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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 244 316
Rank change year-on-year -129 +72 -26
Contract jobs citing Puppet 61 96 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.75% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.90% 4.87% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 75 56
10th Percentile £465 £352 £460
25th Percentile £477 £422 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.59% -6.58%
75th Percentile £564 £623 £613
90th Percentile £600 £652 £666
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% -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 - £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 3,205 1,972 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.80% 15.32% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 1,384 1,753
10th Percentile £281 £235 £213
25th Percentile £403 £387 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -0.61% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £656 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 27 63
10th Percentile £18.91 £17.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.68 £17.36
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -7.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.88 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.58 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -47.83%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -87 20 £500 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire -67 19 £513 +28.13% 2
Midlands -50 15 £588 +38.07%
West Midlands -58 13 £588 +11.90%
South East -69 9 £610 +6.09% 7
South West -67 6 £553 -7.92% 8
Wales - 6 £465 -
East of England -32 4 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -23 2 - -
Scotland -5 1 - -
North West -53 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 11 (18.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.64%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) AWS
2 18 (29.51%) Azure
3 17 (27.87%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
6 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.11%) GCP
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (9.84%) CloudBees
8 6 (9.84%) Serverless
9 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (8.20%) Datadog
10 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
10 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Network Security
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.28%) MQTT
3 2 (3.28%) SAN
3 2 (3.28%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
4 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.64%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (37.70%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) Git
2 14 (22.95%) GitLab
3 13 (21.31%) JIRA
4 6 (9.84%) Artifactory
4 6 (9.84%) Bitbucket
4 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
5 5 (8.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.28%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) Ant
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) JUnit
7 1 (1.64%) Postman
7 1 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Snyk
7 1 (1.64%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Banking
3 5 (8.20%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Site Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Lead
5 8 (13.11%) Senior
6 7 (11.48%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Splunk Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (9.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) DevOps Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.23%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (18.03%) YAML
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) Loki
5 3 (4.92%) JSON
5 3 (4.92%) Kafka
6 2 (3.28%) ADO
6 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.28%) gRPC
6 2 (3.28%) Keycloak
6 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (3.28%) RESTful
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.64%) Middleware
7 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.64%) SOAP
7 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.84%) CUDA
3 5 (8.20%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (81.97%) Linux
2 15 (24.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (18.03%) Unix
4 10 (16.39%) CentOS
4 10 (16.39%) Ubuntu
5 7 (11.48%) Windows
6 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) DevOps
2 41 (67.21%) CI/CD
3 26 (42.62%) Configuration Management
3 26 (42.62%) Containerisation
4 24 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (32.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (27.87%) Observability
8 16 (26.23%) Agile
9 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (18.03%) Incident Response
12 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
12 10 (16.39%) Migration
13 9 (14.75%) Data Protection
13 9 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
13 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
14 8 (13.11%) ITSM
14 8 (13.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (80.33%) Python
2 36 (59.02%) Bash
3 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
4 9 (14.75%) Perl
4 9 (14.75%) Ruby
5 6 (9.84%) Java
6 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.56%) Go
8 2 (3.28%) Groovy
8 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
8 2 (3.28%) Scala
8 2 (3.28%) SQL
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) Bicep
9 1 (1.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
1 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) RHCE
3 10 (16.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
5 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.92%) CCNP
6 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.92%) OCA
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.92%) RHCA
6 3 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (36.07%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.28%) SRDF
6 1 (1.64%) GPFS
6 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.64%) Lustre
6 1 (1.64%) Squid
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (100.00%) Ansible
2 28 (45.90%) Kubernetes
3 24 (39.34%) Terraform
4 16 (26.23%) Grafana
4 16 (26.23%) Progress Chef
5 15 (24.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (13.11%) Kibana
7 6 (9.84%) NetBackup
8 4 (6.56%) Argo
8 4 (6.56%) Podman
9 3 (4.92%) Istio
10 2 (3.28%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (3.28%) Salt
11 1 (1.64%) Consul
11 1 (1.64%) logstash
11 1 (1.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Red Hat
2 12 (19.67%) Splunk
3 8 (13.11%) NVIDIA
4 6 (9.84%) Veritas
4 6 (9.84%) VMware
5 5 (8.20%) Commvault
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.92%) Broadcom
8 2 (3.28%) Cisco
8 2 (3.28%) Dell
8 2 (3.28%) HP
8 2 (3.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.28%) Tenable
8 2 (3.28%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.64%) F5
9 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.64%) Trend Micro