Puppet Jobs in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 496 373
Rank change year-on-year -59 -123 -79
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 137 369 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.43% 0.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.63% 4.37% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 91 286 455
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,625 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £91,250 £100,150
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,213 8,441 13,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.65% 9.85% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,038 6,554 8,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,125 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% -7.96% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,875 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Puppet in England

Puppet
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Puppet in England

Puppet
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
London +33 58 £80,000 +6.67% 109
South East +82 31 £57,500 -11.54% 39
North of England +51 28 £70,000 +33.33% 23
North West -2 20 £70,000 +33.33% 17
Yorkshire +62 8 £70,000 +63.19% 6
South West -6 8 £55,000 +4.76% 18
Midlands +66 7 £61,250 -30.00% 10
West Midlands +60 6 £61,250 -23.44% 9
East of England +33 6 £76,250 +17.31% 14
East Midlands +34 1 - -
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (7.30%) Confluence
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.11%) Apache
4 5 (3.65%) nginx
5 3 (2.19%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.46%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.73%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 75 (54.74%) AWS
2 58 (42.34%) Azure
3 38 (27.74%) GCP
4 23 (16.79%) GitHub
5 20 (14.60%) Pulumi
6 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.84%) SaaS
8 6 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.38%) PaaS
9 5 (3.65%) IaaS
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.92%) Serverless
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.19%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.79%) Firewall
2 20 (14.60%) DHCP
2 20 (14.60%) DNS
3 13 (9.49%) SAN
4 11 (8.03%) 5G
4 11 (8.03%) Bluetooth
4 11 (8.03%) LTE
4 11 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (5.84%) NAS
6 6 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (4.38%) Network Security
6 6 (4.38%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (4.38%) SMTP
6 6 (4.38%) VSAN
7 5 (3.65%) LAN
7 5 (3.65%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.65%) VLAN
7 5 (3.65%) WAN
8 4 (2.92%) IPv4
8 4 (2.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.46%) MySQL
3 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (29.20%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.87%) JIRA
3 10 (7.30%) Git
3 10 (7.30%) TeamCity
4 9 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (5.84%) GitLab
6 7 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.38%) CircleCI
8 5 (3.65%) AppScan
8 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.73%) Ant
11 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.73%) Selenium
11 1 (0.73%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.44%) Finance
3 23 (16.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.03%) Electronics
5 8 (5.84%) Law
6 7 (5.11%) Banking
7 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Games
8 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.73%) Avionics
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (27.01%) Platform Engineer
2 32 (23.36%) Lead
3 26 (18.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (13.14%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior
6 14 (10.22%) Support Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) Administrator
7 11 (8.03%) Junior
7 11 (8.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Junior Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Linux Administrator
11 7 (5.11%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 6 (4.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (4.38%) VMware Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) VMware Specialist
12 6 (4.38%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) ADO
2 5 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.92%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.92%) RESTful
4 3 (2.19%) LDAP
4 3 (2.19%) Middleware
5 2 (1.46%) .NET
5 2 (1.46%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.46%) Laravel
5 2 (1.46%) Node.js
5 2 (1.46%) REST
5 2 (1.46%) Vue
6 1 (0.73%) JSON
6 1 (0.73%) Kafka
6 1 (0.73%) LAMP
6 1 (0.73%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.73%) React
6 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.44%) Public Cloud
2 17 (12.41%) Clustering
3 14 (10.22%) Management Information System
4 13 (9.49%) Data Centre
5 11 (8.03%) IoT
5 11 (8.03%) NB-IoT
6 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.38%) PKI
6 6 (4.38%) Replication
7 5 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.19%) Machine to Machine
9 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.46%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.46%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 92 (67.15%) Linux
2 56 (40.88%) Windows
3 28 (20.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (14.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.38%) CentOS
6 5 (3.65%) Unix
7 4 (2.92%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.19%) Solaris
9 1 (0.73%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.73%) Debian
9 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.72%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (44.53%) CI/CD
3 49 (35.77%) DevOps
4 41 (29.93%) Configuration Management
4 41 (29.93%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (18.98%) Agile
7 21 (15.33%) Deployment Automation
8 20 (14.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (13.87%) Low Latency
9 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.14%) Fintech
10 18 (13.14%) High Availability
10 18 (13.14%) Mentoring
11 17 (12.41%) ITIL
11 17 (12.41%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.68%) Asset Management
12 16 (11.68%) Incident Management
12 16 (11.68%) Task Automation
13 13 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 75 (54.74%) Python
2 46 (33.58%) PowerShell
3 45 (32.85%) Bash
4 28 (20.44%) Bicep
5 22 (16.06%) Ruby
6 13 (9.49%) Go
7 10 (7.30%) Java
8 6 (4.38%) SQL
9 4 (2.92%) Perl
9 4 (2.92%) R
10 3 (2.19%) C#
10 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.19%) PHP
10 3 (2.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.73%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.71%) Degree
2 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
3 18 (13.14%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.76%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (8.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (5.84%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.92%) CISSP
8 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.19%) CCSP
9 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.73%) GCIA
10 1 (0.73%) GIAC
10 1 (0.73%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.73%) MCSE
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) SLA
2 6 (4.38%) GDPR
2 6 (4.38%) NIST
3 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.65%) QA
4 3 (2.19%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (35.04%) Docker
2 45 (32.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (19.71%) vSphere
4 20 (14.60%) Active Directory
5 19 (13.87%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (12.41%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (4.38%) BitLocker
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (4.38%) Terminal Services
9 4 (2.92%) KVM
10 3 (2.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (2.19%) VMware NSX
10 3 (2.19%) Xen
11 2 (1.46%) NFS
11 2 (1.46%) Postfix
11 2 (1.46%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (86.86%) Ansible
2 73 (53.28%) Terraform
3 69 (50.36%) Progress Chef
4 60 (43.80%) Kubernetes
5 19 (13.87%) Podman
6 15 (10.95%) vCenter Server
7 14 (10.22%) Nagios
8 12 (8.76%) vMotion
9 11 (8.03%) Prometheus
10 9 (6.57%) Grafana
11 8 (5.84%) vRealize
12 6 (4.38%) PowerCLI
13 5 (3.65%) Graylog
14 4 (2.92%) Consul
14 4 (2.92%) Rundeck
14 4 (2.92%) ZABBIX
15 3 (2.19%) Argo
15 3 (2.19%) Avamar
15 3 (2.19%) Istio
15 3 (2.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (37.23%) VMware
2 40 (29.20%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.68%) Citrix
4 15 (10.95%) Red Hat
5 14 (10.22%) Cisco
5 14 (10.22%) HP
6 13 (9.49%) Google
7 12 (8.76%) Oracle
8 9 (6.57%) EMC
8 9 (6.57%) Symantec
9 8 (5.84%) Atlassian
10 7 (5.11%) NetApp
11 6 (4.38%) PagerDuty
11 6 (4.38%) Veeam
12 5 (3.65%) Juniper
12 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
13 4 (2.92%) Dell
13 4 (2.92%) Pure Storage
13 4 (2.92%) SaltStack
13 4 (2.92%) Splunk