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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 486 385
Rank change year-on-year -24 -101 -92
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 139 371 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.44% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.02% 4.34% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 95 286 465
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,576 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £125,500 £91,250 £100,850
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 4,610 8,552 13,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 10.04% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,109 6,659 8,637
10th Percentile £37,450 £32,750 £35,375
25th Percentile £49,598 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -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 1 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 1 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 +36 57 £81,250 +8.33% 72
South East +96 31 £57,500 -11.54% 28
North of England +81 30 £70,000 +33.33% 19
North West +34 22 £71,250 +35.71% 12
South West -18 9 £54,500 +3.81% 15
Yorkshire +71 8 £70,000 +63.19% 7
East of England +51 7 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Midlands +81 6 £55,000 -37.14% 8
West Midlands +53 5 £55,000 -31.25% 7
East Midlands +46 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 11 (7.91%) Confluence
2 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.60%) Apache
3 5 (3.60%) nginx
4 4 (2.88%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.44%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.80%) AWS
2 55 (39.57%) Azure
3 39 (28.06%) GCP
4 24 (17.27%) GitHub
5 22 (15.83%) Pulumi
6 6 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.32%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.60%) SaaS
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.88%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.88%) Serverless
9 3 (2.16%) Anthos
9 3 (2.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.16%) Datadog
9 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.16%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.55%) Firewall
2 18 (12.95%) DHCP
2 18 (12.95%) DNS
3 13 (9.35%) SAN
4 11 (7.91%) 5G
4 11 (7.91%) Bluetooth
4 11 (7.91%) LTE
4 11 (7.91%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (5.04%) NAS
6 6 (4.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (4.32%) LAN
6 6 (4.32%) Network Security
6 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.32%) WAN
7 5 (3.60%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (3.60%) SMTP
7 5 (3.60%) VLAN
7 5 (3.60%) VPN
7 5 (3.60%) VSAN
8 4 (2.88%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.72%) MySQL
4 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (27.34%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.67%) JIRA
3 11 (7.91%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (5.76%) GitLab
4 8 (5.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.32%) AppScan
5 6 (4.32%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.32%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.88%) Git
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) Maven
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 30 (21.58%) Finance
2 28 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.91%) Electronics
5 8 (5.76%) Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Law
6 5 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Games
7 4 (2.88%) Retail
7 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.44%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (28.78%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (25.18%) Lead
3 25 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (12.95%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (11.51%) Senior
6 12 (8.63%) Junior
6 12 (8.63%) Support Engineer
7 11 (7.91%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 11 (7.91%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Administrator
8 10 (7.19%) Junior Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.32%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (4.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.32%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 5 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) VMware Specialist
11 5 (3.60%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.47%) ADO
2 4 (2.88%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.88%) RESTful
3 3 (2.16%) LDAP
4 2 (1.44%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.44%) Laravel
4 2 (1.44%) Middleware
4 2 (1.44%) Vue
5 1 (0.72%) .NET
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) Node.js
5 1 (0.72%) React
5 1 (0.72%) REST
5 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.86%) Public Cloud
2 15 (10.79%) Clustering
3 14 (10.07%) Management Information System
4 12 (8.63%) Data Centre
4 12 (8.63%) IoT
5 11 (7.91%) NB-IoT
6 6 (4.32%) Replication
7 5 (3.60%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.60%) PKI
8 4 (2.88%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.16%) Machine to Machine
9 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.44%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.44%) Eurex
10 2 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 94 (67.63%) Linux
2 54 (38.85%) Windows
3 26 (18.71%) Windows Server
4 18 (12.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.32%) Unix
6 5 (3.60%) CentOS
7 4 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.16%) Solaris
9 2 (1.44%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.44%) zOS
10 1 (0.72%) Debian
10 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (45.32%) CI/CD
3 52 (37.41%) DevOps
4 45 (32.37%) Platform Engineering
5 37 (26.62%) Configuration Management
6 26 (18.71%) Agile
6 26 (18.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (16.55%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (15.11%) Low Latency
10 20 (14.39%) Fintech
10 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (12.95%) ITIL
11 18 (12.95%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.23%) High Availability
13 16 (11.51%) Asset Management
13 16 (11.51%) Roadmaps
14 14 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (10.07%) Incident Management
14 14 (10.07%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (53.96%) Python
2 45 (32.37%) PowerShell
3 44 (31.65%) Bash
4 31 (22.30%) Bicep
5 24 (17.27%) Ruby
6 14 (10.07%) Go
7 9 (6.47%) Java
8 6 (4.32%) SQL
9 4 (2.88%) Perl
9 4 (2.88%) R
10 3 (2.16%) C#
10 3 (2.16%) PHP
11 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.42%) Degree
2 21 (15.11%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.51%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.91%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (7.91%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.88%) CISSP
8 4 (2.88%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.16%) CCSP
9 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.72%) GREM
11 1 (0.72%) SANS
11 1 (0.72%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) SLA
2 6 (4.32%) GDPR
2 6 (4.32%) NIST
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.60%) QA
4 3 (2.16%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (33.81%) Docker
2 42 (30.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (18.71%) vSphere
4 18 (12.95%) Active Directory
5 17 (12.23%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (11.51%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.60%) BitLocker
8 5 (3.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (3.60%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (2.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.44%) KVM
10 2 (1.44%) NFS
10 2 (1.44%) Postfix
10 2 (1.44%) SRDF
10 2 (1.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 121 (87.05%) Ansible
2 78 (56.12%) Terraform
3 75 (53.96%) Progress Chef
4 59 (42.45%) Kubernetes
5 20 (14.39%) Podman
6 13 (9.35%) Nagios
6 13 (9.35%) vCenter Server
7 11 (7.91%) Prometheus
8 10 (7.19%) vMotion
9 9 (6.47%) Grafana
10 7 (5.04%) vRealize
11 5 (3.60%) Graylog
11 5 (3.60%) PowerCLI
11 5 (3.60%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.88%) Consul
12 4 (2.88%) Rundeck
13 3 (2.16%) Argo
13 3 (2.16%) Avamar
13 3 (2.16%) Istio
13 3 (2.16%) Salt
Vendors
1 48 (34.53%) VMware
2 37 (26.62%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.07%) Citrix
3 14 (10.07%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.35%) Cisco
5 12 (8.63%) Google
6 11 (7.91%) HP
6 11 (7.91%) Oracle
7 9 (6.47%) Atlassian
7 9 (6.47%) EMC
8 8 (5.76%) Symantec
9 6 (4.32%) NetApp
9 6 (4.32%) PagerDuty
10 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
10 5 (3.60%) Veeam
11 4 (2.88%) Juniper
11 4 (2.88%) Pure Storage
11 4 (2.88%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.88%) Splunk
12 3 (2.16%) Dell