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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 263 303
Rank change year-on-year -159 +40 -20
Contract jobs citing Puppet 51 96 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.65% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.47% 4.35% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 73 66
10th Percentile £465 £343 £456
25th Percentile £477 £403 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -1.87% -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £622
90th Percentile £735 £635 £666
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -8.33%
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 3,481 2,209 2,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.88% 14.91% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,336 1,490 1,741
10th Percentile £282 £235 £240
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £516
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.20% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 43 51
10th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.42 £20.25 £23.22
Median hourly rate £52.50 £59.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +47.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.99 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 18 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 18 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 -56 14 £650 +13.04% 8
North of England -101 11 £500 +25.00% 10
Yorkshire -59 10 £500 +25.00% 2
Midlands -51 9 £600 +14.29% 1
West Midlands -56 7 £600 +11.63% 1
South West -65 6 £553 -7.92% 6
Wales - 6 £465 - 1
East of England -23 4 £400 -22.52% 2
East Midlands -12 2 - -
Scotland -13 1 - - 1
North West -56 1 £300 -25.37% 6
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 (19.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.96%) JBoss
2 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) AWS
2 27 (52.94%) Azure
3 16 (31.37%) GitHub
4 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (17.65%) OpenShift
6 8 (15.69%) GCP
7 7 (13.73%) Datadog
8 6 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (11.76%) CloudBees
8 6 (11.76%) Serverless
9 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (9.80%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Network Security
2 4 (7.84%) MQTT
3 2 (3.92%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.92%) SAN
3 2 (3.92%) SSL
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (1.96%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 23 (45.10%) Jenkins
2 15 (29.41%) GitLab
3 12 (23.53%) Git
3 12 (23.53%) JIRA
4 7 (13.73%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
6 4 (7.84%) Artifactory
6 4 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.96%) Ant
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Legal
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
4 5 (9.80%) Finance
5 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (15.69%) Senior
1 8 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (9.80%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) gRPC
3 4 (7.84%) Keycloak
3 4 (7.84%) Protocol Buffers
3 4 (7.84%) REST
3 4 (7.84%) RESTful
4 2 (3.92%) ADO
4 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.92%) Loki
4 2 (3.92%) Node.js
4 2 (3.92%) YAML
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.96%) JSON
5 1 (1.96%) Middleware
5 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
3 7 (13.73%) Private Cloud
4 6 (11.76%) CUDA
4 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) PKI
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (82.35%) Linux
2 14 (27.45%) Windows
3 11 (21.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Unix
5 3 (5.88%) CentOS
5 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 28 (54.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (49.02%) DevOps
4 20 (39.22%) Configuration Management
5 17 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 16 (31.37%) Agile
7 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (27.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (23.53%) Data Protection
9 12 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (19.61%) Observability
12 9 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (15.69%) Incident Management
13 8 (15.69%) Microservices
13 8 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (15.69%) Runbook
13 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
14 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (13.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 40 (78.43%) Python
2 33 (64.71%) Bash
3 19 (37.25%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.76%) Go
4 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.80%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) Rust
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
7 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.92%) Perl
7 2 (3.92%) Ruby
7 2 (3.92%) Scala
7 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) C++
8 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) Degree
3 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.84%) RHCE
6 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.88%) CCNP
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.88%) OCA
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (5.88%) RHCA
6 3 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 7 (13.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.92%) SRDF
5 1 (1.96%) GPFS
5 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.96%) Lustre
5 1 (1.96%) Squid
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (100.00%) Ansible
2 28 (54.90%) Terraform
3 23 (45.10%) Progress Chef
4 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
5 14 (27.45%) Grafana
5 14 (27.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (11.76%) NetBackup
7 5 (9.80%) Podman
8 3 (5.88%) Istio
9 2 (3.92%) Argo
10 1 (1.96%) Consul
10 1 (1.96%) Packer
10 1 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) NVIDIA
2 8 (15.69%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Splunk
3 6 (11.76%) Veritas
3 6 (11.76%) VMware
4 5 (9.80%) Commvault
5 4 (7.84%) Tenable
6 3 (5.88%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco
7 2 (3.92%) Dell
7 2 (3.92%) HP
7 2 (3.92%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.96%) F5
8 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.96%) Trend Micro