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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 329 288
Rank change year-on-year +79 -41 -18
Contract jobs citing Puppet 89 65 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.32% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.61% 2.82% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 49 103
10th Percentile £350 £459 £485
25th Percentile £446 £507 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £622 £675
90th Percentile £695 £678 £700
UK median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +1.91%
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% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year - -37.09% -

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 1,932 2,303 3,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.95% 11.36% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,706 2,530
10th Percentile £226 £213 £294
25th Percentile £375 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £558
% change year-on-year +1.46% -8.15% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 71 126
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £40.05
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.09% +100.25%
75th Percentile £65.31 £48.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £83.42 £71.25 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £26.38 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.24% -49.75% +139.84%

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 21 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 21 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 +71 41 £600 -2.04% 15
North of England +1 21 £389 -25.90% 8
South East +48 14 £575 - 31
Yorkshire -11 13 £388 -26.10% 1
North West +14 8 £402 -30.93% 7
East of England +30 5 £550 -18.52% 10
Midlands +20 5 £426 -33.25% 10
Scotland +2 4 £550 -2.22% 4
West Midlands +12 3 £525 -17.65% 6
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 3
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 (17.98%) Confluence
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 53 (59.55%) AWS
2 34 (38.20%) Azure
3 23 (25.84%) OpenShift
4 12 (13.48%) GCP
5 11 (12.36%) PaaS
6 10 (11.24%) GitHub
6 10 (11.24%) IaaS
7 6 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.37%) Serverless
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon Macie
11 2 (2.25%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (2.25%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (35.96%) DNS
2 26 (29.21%) DHCP
3 19 (21.35%) Firewall
3 19 (21.35%) TCP/IP
4 17 (19.10%) HTTP
5 11 (12.36%) VPN
6 8 (8.99%) SMTP
7 7 (7.87%) SAN
8 6 (6.74%) Network Security
9 4 (4.49%) SSL
10 3 (3.37%) NAS
11 2 (2.25%) Kerberos
11 2 (2.25%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (2.25%) SSH
11 2 (2.25%) VLAN
12 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
12 1 (1.12%) SNA
12 1 (1.12%) SNMP
12 1 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.99%) Big Data
2 8 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (35.96%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.09%) Git
3 19 (21.35%) JIRA
4 16 (17.98%) Bitbucket
4 16 (17.98%) GitLab
5 7 (7.87%) Maven
5 7 (7.87%) Selenium
6 4 (4.49%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (4.49%) Gradle
6 4 (4.49%) HP UFT
6 4 (4.49%) IntelliJ
6 4 (4.49%) JUnit
6 4 (4.49%) NetBeans
6 4 (4.49%) Subversion
7 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.37%) Vagrant
7 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.25%) TestNG
General
1 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.11%) Finance
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Electronics
5 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.25%) Marketing
5 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.12%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Military
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (26.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Senior
5 8 (8.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.99%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Lead
6 7 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (4.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) REST
2 11 (12.36%) SOAP
3 5 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.62%) Web Services
4 4 (4.49%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.49%) J2EE
4 4 (4.49%) Kafka
4 4 (4.49%) LDAP
4 4 (4.49%) Node.js
4 4 (4.49%) Spring
4 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.49%) Spring Integration
4 4 (4.49%) Spring MVC
5 3 (3.37%) .NET
5 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.37%) CSS
5 3 (3.37%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.37%) HTML
5 3 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Clustering
2 9 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.11%) PKI
3 4 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.37%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (73.03%) Linux
2 47 (52.81%) Windows
3 34 (38.20%) Windows Server
4 21 (23.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.99%) Unix
6 6 (6.74%) CentOS
7 4 (4.49%) AIX
7 4 (4.49%) Solaris
7 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.37%) VMS
8 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (2.25%) Debian
9 2 (2.25%) HPUX
10 1 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) DevOps
2 34 (38.20%) Containerisation
3 28 (31.46%) Service Management
4 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
4 27 (30.34%) Configuration Management
5 26 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.72%) Agile
7 19 (21.35%) Deployment Automation
8 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (14.61%) Validation
10 11 (12.36%) Reverse Engineering
11 10 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (11.24%) NsoIT
11 10 (11.24%) System Testing
11 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.99%) ITSM
12 8 (8.99%) Machine Learning
12 8 (8.99%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 67 (75.28%) Python
2 51 (57.30%) PowerShell
3 45 (50.56%) Bash
4 23 (25.84%) Java
5 9 (10.11%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.62%) Perl
7 4 (4.49%) Ruby
8 3 (3.37%) Bicep
8 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.25%) C#
9 2 (2.25%) SQL
10 1 (1.12%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.12%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.12%) C++
10 1 (1.12%) C-shell
10 1 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 47 (52.81%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 23 (25.84%) DV Cleared
4 10 (11.24%) CCNP
4 10 (11.24%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.24%) OCA
4 10 (11.24%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (11.24%) RHCA
4 10 (11.24%) RHCE
4 10 (11.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (10.11%) Degree
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.12%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) GDPR
1 3 (3.37%) NIST
1 3 (3.37%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) NCSC
2 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (47.19%) Docker
2 37 (41.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (26.97%) Hyper-V
4 13 (14.61%) Active Directory
5 10 (11.24%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (8.99%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (8.99%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (3.37%) VirtualBox
8 2 (2.25%) KVM
9 1 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (1.12%) Firmware
9 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (80.90%) Ansible
2 38 (42.70%) Kubernetes
3 34 (38.20%) Terraform
4 32 (35.96%) Progress Chef
5 19 (21.35%) vCenter Server
6 10 (11.24%) Nagios
7 8 (8.99%) vMotion
8 6 (6.74%) Grafana
9 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.37%) Automic
10 3 (3.37%) vRealize
11 2 (2.25%) Graylog
11 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.25%) Nessus
11 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.25%) Packer
11 2 (2.25%) Salt
11 2 (2.25%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.12%) HAProxy
12 1 (1.12%) OPNET
Vendors
1 45 (50.56%) VMware
2 24 (26.97%) Red Hat
3 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
4 14 (15.73%) Oracle
5 12 (13.48%) Cisco
6 11 (12.36%) HP
7 9 (10.11%) Citrix
7 9 (10.11%) Google
8 8 (8.99%) Atlassian
8 8 (8.99%) Splunk
8 8 (8.99%) Symantec
9 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.49%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (3.37%) EMC
11 3 (3.37%) Veritas
12 2 (2.25%) Commvault
12 2 (2.25%) Dell
12 2 (2.25%) IBM
12 2 (2.25%) SAP
12 2 (2.25%) Sophos