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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 25 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing Puppet 18 29 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.03% 7.49% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.25% 23.58% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 2
10th Percentile £351 £461 £516
25th Percentile £358 £507 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -10.64% +23.68%
75th Percentile £500 £622 £641
90th Percentile £640 £644 £669
South Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -25.71% -10.64% +23.68%

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 118 123 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.96% 31.78% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 81 64
10th Percentile £359 £375 £463
25th Percentile £389 £431 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -22.00% +23.81%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £660 £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Git
2 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (50.00%) Postman
4 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (16.67%) Vagrant
4 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (11.11%) Selenium
5 2 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
1 6 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) NetBackup Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (11.11%) pytest
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.56%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Unix
4 4 (22.22%) AIX
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 3 (16.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Configuration Management
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) Data Management
5 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
5 5 (27.78%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (22.22%) Change Management
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 2 (11.11%) B2B
8 2 (11.11%) BDD
8 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (11.11%) Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
8 2 (11.11%) TDD
8 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (5.56%) Korn
4 1 (5.56%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) IBM Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (16.67%) VirtualBox
4 2 (11.11%) Docker
5 1 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 4 (22.22%) SCCM
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
5 2 (11.11%) vRealize
6 1 (5.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) MuleSoft
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
5 4 (22.22%) Splunk
6 2 (11.11%) 3PAR
6 2 (11.11%) Brocade
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Commvault
6 2 (11.11%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (11.11%) Veritas
7 1 (5.56%) IBM
7 1 (5.56%) IBM Sterling