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

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 382 291
Rank change year-on-year -155 -91 -112
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 392 884 2,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.85% 1.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.91% 5.79% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 299 513 1,083
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,750 £45,652
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +16.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,050 £101,150
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 10,017 15,276 28,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 14.70% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,239 9,373 14,195
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,150 £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 30 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 30 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 -102 371 £70,576 -2.65% 97
UK excluding London -131 256 £60,000 -14.29% 60
Work from Home -70 149 £72,500 -3.33% 55
South West +18 141 £52,500 -27.34% 18
London -28 132 £75,000 - 46
South East -43 44 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North of England -48 34 £52,500 -19.23% 10
North West -38 20 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Yorkshire +49 13 £42,894 -38.72% 5
East of England +1 13 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Scotland -80 9 £65,000 -13.33% 7
Wales +4 7 £50,685 - 2
Midlands -22 7 £87,500 +29.63% 6
East Midlands -17 5 £87,500 +9.38% 1
Northern Ireland +28 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands 0 2 £80,000 +18.52% 5
North East -9 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 33 (8.42%) Apache
2 29 (7.40%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.61%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.55%) nginx
5 8 (2.04%) Confluence
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.02%) Drupal
7 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.77%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 270 (68.88%) AWS
2 197 (50.26%) Azure
3 95 (24.23%) OpenShift
4 81 (20.66%) GCP
5 49 (12.50%) SaaS
6 46 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (10.20%) Serverless
8 39 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (9.18%) IaaS
10 35 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (8.16%) Datadog
12 31 (7.91%) GitHub
13 30 (7.65%) PaaS
14 28 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (5.87%) Amazon S3
17 16 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (3.57%) Azure AKS
19 11 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.90%) DNS
2 57 (14.54%) TCP/IP
3 52 (13.27%) HTTP
4 51 (13.01%) DHCP
5 45 (11.48%) Firewall
6 25 (6.38%) AMQP
7 19 (4.85%) VPN
8 18 (4.59%) SNMP
9 17 (4.34%) VSAN
9 17 (4.34%) WAN
10 15 (3.83%) LAN
10 15 (3.83%) OSPF
11 14 (3.57%) Internet
12 13 (3.32%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (3.06%) SSL
14 11 (2.81%) BGP
15 10 (2.55%) IPsec
15 10 (2.55%) tcpdump
16 9 (2.30%) IPv4
16 9 (2.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.95%) Big Data
2 33 (8.42%) MySQL
3 26 (6.63%) Hadoop
4 25 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.06%) MariaDB
7 12 (3.06%) Redis
8 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.53%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.02%) Power BI
12 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 97 (24.74%) Git
2 94 (23.98%) Jenkins
3 57 (14.54%) GitLab
4 21 (5.36%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.06%) Subversion
6 11 (2.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.30%) JIRA
8 9 (2.30%) Selenium
8 9 (2.30%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.04%) Maven
10 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.02%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.02%) JUnit
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%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.20%) Aerospace
3 36 (9.18%) Finance
4 29 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.61%) Banking
6 19 (4.85%) Retail
7 16 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.53%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.26%) Automotive
15 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (27.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 89 (22.70%) Senior
3 70 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (13.01%) Lead
5 44 (11.22%) Architect
6 40 (10.20%) Linux Engineer
7 38 (9.69%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (9.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 38 (9.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 36 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 25 (6.38%) Software Engineer
14 24 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (5.87%) AWS Architect
16 20 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
17 18 (4.59%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.67%) React
2 33 (8.42%) Node.js
3 31 (7.91%) REST
4 27 (6.89%) RabbitMQ
5 25 (6.38%) AngularJS
5 25 (6.38%) gRPC
5 25 (6.38%) Material-UI
5 25 (6.38%) OpenAPI
5 25 (6.38%) Spring
5 25 (6.38%) Spring Boot
5 25 (6.38%) Swagger
6 22 (5.61%) .NET
6 22 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (3.57%) YAML
8 12 (3.06%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.81%) XML
10 10 (2.55%) HTML
11 9 (2.30%) OAuth
12 8 (2.04%) 802.1X
13 6 (1.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 55 (14.03%) Public Cloud
3 46 (11.73%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 22 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 16 (4.08%) Clustering
8 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.79%) PKI
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.51%) Life Science
13 1 (0.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 284 (72.45%) Linux
2 134 (34.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 134 (34.18%) Windows
3 62 (15.82%) CentOS
4 38 (9.69%) Unix
5 30 (7.65%) Debian
6 29 (7.40%) Ubuntu
6 29 (7.40%) Windows Server
7 20 (5.10%) CoreOS
8 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.53%) Mesosphere
9 6 (1.53%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.77%) SUSE
10 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.77%) VMS
11 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (67.35%) DevOps
2 148 (37.76%) Configuration Management
3 141 (35.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (33.16%) Agile
5 123 (31.38%) CI/CD
6 108 (27.55%) Containerisation
7 92 (23.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 77 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.05%) Actionable Insight
10 52 (13.27%) Open Source
11 51 (13.01%) Collaborative Working
12 48 (12.24%) Microservices
13 43 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 43 (10.97%) Time Management
14 39 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 37 (9.44%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (9.44%) Scrum
16 36 (9.18%) Software Architecture
17 35 (8.93%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 282 (71.94%) Python
2 179 (45.66%) Bash
3 126 (32.14%) PowerShell
4 113 (28.83%) Java
5 54 (13.78%) Perl
6 44 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.42%) Ruby
8 28 (7.14%) Go
9 17 (4.34%) SQL
10 15 (3.83%) C#
10 15 (3.83%) PHP
11 12 (3.06%) Korn
12 10 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.55%) TypeScript
13 9 (2.30%) Groovy
14 7 (1.79%) C++
15 4 (1.02%) Lua
15 4 (1.02%) Tcl
16 3 (0.77%) Bicep
16 3 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 153 (39.03%) Security Cleared
2 111 (28.32%) DV Cleared
3 66 (16.84%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.12%) Degree
5 17 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.79%) CCNA
10 5 (1.28%) RHCE
10 5 (1.28%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.77%) CCNP
12 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.26%) MCSE
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.26%) OCP
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.83%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 186 (47.45%) Docker
2 83 (21.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (14.03%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.38%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.10%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.85%) vSphere
7 13 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.04%) KVM
9 6 (1.53%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.53%) VirtualBox
10 5 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (1.02%) 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
1 337 (85.97%) Ansible
2 239 (60.97%) Kubernetes
3 199 (50.77%) Terraform
4 128 (32.65%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 26 (6.63%) Grafana
7 23 (5.87%) Prometheus
8 21 (5.36%) Salt
8 21 (5.36%) ZABBIX
9 19 (4.85%) Nagios
10 17 (4.34%) Consul
11 14 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (3.32%) HAProxy
13 12 (3.06%) Packer
13 12 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (2.55%) Graphite
15 9 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (2.04%) Kibana
17 6 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 127 (32.40%) Red Hat
2 94 (23.98%) VMware
3 45 (11.48%) Microsoft
4 40 (10.20%) SaltStack
5 37 (9.44%) Google
6 31 (7.91%) Cisco
7 17 (4.34%) Fortinet
8 16 (4.08%) New Relic
9 13 (3.32%) Juniper
9 13 (3.32%) TOWER Software
10 12 (3.06%) Splunk
10 12 (3.06%) Sun
11 10 (2.55%) Atlassian
11 10 (2.55%) Oracle
12 9 (2.30%) Arista
13 8 (2.04%) Citrix
13 8 (2.04%) Tufin
14 6 (1.53%) ForgeRock
14 6 (1.53%) Veeam
14 6 (1.53%) Zscaler