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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 303 289
Rank change year-on-year -118 -14 -23
Contract jobs citing Puppet 49 71 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.60% 3.24% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 50 57
10th Percentile £465 £352 £393
25th Percentile £483 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £622
90th Percentile £735 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -79.49%

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 3,053 2,191 2,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 14.20% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,003 1,475 1,454
10th Percentile £275 £225 £240
25th Percentile £408 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.60%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 50 33
10th Percentile £17.95 £17.19 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £63.48 £24.70 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +157.06% -35.86% -18.09%
75th Percentile £71.00 £66.19 £53.00
90th Percentile £89.80 £80.30 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -57 14 £650 +13.04% 9
Midlands -43 10 £600 +6.67% 1
East of England -19 8 £513 +39.93% 6
West Midlands -48 8 £600 +6.67% 1
Wales - 6 £465 -
South West -57 4 £575 -4.17% 9
Scotland - 4 £450 - 1
North of England -94 3 £552 +19.35% 17
Yorkshire -63 2 £601 +29.95% 7
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -57 1 £500 +26.10% 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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 31 (63.27%) AWS
2 29 (59.18%) Azure
3 13 (26.53%) GitHub
4 12 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (20.41%) GCP
6 9 (18.37%) OpenShift
7 8 (16.33%) Datadog
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (12.24%) Serverless
9 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
11 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
11 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
11 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (4.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Network Security
2 4 (8.16%) MQTT
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.12%) DNS
4 2 (4.08%) DHCP
4 2 (4.08%) Firewall
4 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (4.08%) SSL
4 2 (4.08%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) BGP
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.04%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.04%) MPLS
5 1 (2.04%) OSPF
5 1 (2.04%) SAN
5 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.04%) VPN
5 1 (2.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.08%) InfluxDB
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) Jenkins
2 19 (38.78%) GitLab
3 15 (30.61%) Git
4 8 (16.33%) SonarQube
5 7 (14.29%) JIRA
6 6 (12.24%) Artifactory
6 6 (12.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.08%) Gerrit
8 2 (4.08%) Maven
9 1 (2.04%) Ant
9 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.04%) Gradle
9 1 (2.04%) JUnit
9 1 (2.04%) Postman
9 1 (2.04%) Selenium
9 1 (2.04%) Snyk
9 1 (2.04%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Legal
4 4 (8.16%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Site Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (65.31%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (10.20%) Kafka
4 4 (8.16%) gRPC
4 4 (8.16%) Keycloak
4 4 (8.16%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (8.16%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) ADO
6 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.08%) Jolokia
6 2 (4.08%) JSON
6 2 (4.08%) LDAP
6 2 (4.08%) Loki
6 2 (4.08%) Node.js
6 2 (4.08%) YAML
7 1 (2.04%) LAMP
7 1 (2.04%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (2.04%) Middleware
7 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Private Cloud
2 10 (20.41%) Cloud Native
3 9 (18.37%) Product Ownership
4 7 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (12.24%) CUDA
6 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.04%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.04%) NHS
7 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Replication
7 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (95.92%) Linux
2 16 (32.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (24.49%) Windows
4 7 (14.29%) Unix
5 3 (6.12%) CentOS
5 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.08%) Rocky
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.04%) AIX
7 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (61.22%) CI/CD
3 26 (53.06%) DevOps
4 20 (40.82%) Containerisation
5 18 (36.73%) Configuration Management
6 14 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (26.53%) Agile
7 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (26.53%) Observability
7 13 (26.53%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (26.53%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (20.41%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (20.41%) Incident Management
10 8 (16.33%) Data Protection
10 8 (16.33%) Microservices
10 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (16.33%) Runbook
10 8 (16.33%) Scrum
10 8 (16.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (75.51%) Python
2 30 (61.22%) Bash
3 19 (38.78%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.24%) Go
5 5 (10.20%) Java
5 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.16%) Groovy
6 4 (8.16%) Perl
6 4 (8.16%) Rust
7 3 (6.12%) C++
7 3 (6.12%) SQL
8 2 (4.08%) C
8 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.08%) Scala
8 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.04%) Bicep
9 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) Degree
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Certification
5 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.04%) CCIE
7 1 (2.04%) CCNP
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 21 (42.86%) Docker
2 8 (16.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.08%) NFS
5 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.04%) GPFS
5 1 (2.04%) Lustre
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.04%) Squid
5 1 (2.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (87.76%) Ansible
2 23 (46.94%) Progress Chef
3 21 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 17 (34.69%) Grafana
4 17 (34.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.24%) Podman
6 4 (8.16%) Salt
7 3 (6.12%) Istio
8 2 (4.08%) Argo
8 2 (4.08%) NetBackup
9 1 (2.04%) Consul
9 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (2.04%) HAProxy
9 1 (2.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) NVIDIA
2 7 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 7 (14.29%) Splunk
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) Tenable
5 3 (6.12%) SaltStack
5 3 (6.12%) VMware
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle
6 2 (4.08%) Veritas
7 1 (2.04%) Cadence
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) Commvault
7 1 (2.04%) Coverity
7 1 (2.04%) Dell
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) NetApp
7 1 (2.04%) Perforce
7 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.04%) Synopsys
7 1 (2.04%) Trend Micro