Puppet Contracts

Puppet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 398 315
Rank change year-on-year +61 -83 -25
Contract jobs citing Puppet 188 204 486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.47% 0.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.08% 3.96% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 146 354
10th Percentile £388 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £48.88 £56.25
25th Percentile - £52.81 £60.63
Median hourly rate £95.00 £61.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -16.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile - £70.31 £78.00
90th Percentile - £74.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year - -37.09% +37.27%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +53 166 £575 -1.20% 133
UK excluding London +79 93 £575 +1.77% 78
London +3 74 £525 -12.50% 63
Work from Home +37 62 £550 -5.50% 87
South West +76 41 £600 -5.88% 14
North of England +9 21 £390 -29.28% 21
South East +52 19 £575 -1.50% 18
Yorkshire -3 13 £389 -26.95% 7
North West +10 8 £402 -30.93% 14
Scotland +10 6 £569 -5.21% 4
Midlands - 4 £326 - 8
East of England +34 3 £550 -18.52% 7
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
West Midlands - 2 - - 7

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (10.11%) Confluence
2 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.66%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 109 (57.98%) AWS
2 75 (39.89%) Azure
3 31 (16.49%) GCP
4 28 (14.89%) OpenShift
5 22 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (10.64%) GitHub
7 15 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.45%) PaaS
9 13 (6.91%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.38%) IaaS
10 12 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.26%) Route 53
13 5 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.66%) Kong
13 5 (2.66%) Serverless
14 4 (2.13%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (26.60%) DNS
2 39 (20.74%) Firewall
3 29 (15.43%) DHCP
4 28 (14.89%) TCP/IP
5 27 (14.36%) HTTP
6 19 (10.11%) VPN
7 10 (5.32%) SAN
8 9 (4.79%) SMTP
9 8 (4.26%) Network Security
10 7 (3.72%) Internet
10 7 (3.72%) SSH
11 6 (3.19%) Multicast
11 6 (3.19%) NAS
12 5 (2.66%) BGP
12 5 (2.66%) HSRP
12 5 (2.66%) IGMP
12 5 (2.66%) OSPF
12 5 (2.66%) SNMP
12 5 (2.66%) VRRP
13 3 (1.60%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.96%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.32%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.79%) Big Data
3 9 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.66%) MySQL
5 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.60%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (1.60%) Hazelcast
6 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.60%) Redis
6 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 45 (23.94%) Git
3 34 (18.09%) GitLab
4 22 (11.70%) JIRA
5 20 (10.64%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.85%) Maven
7 8 (4.26%) Selenium
8 7 (3.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.66%) JUnit
9 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.13%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (2.13%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.13%) Gradle
10 4 (2.13%) HP UFT
10 4 (2.13%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.13%) JMeter
10 4 (2.13%) NetBeans
10 4 (2.13%) Subversion
10 4 (2.13%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
General
1 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.43%) Finance
3 20 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.57%) Banking
5 15 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Military
7 3 (1.60%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Electronics
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (27.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (17.55%) Senior
4 21 (11.17%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (9.57%) Senior DevOps
6 17 (9.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.98%) Architect
9 14 (7.45%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Network Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (4.26%) Lead
12 8 (4.26%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) Infrastructure Support
13 7 (3.72%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.45%) REST
3 12 (6.38%) Kafka
4 11 (5.85%) SOAP
5 9 (4.79%) YAML
6 8 (4.26%) Spring
6 8 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.72%) J2EE
8 6 (3.19%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.19%) LDAP
8 6 (3.19%) Web Services
9 5 (2.66%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.66%) Node.js
10 4 (2.13%) .NET
10 4 (2.13%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.13%) JSON
10 4 (2.13%) Spring Integration
10 4 (2.13%) Spring MVC
11 3 (1.60%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (1.60%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.98%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.91%) Clustering
4 11 (5.85%) PKI
5 8 (4.26%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.19%) Replication
7 5 (2.66%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 133 (70.74%) Linux
2 70 (37.23%) Windows
3 38 (20.21%) Windows Server
4 37 (19.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (14.36%) Unix
6 15 (7.98%) AIX
6 15 (7.98%) CentOS
7 10 (5.32%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.26%) Solaris
9 5 (2.66%) HPUX
10 4 (2.13%) VMS
10 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.06%) Debian
11 2 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.06%) Rocky
11 2 (1.06%) SUSE
12 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (46.81%) DevOps
2 84 (44.68%) Configuration Management
3 69 (36.70%) Containerisation
4 63 (33.51%) CI/CD
5 46 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (22.87%) Deployment Automation
8 37 (19.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (18.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 31 (16.49%) Agile
11 29 (15.43%) Service Management
12 26 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (11.70%) Test Automation
14 20 (10.64%) High Availability
15 18 (9.57%) Microservices
15 18 (9.57%) Task Automation
16 15 (7.98%) DevSecOps
16 15 (7.98%) Validation
17 12 (6.38%) Mentoring
18 11 (5.85%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (64.36%) Python
2 88 (46.81%) Bash
3 73 (38.83%) PowerShell
4 36 (19.15%) Java
5 15 (7.98%) Perl
6 14 (7.45%) Ruby
6 14 (7.45%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.79%) SQL
8 6 (3.19%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.66%) C#
10 4 (2.13%) Bicep
10 4 (2.13%) Go
10 4 (2.13%) PHP
11 3 (1.60%) R
11 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.06%) C++
12 2 (1.06%) Korn
13 1 (0.53%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.23%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.04%) Degree
5 12 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.85%) CCNP
6 11 (5.85%) RHCE
7 10 (5.32%) OCA
7 10 (5.32%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (5.32%) RHCA
7 10 (5.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.06%) CCIE
13 1 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) NIST
2 5 (2.66%) QA
3 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) COBIT
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 88 (46.81%) Docker
2 49 (26.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (16.49%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.51%) Active Directory
5 11 (5.85%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.79%) BitLocker
6 9 (4.79%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (4.79%) Terminal Services
7 5 (2.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.13%) VirtualBox
9 3 (1.60%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (1.60%) iptables
9 3 (1.60%) KVM
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.53%) Firmware
10 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 163 (86.70%) Ansible
2 93 (49.47%) Kubernetes
3 90 (47.87%) Terraform
4 87 (46.28%) Progress Chef
5 27 (14.36%) Grafana
5 27 (14.36%) Prometheus
6 20 (10.64%) vCenter Server
7 16 (8.51%) Nagios
8 9 (4.79%) vMotion
9 8 (4.26%) Packer
10 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (3.72%) Salt
10 7 (3.72%) SCCM
11 6 (3.19%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.13%) FortiGate
12 4 (2.13%) Graylog
13 3 (1.60%) Cacti
13 3 (1.60%) Netcool
13 3 (1.60%) Rundeck
13 3 (1.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (34.04%) VMware
2 49 (26.06%) Red Hat
3 30 (15.96%) Microsoft
4 24 (12.77%) Oracle
5 19 (10.11%) Cisco
5 19 (10.11%) Google
6 13 (6.91%) HP
6 13 (6.91%) Splunk
7 10 (5.32%) Citrix
8 9 (4.79%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.79%) Symantec
9 5 (2.66%) Arista
9 5 (2.66%) EMC
9 5 (2.66%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.66%) Veritas
10 4 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (2.13%) SAP
11 3 (1.60%) IBM
11 3 (1.60%) NetApp