Puppeteer Contracts

Puppeteer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Puppeteer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Puppeteer 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 509 580 705
Rank change year-on-year +71 +125 +129
Contract jobs citing Puppeteer 11 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.005% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.022% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile £400 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £413 £570
90th Percentile - £420 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £550
% change year-on-year - -22.73% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Puppeteer falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Puppeteer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppeteer in the UK

Puppeteer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Puppeteer in the UK

Puppeteer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppeteer within the UK 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
England +63 8 £475 +18.75% 7
London +43 6 £438 +16.67% 7
UK excluding London +67 5 £425 - 2
Wales - 3 £413 -
Work from Home - 3 £400 - 5
North of England +20 2 £500 +17.65%
North West +18 2 £500 +17.65%

Puppeteer
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
2 2 (18.18%) Apigee
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Multimedia
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Software Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Automation Tester
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Node.js
1 5 (45.45%) React
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) Jest
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) PagerDuty