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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 257 318
Rank change year-on-year -157 +61 -25
Contract jobs citing Puppet 54 100 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.74% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.64% 4.87% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 77 64
10th Percentile £462 £346 £456
25th Percentile £474 £413 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +2.59% -6.58%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £622
90th Percentile £731 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.57% -5.92%
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 3,293 2,054 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.64% 15.10% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,224 1,400 1,759
10th Percentile £285 £231 £224
25th Percentile £406 £378 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £515
% change year-on-year - -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 29 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £15.10
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.27 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -86 15 £500 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -53 14 £513 +28.13%
South East -62 12 £670 +16.52% 5
Midlands -57 10 £600 +14.29%
West Midlands -58 8 £600 +11.63%
South West -67 6 £553 -7.92% 8
Wales - 6 £465 -
East of England -31 4 £400 -22.52% 2
East Midlands -13 2 - -
Scotland -7 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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) GitHub
4 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.96%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.96%) Serverless
6 6 (11.11%) CloudBees
6 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (9.26%) Datadog
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Network Security
2 4 (7.41%) MQTT
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.70%) SAN
3 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.93%) GitLab
3 13 (24.07%) Git
4 12 (22.22%) JIRA
5 7 (12.96%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.26%) Artifactory
6 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.85%) Ant
8 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.85%) Maven
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
5 4 (7.41%) Legal
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Site Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Lead
4 6 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.11%) YAML
3 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 4 (7.41%) gRPC
4 4 (7.41%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (7.41%) REST
4 4 (7.41%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) ADO
5 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.70%) Loki
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) Middleware
6 1 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 6 (11.11%) CUDA
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (81.48%) Linux
2 12 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (20.37%) Windows
4 7 (12.96%) CentOS
4 7 (12.96%) Ubuntu
4 7 (12.96%) Unix
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 31 (57.41%) DevOps
3 24 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (37.04%) Configuration Management
5 19 (35.19%) Containerisation
6 16 (29.63%) Agile
7 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Automation
7 15 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (20.37%) Observability
9 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (18.52%) Data Protection
10 10 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (14.81%) Microservices
11 8 (14.81%) Migration
11 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (12.96%) Incident Response
12 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (12.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (79.63%) Python
2 32 (59.26%) Bash
3 14 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.11%) Perl
4 6 (11.11%) Ruby
4 6 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.26%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) Go
6 4 (7.41%) Rust
7 2 (3.70%) Groovy
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) Scala
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) Degree
3 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.81%) RHCE
5 5 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.56%) CCNP
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.56%) OCA
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (5.56%) RHCA
7 3 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
2 7 (12.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.70%) SRDF
6 1 (1.85%) GPFS
6 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.85%) Lustre
6 1 (1.85%) Squid
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (100.00%) Ansible
2 24 (44.44%) Terraform
3 21 (38.89%) Kubernetes
4 18 (33.33%) Progress Chef
5 13 (24.07%) Grafana
5 13 (24.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (11.11%) NetBackup
7 5 (9.26%) Podman
8 3 (5.56%) Istio
8 3 (5.56%) Kibana
9 2 (3.70%) Argo
9 2 (3.70%) Salt
10 1 (1.85%) Consul
10 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 10 (18.52%) NVIDIA
3 7 (12.96%) Splunk
4 6 (11.11%) Veritas
4 6 (11.11%) VMware
5 5 (9.26%) Commvault
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.41%) Tenable
7 3 (5.56%) Broadcom
8 2 (3.70%) Cisco
8 2 (3.70%) Dell
8 2 (3.70%) HP
8 2 (3.70%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.85%) F5
9 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.85%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.85%) Trend Micro