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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 274 282
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing Puppet 58 70 202
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.79% 4.25% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 52 154
10th Percentile £402 £464 £450
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £653 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £746 £716
UK median daily rate £573 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -1.63% -3.00% +3.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £47.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.09% +37.27%

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 1,530 1,646 4,216
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.51% 10.81% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,223 3,116
10th Percentile £388 £350 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -5.83% -0.89%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £675
90th Percentile £780 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 78
10th Percentile £17.41 £21.49 £25.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £37.71 £52.81
Median hourly rate £54.50 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -28.03% +76.00%
75th Percentile £64.38 £56.88 £76.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.75 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +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 7 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 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (62.07%) AWS
2 22 (37.93%) Azure
3 19 (32.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (18.97%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (15.52%) Amazon S3
6 9 (15.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (13.79%) GCP
8 7 (12.07%) Route 53
9 6 (10.34%) GitHub
10 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.90%) Kong
12 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
12 3 (5.17%) Serverless
13 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
13 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (3.45%) NuGet
13 2 (3.45%) PaaS
14 1 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
14 1 (1.72%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.21%) DNS
2 13 (22.41%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.97%) Firewall
3 11 (18.97%) HTTP
4 8 (13.79%) Internet
5 7 (12.07%) VPN
6 4 (6.90%) SSH
7 3 (5.17%) DHCP
8 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.17%) Hazelcast
5 3 (5.17%) Redis
6 2 (3.45%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.69%) Git
3 11 (18.97%) GitLab
4 6 (10.34%) Maven
5 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket
5 5 (8.62%) Selenium
6 4 (6.90%) JUnit
7 3 (5.17%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (5.17%) Gradle
7 3 (5.17%) HP UFT
7 3 (5.17%) IntelliJ
7 3 (5.17%) JIRA
7 3 (5.17%) NetBeans
7 3 (5.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.17%) Subversion
8 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.45%) JMeter
9 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.72%) Mockito
9 1 (1.72%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (32.76%) Senior
3 13 (22.41%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (20.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Architect
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) CyberArk Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 6 (10.34%) J2EE
3 6 (10.34%) Kafka
4 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.17%) .NET
6 3 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (5.17%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.17%) Spring Integration
6 3 (5.17%) Spring MVC
6 3 (5.17%) Web Services
7 2 (3.45%) Ajax
7 2 (3.45%) Bootstrap
7 2 (3.45%) CSS
7 2 (3.45%) HTML5
7 2 (3.45%) jQuery
7 2 (3.45%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) REST
7 2 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) Insider Threat
3 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.72%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (68.97%) Linux
2 14 (24.14%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.90%) CentOS
5 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.45%) AIX
7 2 (3.45%) Solaris
7 2 (3.45%) SUSE
8 1 (1.72%) HPUX
8 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) DevOps
2 29 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 27 (46.55%) Containerisation
4 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 24 (41.38%) Deployment Automation
6 22 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (32.76%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.52%) Agile
10 8 (13.79%) Cost Management
10 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (13.79%) Microservices
10 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
11 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (10.34%) Task Automation
12 5 (8.62%) Continuous Deployment
12 5 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.62%) High Availability
12 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) Python
2 32 (55.17%) Bash
3 22 (37.93%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.52%) Java
5 7 (12.07%) Perl
6 5 (8.62%) Ruby
7 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.17%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) C++
9 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.72%) Korn
10 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (43.10%) SC Cleared
1 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.72%) CCNP
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.72%) OCA
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.72%) RHCA
4 1 (1.72%) RHCE
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 27 (46.55%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 50 (86.21%) Ansible
2 43 (74.14%) Progress Chef
3 38 (65.52%) Terraform
4 26 (44.83%) Kubernetes
5 21 (36.21%) Grafana
6 20 (34.48%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.17%) Control-M
7 3 (5.17%) Istio
7 3 (5.17%) Rundeck
8 2 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.72%) Automic
9 1 (1.72%) Nagios
9 1 (1.72%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.72%) Packer
9 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (5.17%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (5.17%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Commvault
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Tenable
6 1 (1.72%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.72%) Veritas