Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 393 313
Rank change year-on-year -155 -80 -114
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 389 800 2,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.84% 1.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.93% 5.82% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 287 486 957
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,875 £106,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,899 13,744 31,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 14.50% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,032 8,785 14,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +5.45%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Salary trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -110 369 £70,000 -3.11% 97
UK excluding London -140 259 £60,000 -12.73% 54
South West -4 139 £52,500 -25.00% 13
Work from Home -79 135 £70,000 -6.67% 52
London -19 126 £75,000 - 43
South East -59 48 £65,000 - 16
North of England -56 34 £52,500 -22.22% 10
North West -62 22 £52,500 -19.23% 4
East of England -10 14 £63,750 +34.21% 7
Yorkshire +22 11 £42,894 -37.61% 4
Scotland -92 9 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Midlands -23 7 £87,500 +29.63% 7
Wales -1 6 £50,685 - 2
East Midlands -11 5 £87,500 -12.50% 2
Northern Ireland +22 3 £70,000 -6.67%
West Midlands -26 2 £80,000 +18.52% 5
North East -14 1 - - 2

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (11.05%) Apache
2 33 (8.48%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.66%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.60%) nginx
5 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.54%) JBoss
7 5 (1.29%) Confluence
8 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (1.03%) Drupal
9 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 267 (68.64%) AWS
2 203 (52.19%) Azure
3 103 (26.48%) OpenShift
4 87 (22.37%) GCP
5 53 (13.62%) SaaS
6 48 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.05%) Serverless
8 41 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (10.54%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (8.23%) Datadog
10 28 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (7.20%) IaaS
11 27 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (6.17%) PaaS
13 22 (5.66%) GitHub
14 21 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (4.37%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.60%) Azure AKS
17 13 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 77 (19.79%) DNS
2 62 (15.94%) TCP/IP
3 61 (15.68%) HTTP
4 56 (14.40%) DHCP
5 42 (10.80%) Firewall
6 29 (7.46%) AMQP
7 18 (4.63%) VPN
8 17 (4.37%) VSAN
8 17 (4.37%) WAN
9 16 (4.11%) SNMP
9 16 (4.11%) SSL
10 15 (3.86%) LAN
11 13 (3.34%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (3.34%) OSPF
12 12 (3.08%) Internet
13 11 (2.83%) tcpdump
14 10 (2.57%) BGP
14 10 (2.57%) IPsec
15 8 (2.06%) EIGRP
15 8 (2.06%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.31%) Big Data
2 31 (7.97%) Hadoop
2 31 (7.97%) MySQL
3 29 (7.46%) Cloudera CDH
4 21 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (4.37%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.08%) MariaDB
8 11 (2.83%) Redis
9 10 (2.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.54%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.03%) Power BI
13 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 98 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 93 (23.91%) Git
3 61 (15.68%) GitLab
4 21 (5.40%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (2.57%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.31%) Subversion
7 8 (2.06%) Maven
7 8 (2.06%) Selenium
7 8 (2.06%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.80%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.54%) JIRA
10 5 (1.29%) JUnit
11 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.77%) TestNG
11 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 67 (17.22%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.37%) Aerospace
3 34 (8.74%) Finance
4 30 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.14%) Banking
6 17 (4.37%) Retail
7 15 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.54%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Automotive
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (27.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (25.19%) Senior
3 68 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (12.08%) Lead
5 45 (11.57%) Architect
6 43 (11.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (10.54%) Linux Engineer
8 36 (9.25%) Senior DevOps
8 36 (9.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 31 (7.97%) Software Engineer
10 29 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
10 29 (7.46%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 29 (7.46%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (5.66%) AWS Architect
12 22 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (4.37%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (4.37%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.28%) React
2 37 (9.51%) Node.js
3 34 (8.74%) REST
4 33 (8.48%) RabbitMQ
5 30 (7.71%) Spring
5 30 (7.71%) Spring Boot
6 29 (7.46%) AngularJS
6 29 (7.46%) gRPC
6 29 (7.46%) Material-UI
6 29 (7.46%) OpenAPI
6 29 (7.46%) Swagger
7 21 (5.40%) .NET
8 19 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (3.34%) HTML
9 13 (3.34%) OAuth
9 13 (3.34%) YAML
10 11 (2.83%) Keycloak
10 11 (2.83%) XML
11 10 (2.57%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.06%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.60%) Public Cloud
3 36 (9.25%) Linux Command Line
4 26 (6.68%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.60%) Clustering
8 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.29%) PKI
10 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 282 (72.49%) Linux
2 144 (37.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 128 (32.90%) Windows
4 67 (17.22%) CentOS
5 38 (9.77%) Unix
6 35 (9.00%) Debian
7 34 (8.74%) Ubuntu
8 24 (6.17%) Windows Server
9 19 (4.88%) CoreOS
10 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.54%) Mesosphere
11 6 (1.54%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.77%) VMS
13 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (67.10%) DevOps
2 154 (39.59%) Configuration Management
3 134 (34.45%) Agile
4 123 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (28.79%) CI/CD
6 111 (28.53%) Containerisation
7 92 (23.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (15.94%) Open Source
10 60 (15.42%) Collaborative Working
11 55 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
11 55 (14.14%) Microservices
12 42 (10.80%) Time Management
13 40 (10.28%) Mentoring
13 40 (10.28%) Scrum
13 40 (10.28%) Software Architecture
14 38 (9.77%) Kanban
15 36 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
15 36 (9.25%) Software Engineering
16 33 (8.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 279 (71.72%) Python
2 178 (45.76%) Bash
3 120 (30.85%) PowerShell
4 114 (29.31%) Java
5 49 (12.60%) Perl
6 48 (12.34%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.74%) Ruby
8 23 (5.91%) Go
9 19 (4.88%) SQL
10 16 (4.11%) PHP
11 15 (3.86%) C#
11 15 (3.86%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.83%) Korn
13 10 (2.57%) C++
14 9 (2.31%) TypeScript
15 8 (2.06%) Groovy
16 5 (1.29%) C
17 4 (1.03%) Lua
17 4 (1.03%) Tcl
18 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 156 (40.10%) Security Cleared
2 109 (28.02%) DV Cleared
3 78 (20.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.94%) Degree
5 24 (6.17%) AWS Certification
6 20 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.06%) RHCE
11 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.80%) CCNA
12 5 (1.29%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.77%) Linux+ Certification
14 2 (0.51%) CCNP
14 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.86%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 181 (46.53%) Docker
2 92 (23.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (14.40%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.88%) vSphere
5 18 (4.63%) Active Directory
5 18 (4.63%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.83%) KVM
8 7 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.80%) VirtualBox
9 6 (1.54%) XenApp
9 6 (1.54%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (1.29%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.77%) Ceph
11 3 (0.77%) Gluster
11 3 (0.77%) oVirt
12 2 (0.51%) Varnish
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 330 (84.83%) Ansible
2 242 (62.21%) Kubernetes
3 194 (49.87%) Terraform
4 133 (34.19%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.94%) Prometheus
6 26 (6.68%) Grafana
6 26 (6.68%) vCenter Server
7 20 (5.14%) ZABBIX
8 19 (4.88%) Nagios
9 16 (4.11%) Consul
9 16 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (3.34%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (2.83%) HAProxy
12 10 (2.57%) Packer
13 9 (2.31%) Salt
14 8 (2.06%) Graphite
15 7 (1.80%) Kibana
16 6 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 138 (35.48%) Red Hat
2 103 (26.48%) VMware
3 44 (11.31%) Google
4 43 (11.05%) Microsoft
4 43 (11.05%) SaltStack
5 31 (7.97%) Cisco
6 18 (4.63%) New Relic
6 18 (4.63%) Splunk
7 16 (4.11%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.34%) Juniper
8 13 (3.34%) Oracle
9 11 (2.83%) Citrix
9 11 (2.83%) TOWER Software
10 10 (2.57%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.06%) Arista
11 8 (2.06%) Tufin
12 7 (1.80%) ForgeRock
12 7 (1.80%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.29%) Sun
13 5 (1.29%) Veeam