Puppet Contracts in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 378 358
Rank change year-on-year +79 -20 -74
Contract jobs citing Puppet 192 184 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.49% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.84% 3.96% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 139 228
10th Percentile £360 £450 £468
25th Percentile £453 £496 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -4.58% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £718 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £571 £600
% change year-on-year -3.72% -4.79% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £69.40
25th Percentile - £46.25 -
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.10% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -39.10% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,967 4,645 7,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.80% 12.41% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,665 3,375 5,134
10th Percentile £305 £299 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -0.74% -6.12% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 96 160
10th Percentile £21.39 £15.83 £18.48
25th Percentile £26.60 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £54.18
Median % change year-on-year +72.13% -43.70% +147.49%
75th Percentile £63.58 £48.75 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.59 £71.25 £85.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% -45.22% +155.56%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Puppet in England.

Hourly rate trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London +25 83 £525 -8.70% 87
South West +75 44 £600 +3.09% 12
North of England +10 32 £400 -24.88% 20
Yorkshire -6 27 £400 -24.88% 8
South East +43 14 £575 -1.46% 17
East of England +30 8 £516 -23.52% 6
Midlands +5 6 £525 -9.79% 10
North West - 5 £402 - 12
West Midlands -3 4 £538 -7.65% 6
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 4
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (10.42%) Confluence
2 9 (4.69%) Apache
2 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
3 2 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 114 (59.38%) AWS
2 59 (30.73%) Azure
3 34 (17.71%) GitHub
4 32 (16.67%) GCP
5 31 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (15.10%) OpenShift
7 17 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.77%) PaaS
8 13 (6.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.25%) IaaS
10 11 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (5.73%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (3.65%) Route 53
13 5 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.60%) AWS KMS
13 5 (2.60%) Serverless
14 4 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 54 (28.13%) DNS
2 53 (27.60%) Firewall
3 45 (23.44%) TCP/IP
4 29 (15.10%) DHCP
5 26 (13.54%) HTTP
6 23 (11.98%) VPN
7 10 (5.21%) Network Security
8 9 (4.69%) SMTP
9 8 (4.17%) Internet
10 7 (3.65%) SAN
11 6 (3.13%) SSH
12 5 (2.60%) Multicast
13 4 (2.08%) BGP
13 4 (2.08%) HSRP
13 4 (2.08%) IGMP
13 4 (2.08%) OSPF
13 4 (2.08%) SNMP
13 4 (2.08%) SSL
13 4 (2.08%) VRRP
14 3 (1.56%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.69%) Big Data
4 8 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.65%) MySQL
6 6 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.60%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.56%) Hazelcast
8 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.56%) Redis
9 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (40.63%) Jenkins
2 63 (32.81%) Git
3 44 (22.92%) GitLab
4 27 (14.06%) JIRA
5 19 (9.90%) Bitbucket
6 14 (7.29%) Maven
6 14 (7.29%) Postman
7 10 (5.21%) Artifactory
8 8 (4.17%) Subversion
9 7 (3.65%) Selenium
10 6 (3.13%) Gradle
10 6 (3.13%) Vagrant
11 4 (2.08%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.08%) HP UFT
11 4 (2.08%) IntelliJ
11 4 (2.08%) JUnit
11 4 (2.08%) NetBeans
11 4 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.56%) JMeter
General
1 38 (19.79%) Finance
2 28 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.29%) Banking
6 8 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.56%) Electronics
8 3 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Marketing
8 3 (1.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Military
9 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (17.19%) Senior
3 26 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.42%) Linux Engineer
5 17 (8.85%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Architect
7 13 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Network Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Administrator
10 10 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.69%) Lead
11 9 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.33%) REST
3 11 (5.73%) SOAP
4 10 (5.21%) Kafka
5 9 (4.69%) Node.js
6 7 (3.65%) J2EE
6 7 (3.65%) Spring
6 7 (3.65%) YAML
7 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.13%) Web Services
8 5 (2.60%) LDAP
9 4 (2.08%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.08%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.08%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.08%) JSON
9 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.08%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.08%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.56%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.56%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.81%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.25%) Clustering
3 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.73%) PKI
4 6 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.13%) Replication
5 5 (2.60%) EMC VMAX
5 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.56%) Blog
7 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.56%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 127 (66.15%) Linux
2 69 (35.94%) Windows
3 40 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (18.75%) Windows Server
5 21 (10.94%) Unix
6 13 (6.77%) CentOS
7 8 (4.17%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.13%) Solaris
9 5 (2.60%) AIX
9 5 (2.60%) Debian
10 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (1.56%) SUSE
11 3 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.56%) VMS
12 2 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.04%) Rocky
13 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (51.04%) DevOps
2 87 (45.31%) Configuration Management
3 70 (36.46%) Containerisation
4 68 (35.42%) CI/CD
5 55 (28.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (22.92%) Agile
7 42 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (21.35%) Deployment Automation
9 29 (15.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (14.06%) Service Management
11 25 (13.02%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (12.50%) Migration
13 23 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (9.38%) Microservices
15 16 (8.33%) High Availability
15 16 (8.33%) Validation
16 15 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence
16 15 (7.81%) Test Automation
17 14 (7.29%) Data Management
18 13 (6.77%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (71.88%) Python
2 75 (39.06%) Bash
3 67 (34.90%) PowerShell
4 37 (19.27%) Java
5 15 (7.81%) Shell Script
6 12 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.25%) Perl
7 11 (5.73%) Go
7 11 (5.73%) Ruby
8 9 (4.69%) C++
8 9 (4.69%) Groovy
9 8 (4.17%) SQL
10 5 (2.60%) C#
10 5 (2.60%) PHP
11 4 (2.08%) Bicep
12 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.52%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 66 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 17 (8.85%) Degree
5 15 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.29%) CCNP
7 13 (6.77%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.73%) RHCE
9 10 (5.21%) OCA
9 10 (5.21%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (5.21%) RHCA
9 10 (5.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.56%) CCNA
13 2 (1.04%) CCIE
14 1 (0.52%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) QA
2 7 (3.65%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.56%) SLA
4 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (42.19%) Docker
2 60 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.02%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.29%) Active Directory
5 13 (6.77%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (5.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 9 (4.69%) BitLocker
7 9 (4.69%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (4.69%) Terminal Services
8 5 (2.60%) VirtualBox
9 4 (2.08%) iptables
10 3 (1.56%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 159 (82.81%) Ansible
2 101 (52.60%) Terraform
3 86 (44.79%) Kubernetes
4 70 (36.46%) Progress Chef
5 25 (13.02%) Grafana
5 25 (13.02%) Prometheus
6 22 (11.46%) vCenter Server
7 17 (8.85%) Nagios
8 13 (6.77%) Salt
9 9 (4.69%) vMotion
10 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.60%) Istio
11 5 (2.60%) SCCM
11 5 (2.60%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.08%) Packer
13 3 (1.56%) Cacti
13 3 (1.56%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.56%) Graylog
13 3 (1.56%) Rundeck
13 3 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (38.02%) VMware
2 42 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 31 (16.15%) Microsoft
4 25 (13.02%) Oracle
5 20 (10.42%) Cisco
6 17 (8.85%) Google
7 16 (8.33%) MuleSoft
8 15 (7.81%) Splunk
9 11 (5.73%) HP
10 10 (5.21%) Citrix
11 9 (4.69%) Symantec
12 8 (4.17%) Atlassian
12 8 (4.17%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.60%) EMC
13 5 (2.60%) SAP
13 5 (2.60%) Veritas
14 4 (2.08%) Arista
14 4 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (2.08%) Fortinet
14 4 (2.08%) New Relic
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