Puppet Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Puppet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 243 271 275
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Puppet 61 74 209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.98% 4.49% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 157
10th Percentile £395 £468 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £653 £646 £675
90th Percentile £700 £735 £723
UK median daily rate £575 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £61.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +55.10% -16.10% +32.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Puppet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Puppet trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Puppet.

Puppet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Puppet over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Puppet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Puppet.

Puppet hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (62.30%) AWS
2 26 (42.62%) Azure
3 18 (29.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (27.87%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (14.75%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (13.11%) GCP
8 7 (11.48%) Route 53
9 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (9.84%) GitHub
10 4 (6.56%) Kong
11 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
11 3 (4.92%) Serverless
12 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 2 (3.28%) Datadog
12 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.28%) NuGet
12 2 (3.28%) PaaS
13 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.79%) DNS
2 12 (19.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.03%) Firewall
4 10 (16.39%) HTTP
5 7 (11.48%) Internet
5 7 (11.48%) VPN
6 4 (6.56%) SSH
7 3 (4.92%) DHCP
8 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.23%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.92%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.92%) Redis
6 2 (3.28%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (44.26%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.67%) Git
3 11 (18.03%) GitLab
4 6 (9.84%) Maven
5 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket
5 5 (8.20%) Selenium
6 4 (6.56%) JUnit
7 3 (4.92%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (4.92%) Gradle
7 3 (4.92%) HP UFT
7 3 (4.92%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.92%) JIRA
7 3 (4.92%) NetBeans
7 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.92%) Subversion
8 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.28%) JMeter
9 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.64%) Mockito
9 1 (1.64%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 12 (19.67%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (18.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (8.20%) Architect
8 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
8 5 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) DevOps Specialist
9 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) CyberArk Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (11.48%) Spring
3 6 (9.84%) J2EE
3 6 (9.84%) Kafka
4 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.56%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.92%) .NET
6 3 (4.92%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.92%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.92%) Spring Integration
6 3 (4.92%) Spring MVC
6 3 (4.92%) Web Services
7 2 (3.28%) Ajax
7 2 (3.28%) Bootstrap
7 2 (3.28%) CSS
7 2 (3.28%) HTML
7 2 (3.28%) HTML5
7 2 (3.28%) jQuery
7 2 (3.28%) Node.js
7 2 (3.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Insider Threat
3 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.64%) Clustering
4 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (68.85%) Linux
2 16 (26.23%) Windows
3 10 (16.39%) Unix
4 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.20%) AIX
6 4 (6.56%) CentOS
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.28%) Solaris
8 2 (3.28%) SUSE
9 1 (1.64%) HPUX
9 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Configuration Management
1 31 (50.82%) DevOps
2 27 (44.26%) Containerisation
3 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
4 23 (37.70%) Deployment Automation
5 22 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (29.51%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (16.39%) Agile
10 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Microservices
11 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
12 7 (11.48%) Cost Management
13 6 (9.84%) Mentoring
13 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
14 5 (8.20%) Continuous Deployment
14 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (8.20%) High Availability
14 5 (8.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) Python
2 32 (52.46%) Bash
3 23 (37.70%) PowerShell
4 9 (14.75%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) Perl
6 5 (8.20%) Ruby
7 4 (6.56%) C#
7 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.64%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.64%) Korn
9 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) SC Cleared
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) CCNP
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.64%) OCA
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.64%) RHCA
4 1 (1.64%) RHCE
4 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 30 (49.18%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 53 (86.89%) Ansible
2 45 (73.77%) Progress Chef
3 38 (62.30%) Terraform
4 29 (47.54%) Kubernetes
5 20 (32.79%) Grafana
6 19 (31.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.92%) Control-M
7 3 (4.92%) Istio
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.92%) Rundeck
7 3 (4.92%) SCCM
8 2 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.64%) Automic
9 1 (1.64%) Nagios
9 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.64%) Packer
9 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Red Hat
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.11%) VMware
4 3 (4.92%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (4.92%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.92%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Commvault
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.64%) Tenable
6 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.64%) Veritas