Puppet Job Trends in Cheltenham

Puppet
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 2 7 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.35% 2.68% 7.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.71% 8.97% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £42,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £85,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +51.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £90,000 £78,000
90th Percentile - £91,500 £78,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £67,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.54% +1.82%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheltenham

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 35 78 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 23.65% 29.89% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 27 39 38
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £51,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £88,125 £80,750 £78,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +1.82%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Puppet job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Puppet
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Puppet

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat