Puppet Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Puppet
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 83 115
Rank change year-on-year -10 +32 -26
Contract jobs citing Puppet 26 23 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.67% 1.57% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.68% 8.78% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 5
10th Percentile £358 £462 -
25th Percentile £400 £549 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £622 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +24.40% -6.98%
75th Percentile £500 £628 £519
90th Percentile £616 £646 £620
England median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.42% -2.43% -4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 389 262 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.00% 17.84% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 180 188
10th Percentile £235 £300 £284
25th Percentile £378 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £16.26 - -
25th Percentile £18.15 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +91.11%
75th Percentile £110.65 - £44.50
90th Percentile £164.26 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.81% +119.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Yorkshire

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in Yorkshire

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
South Yorkshire -7 22 £450 -27.65% 2
West Yorkshire -9 3 £500 -12.09%
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) CICS
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) GitHub
1 4 (15.38%) Serverless
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (73.08%) Firewall
2 18 (69.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) FCoE
4 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) Multicast
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Hive
1 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
1 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
1 3 (11.54%) HBase
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 16 (61.54%) Postman
3 15 (57.69%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
5 2 (7.69%) JIRA
6 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.85%) JMeter
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Senior
2 11 (42.31%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (38.46%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (34.62%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead
8 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.54%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) LDAP
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (15.38%) Solaris
4 4 (15.38%) Unix
5 3 (11.54%) AIX
5 3 (11.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (3.85%) CentOS
6 1 (3.85%) MVS
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.85%) SUSE
6 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Configuration Management
2 19 (73.08%) DevOps
3 13 (50.00%) Agile
3 13 (50.00%) Data Management
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) B2B
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Data Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (11.54%) Data Security
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
8 2 (7.69%) Data Discovery
8 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
1 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (15.38%) Docker
4 3 (11.54%) HDFS
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.85%) KVM
5 1 (3.85%) NFS
5 1 (3.85%) SRDF
5 1 (3.85%) VirtualBox
5 1 (3.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (96.15%) Ansible
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (26.92%) SCCM
4 5 (19.23%) Terraform
5 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
6 3 (11.54%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (7.69%) Grafana
7 2 (7.69%) Kustomize
7 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) VMware
2 16 (61.54%) MuleSoft
3 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.54%) Splunk
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Commvault
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) EMC
7 1 (3.85%) F5
7 1 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) IBM
7 1 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (3.85%) NetApp
7 1 (3.85%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas