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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 382 305
Rank change year-on-year -154 -77 -115
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 389 842 2,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.85% 1.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.95% 5.82% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 293 499 980
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,563
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £101,500 £103,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -

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 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -102 369 £70,000 -3.45% 105
UK excluding London -116 257 £60,000 -14.29% 71
Work from Home -75 142 £70,576 -5.90% 57
South West +8 140 £52,500 -26.06% 16
London -30 128 £75,000 - 55
South East -44 46 £65,000 -5.11% 31
North of England -55 33 £52,500 -22.22% 8
North West -53 21 £52,500 -12.50% 4
East of England +4 14 £63,750 +41.67% 5
Yorkshire +44 11 £42,894 -38.72% 3
Scotland -82 9 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Midlands -23 7 £87,500 +29.63% 8
Wales +3 6 £50,685 - 3
East Midlands -3 5 £87,500 -12.50%
Northern Ireland +29 3 £70,000 -6.67%
West Midlands -9 2 £80,000 +18.52% 8
North East -10 1 - - 1

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 41 (10.54%) Apache
2 32 (8.23%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.66%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.60%) nginx
5 8 (2.06%) Confluence
5 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.54%) JBoss
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.03%) Drupal
8 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 268 (68.89%) AWS
2 200 (51.41%) Azure
3 102 (26.22%) OpenShift
4 85 (21.85%) GCP
5 52 (13.37%) SaaS
6 48 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (11.31%) Serverless
8 42 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (8.48%) Datadog
11 31 (7.97%) IaaS
12 28 (7.20%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (6.68%) GitHub
14 26 (6.68%) PaaS
15 21 (5.40%) Amazon S3
16 20 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (3.60%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.31%) DNS
2 60 (15.42%) TCP/IP
3 58 (14.91%) HTTP
4 54 (13.88%) DHCP
5 43 (11.05%) Firewall
6 28 (7.20%) AMQP
7 19 (4.88%) VPN
8 17 (4.37%) SNMP
8 17 (4.37%) VSAN
8 17 (4.37%) WAN
9 16 (4.11%) SSL
10 15 (3.86%) LAN
11 14 (3.60%) OSPF
12 13 (3.34%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (3.34%) Internet
13 11 (2.83%) tcpdump
14 10 (2.57%) BGP
14 10 (2.57%) IPsec
15 9 (2.31%) IPv4
16 8 (2.06%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.05%) Big Data
2 32 (8.23%) MySQL
3 30 (7.71%) Hadoop
4 28 (7.20%) Cloudera CDH
5 21 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.63%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.08%) MariaDB
9 11 (2.83%) Redis
10 10 (2.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.54%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.03%) Power BI
14 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
15 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
16 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 102 (26.22%) Jenkins
2 94 (24.16%) Git
3 60 (15.42%) GitLab
4 24 (6.17%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.08%) Subversion
6 10 (2.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (2.57%) TeamCity
7 9 (2.31%) JIRA
7 9 (2.31%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.06%) Selenium
9 7 (1.80%) Maven
10 6 (1.54%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.29%) JUnit
12 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
12 3 (0.77%) TestNG
12 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
12 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
13 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 63 (16.20%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.85%) Aerospace
3 31 (7.97%) Finance
4 30 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.88%) Banking
6 17 (4.37%) Retail
7 15 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.08%) 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%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Automotive
14 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (27.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 96 (24.68%) Senior
3 69 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (12.34%) Lead
5 44 (11.31%) Architect
6 42 (10.80%) Linux Engineer
7 41 (10.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (9.51%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (9.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 33 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (7.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 28 (7.20%) Software Engineer
11 28 (7.20%) Systems Engineer
12 27 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (5.91%) AWS Architect
15 20 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 18 (4.63%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.03%) React
2 36 (9.25%) Node.js
3 33 (8.48%) REST
4 32 (8.23%) RabbitMQ
5 28 (7.20%) AngularJS
5 28 (7.20%) gRPC
5 28 (7.20%) Material-UI
5 28 (7.20%) OpenAPI
5 28 (7.20%) Spring
5 28 (7.20%) Spring Boot
5 28 (7.20%) Swagger
6 22 (5.66%) .NET
7 21 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (3.60%) YAML
9 13 (3.34%) HTML
9 13 (3.34%) OAuth
10 11 (2.83%) XML
11 10 (2.57%) ARM Templates
11 10 (2.57%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.06%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 52 (13.37%) Public Cloud
3 38 (9.77%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.17%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (4.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (3.60%) Clustering
9 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.29%) PKI
13 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.51%) Life Science
14 2 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 281 (72.24%) Linux
2 141 (36.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 127 (32.65%) Windows
4 66 (16.97%) CentOS
5 37 (9.51%) Unix
6 34 (8.74%) Debian
7 33 (8.48%) Ubuntu
8 23 (5.91%) 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
1 259 (66.58%) DevOps
2 154 (39.59%) Configuration Management
3 135 (34.70%) Agile
4 134 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 116 (29.82%) CI/CD
6 112 (28.79%) Containerisation
7 91 (23.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.17%) Collaborative Working
10 58 (14.91%) Open Source
11 55 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
12 53 (13.62%) Microservices
13 43 (11.05%) Time Management
14 40 (10.28%) Mentoring
15 39 (10.03%) Scrum
16 38 (9.77%) Software Architecture
17 37 (9.51%) Kanban
18 36 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (9.25%) Test Automation
19 34 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 282 (72.49%) Python
2 179 (46.02%) Bash
3 119 (30.59%) PowerShell
4 115 (29.56%) Java
5 50 (12.85%) Perl
6 48 (12.34%) JavaScript
7 31 (7.97%) Ruby
8 25 (6.43%) Go
9 19 (4.88%) SQL
10 16 (4.11%) PHP
11 15 (3.86%) C#
12 12 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.57%) Korn
14 9 (2.31%) TypeScript
15 8 (2.06%) C++
15 8 (2.06%) Groovy
16 4 (1.03%) C
16 4 (1.03%) Lua
16 4 (1.03%) Tcl
17 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 156 (40.10%) Security Cleared
2 109 (28.02%) DV Cleared
3 76 (19.54%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.68%) Degree
5 25 (6.43%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.80%) CCNA
10 7 (1.80%) RHCE
11 5 (1.29%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.51%) CCNP
12 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.51%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.26%) OCP
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.86%) QA
System Software
1 185 (47.56%) Docker
2 87 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (14.14%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 19 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (4.88%) vSphere
5 13 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.57%) KVM
7 7 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.54%) VirtualBox
9 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.29%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.03%) XenApp
10 4 (1.03%) XenDesktop
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
1 332 (85.35%) Ansible
2 246 (63.24%) Kubernetes
3 200 (51.41%) Terraform
4 134 (34.45%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.94%) vCenter Server
6 25 (6.43%) Grafana
6 25 (6.43%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.14%) Nagios
7 20 (5.14%) ZABBIX
8 17 (4.37%) Consul
9 16 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (3.86%) Salt
11 12 (3.08%) HAProxy
11 12 (3.08%) Packer
11 12 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (2.31%) Graphite
14 8 (2.06%) Kibana
15 6 (1.54%) Podman
15 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 135 (34.70%) Red Hat
2 98 (25.19%) VMware
3 42 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 42 (10.80%) SaltStack
4 41 (10.54%) Google
5 31 (7.97%) Cisco
6 17 (4.37%) New Relic
7 16 (4.11%) Fortinet
7 16 (4.11%) Splunk
8 13 (3.34%) Atlassian
8 13 (3.34%) Juniper
8 13 (3.34%) Oracle
9 11 (2.83%) TOWER Software
10 9 (2.31%) Citrix
11 8 (2.06%) Arista
11 8 (2.06%) Tufin
12 7 (1.80%) ForgeRock
12 7 (1.80%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.54%) Sun
14 5 (1.29%) Veeam