Puppet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 311 296
Rank change year-on-year +56 -15 -31
Contract jobs citing Puppet 101 84 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.82% 3.49% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 65 102
10th Percentile £347 £456 £450
25th Percentile £413 £507 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £564 £596
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -5.37% +8.36%
75th Percentile £617 £622 £650
90th Percentile £650 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £564 £600
% change year-on-year -2.48% -6.00% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £56.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £66.94
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.10% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% 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 2,097 2,410 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.09% 11.44% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,752 2,357
10th Percentile £232 £228 £294
25th Percentile £378 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £511 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -5.45% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 61 111
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £21.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%
75th Percentile £66.88 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £82.96 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

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 1 July 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
South West +54 37 £600 +3.09% 25
North of England +3 33 £401 -24.69% 30
Yorkshire -12 28 £400 -24.88% 15
South East +48 14 £575 -1.20% 48
East of England +29 8 £516 -23.52% 14
Midlands +6 6 £525 -9.79% 13
North West - 5 £402 - 15
West Midlands -3 4 £538 -7.65% 9
Scotland -2 3 £550 +22.36% 10
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 4
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (15.84%) Confluence
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 52 (51.49%) AWS
2 25 (24.75%) Azure
3 17 (16.83%) GitHub
4 16 (15.84%) OpenShift
5 13 (12.87%) GCP
6 12 (11.88%) PaaS
7 10 (9.90%) IaaS
8 7 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.93%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.96%) Serverless
11 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.98%) Amazon Macie
12 2 (1.98%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.98%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (34.65%) Firewall
2 26 (25.74%) DNS
3 25 (24.75%) TCP/IP
4 18 (17.82%) DHCP
5 12 (11.88%) VPN
6 10 (9.90%) HTTP
7 8 (7.92%) SMTP
8 6 (5.94%) Network Security
9 5 (4.95%) SAN
10 4 (3.96%) SSL
11 2 (1.98%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.98%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (1.98%) VLAN
12 1 (0.99%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.99%) NAS
12 1 (0.99%) SNA
12 1 (0.99%) SSH
12 1 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.91%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.92%) Big Data
4 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (44.55%) Jenkins
2 33 (32.67%) Git
3 25 (24.75%) GitLab
4 21 (20.79%) JIRA
5 16 (15.84%) Bitbucket
6 14 (13.86%) Postman
7 8 (7.92%) Selenium
8 7 (6.93%) Maven
9 4 (3.96%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (3.96%) Gradle
9 4 (3.96%) HP UFT
9 4 (3.96%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.96%) JUnit
9 4 (3.96%) NetBeans
9 4 (3.96%) Subversion
9 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.97%) Vagrant
10 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.98%) JMeter
General
1 22 (21.78%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.97%) Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Electronics
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
7 1 (0.99%) Military
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.84%) Senior
4 11 (10.89%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Technical Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (7.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Windows Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Lead
8 6 (5.94%) Administrator
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) REST
2 11 (10.89%) SOAP
3 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.95%) Web Services
4 4 (3.96%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.96%) J2EE
4 4 (3.96%) Kafka
4 4 (3.96%) LDAP
4 4 (3.96%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) Spring
4 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.96%) Spring Integration
4 4 (3.96%) Spring MVC
5 3 (2.97%) Ajax
5 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.97%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.97%) HTML
5 3 (2.97%) HTML5
5 3 (2.97%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Clustering
1 9 (8.91%) Data Centre
1 9 (8.91%) PKI
2 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.97%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.98%) Replication
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (63.37%) Linux
2 47 (46.53%) Windows
3 28 (27.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (17.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (14.85%) Unix
6 5 (4.95%) AIX
6 5 (4.95%) CentOS
6 5 (4.95%) Solaris
7 3 (2.97%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (2.97%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.97%) VMS
7 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.98%) Debian
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.99%) SUSE
9 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (52.48%) DevOps
2 40 (39.60%) Configuration Management
3 31 (30.69%) Agile
3 31 (30.69%) CI/CD
4 29 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (23.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (20.79%) Service Management
8 19 (18.81%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (16.83%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (13.86%) Migration
10 14 (13.86%) Validation
11 12 (11.88%) Data Management
12 11 (10.89%) Reverse Engineering
13 10 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (9.90%) NsoIT
13 10 (9.90%) System Testing
14 9 (8.91%) ITSM
14 9 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (72.28%) Python
2 43 (42.57%) PowerShell
3 34 (33.66%) Bash
4 17 (16.83%) Java
5 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.96%) Ruby
7 3 (2.97%) Bicep
7 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) Perl
8 2 (1.98%) SQL
9 1 (0.99%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.99%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) Go
9 1 (0.99%) Korn
9 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (39.60%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.80%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) CCNP
4 10 (9.90%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (9.90%) Degree
4 10 (9.90%) OCA
4 10 (9.90%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (9.90%) RHCA
4 10 (9.90%) RHCE
4 10 (9.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.97%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.98%) NIST
3 2 (1.98%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.99%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (41.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (36.63%) Docker
3 17 (16.83%) Hyper-V
4 13 (12.87%) Active Directory
5 9 (8.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 9 (8.91%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (7.92%) BitLocker
6 8 (7.92%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (7.92%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.97%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (76.24%) Ansible
2 36 (35.64%) Terraform
3 34 (33.66%) Progress Chef
4 32 (31.68%) Kubernetes
5 18 (17.82%) vCenter Server
6 9 (8.91%) Nagios
7 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (7.92%) vMotion
8 6 (5.94%) Grafana
9 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
9 5 (4.95%) Salt
9 5 (4.95%) SCCM
10 3 (2.97%) Automic
10 3 (2.97%) vRealize
11 2 (1.98%) Graylog
11 2 (1.98%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.98%) Nessus
11 2 (1.98%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.98%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.99%) OPNET
Vendors
1 50 (49.50%) VMware
2 25 (24.75%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.83%) Red Hat
4 16 (15.84%) Oracle
5 14 (13.86%) MuleSoft
6 12 (11.88%) Cisco
7 10 (9.90%) HP
8 9 (8.91%) Citrix
8 9 (8.91%) Google
9 8 (7.92%) Atlassian
9 8 (7.92%) Splunk
9 8 (7.92%) Symantec
10 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
11 4 (3.96%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (2.97%) EMC
12 3 (2.97%) IBM
12 3 (2.97%) Veritas
13 2 (1.98%) Commvault
13 2 (1.98%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.98%) Sophos