £20.19
Median hourly rate £48.72 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +101.49% -47.64% +73.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.60 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.84 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.50% -46.21% +34.83%

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 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 23 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 -14 30 £538 +0.47% 15
West Midlands -5 28 £550 +2.80% 8
North of England -49 17 £482 -18.48% 20
Yorkshire -34 16 £479 -17.85% 11
South East -15 13 £590 +20.41% 22
South West -10 5 £600 +5.26% 9
East of England -19 4 £619 +3.13% 8
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 6
North West -36 1 £525 -12.50% 8
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 (19.12%) Apache
2 9 (13.24%) Confluence
3 8 (11.76%) JBoss
3 8 (11.76%) WebLogic
4 6 (8.82%) OpenStack
5 5 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.47%) CICS
6 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Weka
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) AWS
2 22 (32.35%) Azure
3 16 (23.53%) GitHub
4 14 (20.59%) GCP
5 13 (19.12%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (16.18%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (13.24%) OpenShift
8 9 (13.24%) Serverless
9 8 (11.76%) Azure AKS
9 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
11 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (8.82%) Datadog
12 5 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (7.35%) npm
12 5 (7.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 5 (7.35%) DNS
4 3 (4.41%) Network Security
5 2 (2.94%) DHCP
5 2 (2.94%) HTTP
5 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) FCoE
6 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.47%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.47%) Internet
6 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.47%) LAN
6 1 (1.47%) MQTT
6 1 (1.47%) Multicast
6 1 (1.47%) NAS
6 1 (1.47%) SAN
6 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (13.24%) MongoDB
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.35%) Apache Hive
5 5 (7.35%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.35%) HBase
6 3 (4.41%) MySQL
6 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Git
2 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
3 16 (23.53%) GitLab
4 14 (20.59%) Selenium
5 13 (19.12%) JUnit
6 10 (14.71%) JIRA
7 9 (13.24%) Bitbucket
8 8 (11.76%) Eclipse
8 8 (11.76%) IntelliJ
8 8 (11.76%) SonarQube
8 8 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (10.29%) Artifactory
9 7 (10.29%) Postman
10 6 (8.82%) CircleCI
10 6 (8.82%) Cypress.io
10 6 (8.82%) Gradle
10 6 (8.82%) Maven
11 5 (7.35%) Snyk
11 5 (7.35%) webpack
12 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.35%) Finance
6 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.47%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Site Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Splunk Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Hadoop Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Senior
6 4 (5.88%) Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Linux Specialist
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.82%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (23.53%) REST
3 14 (20.59%) JSON
4 9 (13.24%) XML
5 8 (11.76%) EJB
5 8 (11.76%) Hibernate
5 8 (11.76%) HTML
5 8 (11.76%) HTML5
5 8 (11.76%) J2EE
5 8 (11.76%) J2SE
5 8 (11.76%) Play Framework
5 8 (11.76%) SOAP
5 8 (11.76%) Spring
6 7 (10.29%) YAML
7 5 (7.35%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (2.94%) LDAP
8 2 (2.94%) Loki
8 2 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.94%) RESTful
9 1 (1.47%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.82%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (57.35%) Linux
2 21 (30.88%) Unix
3 5 (7.35%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) CentOS
4 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) MVS
5 1 (1.47%) Solaris
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (76.47%) DevOps
2 43 (63.24%) CI/CD
3 37 (54.41%) Containerisation
4 35 (51.47%) Configuration Management
5 32 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (36.76%) Agile
7 24 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (26.47%) Software Engineering
10 17 (25.00%) Observability
11 16 (23.53%) Scrum
12 15 (22.06%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (22.06%) Incident Response
13 14 (20.59%) Computer Science
13 14 (20.59%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (20.59%) Microservices
14 13 (19.12%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (19.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Python
2 30 (44.12%) Bash
3 14 (20.59%) Java
4 13 (19.12%) SQL
5 8 (11.76%) Scala
5 8 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.41%) Go
7 3 (4.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.47%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) Groovy
8 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) Degree
3 12 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (14.71%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.94%) RHCE
8 2 (2.94%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 46 (67.65%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) HDFS
4 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.41%) GPFS
4 3 (4.41%) KVM
4 3 (4.41%) Lustre
4 3 (4.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.47%) NFS
6 1 (1.47%) SRDF
6 1 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (86.76%) Ansible
2 37 (54.41%) Kubernetes
3 31 (45.59%) Terraform
4 18 (26.47%) Progress Chef
5 17 (25.00%) Grafana
6 15 (22.06%) Prometheus
7 11 (16.18%) Kibana
8 7 (10.29%) Podman
9 5 (7.35%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (5.88%) NetBackup
11 3 (4.41%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (4.41%) Salt
12 2 (2.94%) Argo
12 2 (2.94%) Istio
12 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (2.94%) SCCM
13 1 (1.47%) Consul
13 1 (1.47%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (1.47%) logstash
13 1 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Splunk
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) webMethods
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.82%) VMware
5 4 (5.88%) Commvault
6 2 (2.94%) Dell
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.47%) EMC
7 1 (1.47%) F5
7 1 (1.47%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.47%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.47%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.47%) Tenable