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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 332 290
Rank change year-on-year +88 -42 -15
Contract jobs citing Puppet 92 67 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.32% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.88% 2.85% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 51 113
10th Percentile £356 £463 £456
25th Percentile £441 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £675
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £59.81
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.09% +37.27%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £61.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +55.10% -16.10% +32.73%

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 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +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 May 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 May 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 +77 41 £600 -5.88% 15
North of England -1 20 £389 -29.47% 19
South East +56 19 £575 -1.50% 29
Yorkshire -11 12 £388 -27.14% 7
North West +16 8 £402 -30.93% 12
Scotland +14 6 £569 -5.21% 4
Midlands - 4 £326 - 8
East of England +31 3 £550 -18.52% 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
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 (17.39%) Confluence
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 52 (56.52%) AWS
2 39 (42.39%) Azure
3 23 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 12 (13.04%) PaaS
5 11 (11.96%) GCP
6 10 (10.87%) IaaS
7 8 (8.70%) GitHub
8 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.17%) NuGet
10 2 (2.17%) Serverless
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.09%) Datadog
11 1 (1.09%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.43%) DNS
2 26 (28.26%) DHCP
3 17 (18.48%) Firewall
3 17 (18.48%) HTTP
3 17 (18.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (9.78%) VPN
5 8 (8.70%) SMTP
6 7 (7.61%) SAN
7 4 (4.35%) Network Security
8 3 (3.26%) NAS
9 2 (2.17%) Kerberos
9 2 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (2.17%) SSH
9 2 (2.17%) SSL
9 2 (2.17%) VLAN
10 1 (1.09%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.09%) SNA
10 1 (1.09%) SNMP
10 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.70%) Big Data
2 8 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.09%) MySQL
5 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (31.52%) Jenkins
2 25 (27.17%) Git
3 17 (18.48%) JIRA
4 16 (17.39%) Bitbucket
5 11 (11.96%) GitLab
6 8 (8.70%) Selenium
7 7 (7.61%) Maven
8 4 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (4.35%) Gradle
8 4 (4.35%) HP UFT
8 4 (4.35%) IntelliJ
8 4 (4.35%) JUnit
8 4 (4.35%) NetBeans
8 4 (4.35%) Subversion
9 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.26%) Vagrant
9 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.17%) JMeter
General
1 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.87%) Finance
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Electronics
5 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.17%) Marketing
5 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.09%) Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Military
6 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.96%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Senior
5 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) REST
2 11 (11.96%) SOAP
3 5 (5.43%) Web Services
4 4 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.35%) J2EE
4 4 (4.35%) Kafka
4 4 (4.35%) LDAP
4 4 (4.35%) Node.js
4 4 (4.35%) Spring
4 4 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.35%) Spring Integration
4 4 (4.35%) Spring MVC
5 3 (3.26%) Ajax
5 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.26%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.26%) CSS
5 3 (3.26%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.26%) HTML
5 3 (3.26%) HTML5
5 3 (3.26%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Clustering
2 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.78%) PKI
3 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (77.17%) Linux
2 50 (54.35%) Windows
3 34 (36.96%) Windows Server
4 22 (23.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (15.22%) Unix
6 10 (10.87%) AIX
7 8 (8.70%) CentOS
8 6 (6.52%) Solaris
8 6 (6.52%) Ubuntu
9 4 (4.35%) HPUX
10 3 (3.26%) VMS
10 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.17%) Debian
12 1 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) DevOps
2 31 (33.70%) Configuration Management
3 30 (32.61%) Containerisation
3 30 (32.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (31.52%) Service Management
5 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.00%) Agile
7 22 (23.91%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.65%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.13%) Validation
10 11 (11.96%) Reverse Engineering
11 10 (10.87%) NsoIT
11 10 (10.87%) System Testing
11 10 (10.87%) Test Automation
12 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 8 (8.70%) Machine Learning
13 8 (8.70%) Software Deployment
13 8 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (68.48%) Python
2 53 (57.61%) PowerShell
3 46 (50.00%) Bash
4 23 (25.00%) Java
5 6 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.43%) Perl
7 4 (4.35%) Ruby
8 3 (3.26%) Bicep
8 3 (3.26%) C#
8 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.17%) Korn
9 2 (2.17%) SQL
10 1 (1.09%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.09%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.09%) C++
10 1 (1.09%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 47 (51.09%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.87%) CCNP
4 10 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (10.87%) OCA
4 10 (10.87%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (10.87%) RHCA
4 10 (10.87%) RHCE
4 10 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (8.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (47.83%) Docker
2 38 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (29.35%) Hyper-V
4 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
5 10 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (8.70%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (8.70%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (3.26%) VirtualBox
8 2 (2.17%) KVM
9 1 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (1.09%) Firmware
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (81.52%) Ansible
2 39 (42.39%) Kubernetes
3 37 (40.22%) Progress Chef
4 31 (33.70%) Terraform
5 19 (20.65%) vCenter Server
6 10 (10.87%) Nagios
7 8 (8.70%) vMotion
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (4.35%) SCCM
9 3 (3.26%) Automic
9 3 (3.26%) Grafana
9 3 (3.26%) vRealize
10 2 (2.17%) Graylog
10 2 (2.17%) Nessus
10 2 (2.17%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.17%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (2.17%) Packer
10 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.17%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.09%) OPNET
Vendors
1 48 (52.17%) VMware
2 26 (28.26%) Red Hat
3 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
4 14 (15.22%) Oracle
5 12 (13.04%) Cisco
5 12 (13.04%) HP
6 9 (9.78%) Citrix
6 9 (9.78%) Google
7 8 (8.70%) Atlassian
7 8 (8.70%) Symantec
8 6 (6.52%) Splunk
9 4 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (3.26%) EMC
10 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.26%) Veritas
11 2 (2.17%) Commvault
11 2 (2.17%) Dell
11 2 (2.17%) IBM
11 2 (2.17%) SAP
11 2 (2.17%) Sophos