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

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 386 329
Rank change year-on-year +61 -57 -42
Contract jobs citing Puppet 200 208 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.48% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.28% 3.94% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 154 283
10th Percentile £376 £450 £458
25th Percentile £463 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -4.58% +2.39%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £710 £763 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £564 £600
% change year-on-year +1.95% -6.00% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £56.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £67.75
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.10% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -39.10% -

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 4,673 5,282 8,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 12.12% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,139 3,809 6,151
10th Percentile £305 £298 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.36% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 99 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.88 £18.45
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +164.00%
75th Percentile £63.36 £51.63 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.83 £71.25 £84.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -6.98% +115.00%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +58 187 £575 +0.44% 728
UK excluding London +72 103 £575 +1.95% 560
London +40 84 £550 -4.35% 228
Work from Home +19 62 £560 -0.71% 306
South West +62 44 £600 +2.83% 76
North of England +7 33 £400 -24.88% 139
Yorkshire -6 26 £400 -24.88% 69
South East +37 14 £575 -1.20% 124
North West - 7 £402 - 62
East of England +30 5 £550 -18.52% 85
Midlands +3 5 £426 -26.89% 80
West Midlands +5 3 £525 -9.79% 45
Scotland +5 3 £550 +4.76% 23
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 35

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 18 (9.00%) Confluence
2 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) JBoss
4 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.00%) AWS
2 68 (34.00%) Azure
3 36 (18.00%) GCP
4 35 (17.50%) GitHub
5 34 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (14.50%) OpenShift
7 21 (10.50%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.50%) PaaS
11 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (6.00%) IaaS
12 8 (4.00%) Route 53
13 6 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (3.00%) Serverless
14 5 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.50%) AWS KMS
14 5 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (28.50%) DNS
2 54 (27.00%) Firewall
3 44 (22.00%) TCP/IP
4 30 (15.00%) DHCP
5 28 (14.00%) HTTP
6 23 (11.50%) VPN
7 10 (5.00%) Network Security
8 9 (4.50%) SMTP
9 8 (4.00%) Internet
9 8 (4.00%) SAN
10 7 (3.50%) SSH
11 6 (3.00%) Multicast
12 5 (2.50%) BGP
12 5 (2.50%) HSRP
12 5 (2.50%) IGMP
12 5 (2.50%) OSPF
12 5 (2.50%) SNMP
12 5 (2.50%) VRRP
13 4 (2.00%) NAS
13 4 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.50%) Big Data
4 8 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.50%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.50%) MySQL
7 3 (1.50%) Redis
7 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (40.50%) Jenkins
2 58 (29.00%) Git
3 44 (22.00%) GitLab
4 23 (11.50%) JIRA
5 17 (8.50%) Bitbucket
6 14 (7.00%) Maven
7 13 (6.50%) Postman
8 10 (5.00%) Artifactory
9 7 (3.50%) Selenium
10 6 (3.00%) Gradle
11 5 (2.50%) JUnit
11 5 (2.50%) Subversion
12 4 (2.00%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (2.00%) HP UFT
12 4 (2.00%) IntelliJ
12 4 (2.00%) NetBeans
12 4 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.50%) JMeter
13 3 (1.50%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (18.50%) Finance
2 29 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.50%) Banking
3 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.50%) Military
7 3 (1.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Electronics
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (24.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (19.00%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (7.50%) Architect
6 15 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (7.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Network Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (5.50%) Lead
11 9 (4.50%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.50%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.00%) REST
3 11 (5.50%) SOAP
4 10 (5.00%) Kafka
5 8 (4.00%) Spring
5 8 (4.00%) YAML
6 7 (3.50%) J2EE
6 7 (3.50%) Node.js
7 6 (3.00%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.00%) Web Services
8 5 (2.50%) LDAP
8 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.00%) .NET
9 4 (2.00%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.00%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.00%) JSON
9 4 (2.00%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.00%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.50%) Clustering
4 11 (5.50%) PKI
5 8 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.00%) Replication
7 5 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.50%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.00%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 133 (66.50%) Linux
2 70 (35.00%) Windows
3 40 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (19.50%) Windows Server
5 26 (13.00%) Unix
6 11 (5.50%) CentOS
7 7 (3.50%) AIX
7 7 (3.50%) Solaris
7 7 (3.50%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.50%) SUSE
9 3 (1.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (1.50%) VMS
10 2 (1.00%) Debian
10 2 (1.00%) Rocky
11 1 (0.50%) HPUX
11 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (50.50%) DevOps
2 93 (46.50%) Configuration Management
3 75 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 74 (37.00%) Containerisation
5 59 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (22.00%) Agile
6 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (21.00%) Deployment Automation
8 30 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (13.50%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (13.50%) Service Management
11 23 (11.50%) Migration
12 20 (10.00%) Microservices
13 18 (9.00%) High Availability
13 18 (9.00%) Test Automation
14 17 (8.50%) Task Automation
15 16 (8.00%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.00%) Validation
16 15 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 139 (69.50%) Python
2 82 (41.00%) Bash
3 74 (37.00%) PowerShell
4 34 (17.00%) Java
5 14 (7.00%) Ruby
5 14 (7.00%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.50%) Perl
7 10 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.50%) Groovy
9 8 (4.00%) C#
9 8 (4.00%) SQL
10 7 (3.50%) Go
11 6 (3.00%) C++
12 4 (2.00%) Bicep
13 3 (1.50%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.50%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.50%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.50%) C-shell
14 1 (0.50%) Korn
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 70 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.50%) DV Cleared
4 17 (8.50%) Degree
5 12 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.50%) CCNP
6 11 (5.50%) RHCE
7 10 (5.00%) OCA
7 10 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (5.00%) RHCA
7 10 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.00%) CCIE
13 1 (0.50%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.50%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.50%) QA
3 4 (2.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.50%) NIST
4 3 (1.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (41.50%) Docker
2 56 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
5 11 (5.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 11 (5.50%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.50%) BitLocker
6 9 (4.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (4.50%) Terminal Services
7 4 (2.00%) iptables
8 3 (1.50%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (1.50%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.50%) KVM
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 169 (84.50%) Ansible
2 104 (52.00%) Terraform
3 91 (45.50%) Kubernetes
4 74 (37.00%) Progress Chef
5 31 (15.50%) Grafana
5 31 (15.50%) Prometheus
6 20 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 16 (8.00%) Nagios
8 9 (4.50%) vMotion
9 8 (4.00%) Salt
10 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (3.00%) ZABBIX
12 5 (2.50%) Istio
13 4 (2.00%) FortiGate
13 4 (2.00%) Graylog
13 4 (2.00%) Packer
13 4 (2.00%) SCCM
14 3 (1.50%) Cacti
14 3 (1.50%) Netcool
14 3 (1.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (34.50%) VMware
2 50 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 25 (12.50%) Oracle
5 19 (9.50%) Cisco
6 18 (9.00%) Google
7 16 (8.00%) Splunk
8 15 (7.50%) MuleSoft
9 12 (6.00%) HP
10 10 (5.00%) Citrix
11 9 (4.50%) Symantec
12 8 (4.00%) Atlassian
13 7 (3.50%) ServiceNow
14 5 (2.50%) Arista
14 5 (2.50%) EMC
14 5 (2.50%) Fortinet
14 5 (2.50%) Veritas
15 4 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
16 3 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
16 3 (1.50%) CyberArk