Puppet Contracts in Sheffield

Puppet
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 41 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Puppet 9 22 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.82% 5.80% 0.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.49% 20.95% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 3
10th Percentile £341 - £524
25th Percentile £354 £507 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £540 £638
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% -15.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £390 £622 £672
90th Percentile £457 £645 £681
South Yorkshire median daily rate £369 £540 £638
% change year-on-year -31.62% -15.29% +25.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 105 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 33.23% 27.70% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 66 67
10th Percentile £358 £305 £463
25th Percentile £388 £430 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -19.37% +20.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £670 £641 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £470 £610
% change year-on-year +6.38% -22.95% +16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -6.32%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Sheffield

Puppet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Puppet in Sheffield

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in Sheffield

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Vagrant
2 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) TestNG
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) NetBackup Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (22.22%) pytest
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Change Management
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Key Management
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
4 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (11.11%) Korn
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VirtualBox
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 2 (22.22%) vRealize
5 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) 3PAR
2 2 (22.22%) Brocade
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Commvault
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Sterling