Puppet Contracts in the West Midlands

Puppet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 105 121
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +41
Contract jobs citing Puppet 3 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.053% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.41% 0.56% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £507
25th Percentile £513 £619 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £593
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +7.59% +10.23%
75th Percentile £538 £656 £646
90th Percentile - - £679
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.66%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 213 180 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.21% 9.51% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 150 194
10th Percentile £200 £206 £313
25th Percentile £297 £312 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.81% +17.78%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £675
90th Percentile £689 £651 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £13.40 £19.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.22 £25.49 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.19 £35.33 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% +90.95% +14.76%
75th Percentile £18.13 £45.16 £43.59
90th Percentile - £51.07 £66.00
England median hourly rate £27.75 £25.77 £52.32
% change year-on-year +7.70% -50.75% +143.33%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the West Midlands

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in the West Midlands

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham +7 1 - - 5
Solihull - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £525 - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos
1 2 (66.67%) VMware