Puppet Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Puppet
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 39 55
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing Puppet 22 20 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.54% 4.37% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.79% 17.39% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 1
10th Percentile £358 £462 -
25th Percentile £380 £500 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £622 £675
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -7.85% +35.00%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £647 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £622 £500
% change year-on-year -25.64% +24.40% -6.98%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 172 115 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 27.65% 25.11% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 79 69
10th Percentile £330 £395 £224
25th Percentile £406 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £561 £611 £675
90th Percentile £643 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in South Yorkshire

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in South Yorkshire

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Sheffield -11 22 £450 -27.65% 1
Puppet
Yorkshire

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (13.64%) Apache
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) CICS
3 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (77.27%) Firewall
2 16 (72.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) FCoE
3 1 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) Multicast
3 1 (4.55%) NAS
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Hive
1 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
1 3 (13.64%) HBase
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
2 16 (72.73%) Postman
3 12 (54.55%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
2 11 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (45.45%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (40.91%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.55%) NetBackup Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Solaris
4 4 (18.18%) Unix
5 3 (13.64%) AIX
5 3 (13.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (4.55%) CentOS
6 1 (4.55%) MVS
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.55%) SUSE
6 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Configuration Management
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) Data Management
4 12 (54.55%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (27.27%) Problem Management
7 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) B2B
8 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.64%) Data Security
8 3 (13.64%) Migration
9 2 (9.09%) API Development
9 2 (9.09%) Data Migration
9 2 (9.09%) Security Hardening
10 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
10 1 (4.55%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Ruby
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (13.64%) HDFS
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) KVM
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
4 1 (4.55%) SRDF
4 1 (4.55%) VirtualBox
4 1 (4.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Ansible
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (31.82%) SCCM
4 3 (13.64%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 16 (72.73%) MuleSoft
3 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) Commvault
6 1 (4.55%) EMC
6 1 (4.55%) F5
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) NetApp
6 1 (4.55%) Pure Storage
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (4.55%) Veritas