Puppet Job Trends in England

Puppet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 576 516
Rank change year-on-year -43 -60 -164
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 120 77 264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.18% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.28% 1.49% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 71 48 213
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,125 £44,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -15.71% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £76,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.91% -17.86% -

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 5,259 5,156 6,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.60% 11.77% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 3,130 4,738
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,366 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,809 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.29% - -2.99%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in England

Puppet
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in England over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 2026. 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
South West -36 39 £72,500 +3.57% 21
London -53 33 £125,000 +66.67% 34
North of England -37 23 £65,000 +7.44% 26
South East -28 19 £70,000 +21.74% 14
North West -10 12 £57,500 - 21
North East - 10 £82,500 - 2
West Midlands -27 4 - - 2
Midlands -33 4 - - 2
East of England -32 1 £85,000 +47.83% 4
Yorkshire -41 1 £52,500 -25.00% 3
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.00%) Apache
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.33%) nginx
4 3 (2.50%) Confluence
5 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) Drupal
6 1 (0.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.83%) JBoss
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (59.17%) AWS
2 38 (31.67%) Azure
3 31 (25.83%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (21.67%) GCP
5 21 (17.50%) Serverless
6 19 (15.83%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (2.50%) Cloudflare
14 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (2.50%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) Firewall
2 7 (5.83%) Network Security
3 5 (4.17%) MQTT
4 4 (3.33%) AMQP
5 3 (2.50%) DNS
5 3 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
7 1 (0.83%) LAN
7 1 (0.83%) NAS
7 1 (0.83%) SAN
7 1 (0.83%) SSL
7 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.00%) MySQL
2 6 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.33%) Big Data
4 4 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.50%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.67%) Power BI
6 2 (1.67%) Power Query
7 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (21.67%) Git
2 17 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 15 (12.50%) GitLab
4 8 (6.67%) Subversion
5 6 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.50%) JIRA
7 3 (2.50%) Maven
7 3 (2.50%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.67%) Ant
8 2 (1.67%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.67%) git-flow
8 2 (1.67%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.83%) Gatling
9 1 (0.83%) JMeter
9 1 (0.83%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (20.00%) Finance
2 14 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Senior
2 20 (16.67%) Consultant
2 20 (16.67%) Professional Services Consultant
3 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) Migration Consultant
4 13 (10.83%) Senior Consultant
4 13 (10.83%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 10 (8.33%) Administrator
5 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
7 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (6.67%) Team Leader
8 7 (5.83%) Engineering Manager
8 7 (5.83%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (5.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (5.00%) DBA
9 6 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) gRPC
1 9 (7.50%) REST
2 7 (5.83%) Kafka
3 6 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (5.00%) Node.js
3 6 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (4.17%) React
5 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.33%) CSS
5 4 (3.33%) HTML
5 4 (3.33%) Keycloak
5 4 (3.33%) Material-UI
5 4 (3.33%) OpenAPI
5 4 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (3.33%) Spring
5 4 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.33%) Swagger
6 3 (2.50%) LAMP
6 3 (2.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 19 (15.83%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (15.83%) Onboarding
4 14 (11.67%) Distributed Computing
4 14 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (10.83%) Mainframe
6 6 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.83%) Clustering
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (69.17%) Linux
2 25 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 25 (20.83%) Windows
3 19 (15.83%) Debian
4 16 (13.33%) Unix
5 13 (10.83%) Ubuntu
5 13 (10.83%) Windows Server
6 12 (10.00%) CentOS
7 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.50%) Solaris
8 3 (2.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.83%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.33%) CI/CD
2 53 (44.17%) DevOps
3 51 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (38.33%) Configuration Management
5 33 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 30 (25.00%) Agile
7 30 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 26 (21.67%) Project Delivery
9 24 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (19.17%) AI
11 22 (18.33%) Migration
12 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (15.00%) Microservices
14 18 (15.00%) Observability
14 18 (15.00%) Project Management
14 18 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (14.17%) Collaborative Culture
16 16 (13.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.50%) Python
2 37 (30.83%) Bash
3 21 (17.50%) Java
4 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.17%) Go
6 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.50%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.83%) Rust
9 4 (3.33%) PHP
9 4 (3.33%) SQL
10 2 (1.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.83%) Korn
11 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (49.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 16 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.50%) RHCE
6 3 (2.50%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.67%) Degree
7 2 (1.67%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (46.67%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.17%) iptables
5 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.33%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.50%) Firmware
6 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.50%) KVM
6 3 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.83%) QEMU
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (60.00%) Ansible
2 70 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 60 (50.00%) Terraform
4 43 (35.83%) Progress Chef
5 17 (14.17%) Grafana
6 16 (13.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (8.33%) Argo
8 9 (7.50%) ZABBIX
9 8 (6.67%) Rancher
10 6 (5.00%) Podman
11 5 (4.17%) yum
12 4 (3.33%) vCenter Server
13 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (2.50%) Istio
13 3 (2.50%) linkerd
13 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (1.67%) Nagios
14 2 (1.67%) Salt
15 1 (0.83%) Consul
15 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.17%) Google
3 10 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.33%) VMware
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle
5 4 (3.33%) Cisco
5 4 (3.33%) NVIDIA
5 4 (3.33%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.33%) Tenable
6 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.50%) Dell
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) New Relic
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software