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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 379 301
Rank change year-on-year -160 -78 -123
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 390 905 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.86% 1.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.92% 5.85% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 299 522 1,089
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,790 £57,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,150 £100,000
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 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -117 368 £70,576 -2.65% 99
UK excluding London -116 255 £60,000 -14.29% 62
Work from Home -68 151 £72,500 -3.33% 57
South West +22 139 £52,500 -27.59% 18
London -33 131 £75,000 - 46
South East -34 43 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North of England -38 36 £52,500 -19.23% 10
North West -39 20 £52,500 -8.70% 3
Yorkshire +58 15 £63,804 -8.85% 5
East of England +1 13 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Scotland -87 10 £67,788 -9.62% 7
Wales +8 7 £50,685 - 2
Midlands -13 7 £87,500 +29.63% 7
East Midlands -13 5 £87,500 +9.38% 2
Northern Ireland +33 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands +4 2 £80,000 +18.52% 5
North East -6 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 32 (8.21%) Apache
2 28 (7.18%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.64%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.56%) nginx
5 8 (2.05%) Confluence
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.03%) Drupal
7 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.77%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 265 (67.95%) AWS
2 197 (50.51%) Azure
3 94 (24.10%) OpenShift
4 79 (20.26%) GCP
5 49 (12.56%) SaaS
6 46 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (10.00%) Serverless
8 38 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (8.97%) IaaS
10 34 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (8.46%) GitHub
12 30 (7.69%) Datadog
13 29 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (7.44%) PaaS
14 26 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (5.90%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (3.59%) Azure AKS
17 11 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (2.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 77 (19.74%) DNS
2 57 (14.62%) TCP/IP
3 51 (13.08%) DHCP
3 51 (13.08%) HTTP
4 45 (11.54%) Firewall
5 24 (6.15%) AMQP
6 19 (4.87%) VPN
7 18 (4.62%) SNMP
8 17 (4.36%) VSAN
8 17 (4.36%) WAN
9 15 (3.85%) LAN
9 15 (3.85%) OSPF
10 14 (3.59%) Internet
11 13 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (3.08%) SSL
13 11 (2.82%) BGP
14 10 (2.56%) IPsec
14 10 (2.56%) tcpdump
15 9 (2.31%) Multicast
16 8 (2.05%) GLBP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.74%) Big Data
2 33 (8.46%) MySQL
3 25 (6.41%) Hadoop
4 24 (6.15%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (4.87%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.08%) MariaDB
7 12 (3.08%) Redis
8 11 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.54%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.03%) Power BI
13 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 97 (24.87%) Git
2 93 (23.85%) Jenkins
3 56 (14.36%) GitLab
4 22 (5.64%) Bitbucket
5 13 (3.33%) Subversion
6 12 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (2.56%) JIRA
7 10 (2.56%) Selenium
7 10 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.31%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.05%) Maven
10 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.03%) JUnit
13 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
13 3 (0.77%) TestNG
13 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
13 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
14 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 51 (13.08%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 38 (9.74%) Finance
4 29 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.15%) Banking
6 19 (4.87%) Retail
7 17 (4.36%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.54%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.28%) Marketing
13 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.77%) Advertising
14 3 (0.77%) Law
14 3 (0.77%) Legal
15 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.26%) Games
16 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (27.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (23.08%) Senior
3 70 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (13.33%) Lead
5 43 (11.03%) Architect
6 41 (10.51%) Linux Engineer
7 39 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 39 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
14 24 (6.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 24 (6.15%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 24 (6.15%) Software Engineer
15 22 (5.64%) AWS Architect
16 19 (4.87%) Cloud Architect
17 18 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.46%) React
2 32 (8.21%) Node.js
3 30 (7.69%) REST
4 26 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (6.15%) AngularJS
5 24 (6.15%) gRPC
5 24 (6.15%) Material-UI
5 24 (6.15%) OpenAPI
5 24 (6.15%) Spring
5 24 (6.15%) Spring Boot
5 24 (6.15%) Swagger
6 21 (5.38%) .NET
6 21 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (3.59%) YAML
8 12 (3.08%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.82%) XML
10 10 (2.56%) HTML
11 9 (2.31%) OAuth
12 8 (2.05%) 802.1X
13 6 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.85%) Public Cloud
3 47 (12.05%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 19 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (4.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (4.10%) Clustering
9 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.79%) PKI
10 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.54%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.51%) Life Science
15 1 (0.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 282 (72.31%) Linux
2 134 (34.36%) Windows
3 133 (34.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (15.64%) CentOS
5 38 (9.74%) Unix
6 29 (7.44%) Debian
6 29 (7.44%) Windows Server
7 28 (7.18%) Ubuntu
8 20 (5.13%) CoreOS
9 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.54%) Mesosphere
10 6 (1.54%) Windows 10
10 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.77%) SUSE
11 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.77%) VMS
12 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (67.44%) DevOps
2 148 (37.95%) Configuration Management
3 139 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (33.33%) Agile
5 125 (32.05%) CI/CD
6 103 (26.41%) Containerisation
7 90 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 76 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.13%) Actionable Insight
10 50 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
10 50 (12.82%) Open Source
11 46 (11.79%) Microservices
12 43 (11.03%) Test Automation
12 43 (11.03%) Time Management
13 38 (9.74%) Mentoring
14 37 (9.49%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (9.23%) Scrum
15 36 (9.23%) Software Architecture
16 35 (8.97%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 280 (71.79%) Python
2 179 (45.90%) Bash
3 127 (32.56%) PowerShell
4 112 (28.72%) Java
5 55 (14.10%) Perl
6 43 (11.03%) JavaScript
7 36 (9.23%) Ruby
8 29 (7.44%) Go
9 18 (4.62%) SQL
10 15 (3.85%) C#
10 15 (3.85%) PHP
11 13 (3.33%) Korn
12 10 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.56%) TypeScript
13 9 (2.31%) Groovy
14 7 (1.79%) C++
15 4 (1.03%) Lua
15 4 (1.03%) Tcl
16 3 (0.77%) Bicep
16 3 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 150 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 109 (27.95%) DV Cleared
3 64 (16.41%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.90%) Degree
5 22 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.79%) CCNA
11 5 (1.28%) RHCE
11 5 (1.28%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.77%) CCNP
13 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.26%) MCSE
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.26%) OCP
14 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.10%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 185 (47.44%) Docker
2 83 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (14.10%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.87%) vSphere
7 13 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.05%) KVM
9 6 (1.54%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.54%) VirtualBox
10 5 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.77%) Ceph
12 3 (0.77%) Gluster
12 3 (0.77%) oVirt
13 2 (0.51%) Varnish
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) XenApp
14 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 334 (85.64%) Ansible
2 236 (60.51%) Kubernetes
3 197 (50.51%) Terraform
4 128 (32.82%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.18%) vCenter Server
6 27 (6.92%) Grafana
7 25 (6.41%) Prometheus
8 21 (5.38%) Salt
8 21 (5.38%) ZABBIX
9 20 (5.13%) Nagios
10 16 (4.10%) Consul
11 15 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (3.33%) HAProxy
13 12 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (2.82%) Packer
15 10 (2.56%) Graphite
16 9 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (2.05%) Kibana
18 6 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 127 (32.56%) Red Hat
2 94 (24.10%) VMware
3 47 (12.05%) Microsoft
4 39 (10.00%) SaltStack
5 36 (9.23%) Google
6 31 (7.95%) Cisco
7 17 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.36%) New Relic
8 14 (3.59%) TOWER Software
9 13 (3.33%) Juniper
9 13 (3.33%) Splunk
9 13 (3.33%) Sun
10 10 (2.56%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.56%) Oracle
11 9 (2.31%) Arista
12 8 (2.05%) Citrix
12 8 (2.05%) Tufin
13 6 (1.54%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.54%) Veeam
13 6 (1.54%) Zscaler