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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 475 353
Rank change year-on-year -105 -122 -12
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 32 209 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.062% 0.42% 0.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 3.67% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 22 128 261
10th Percentile £38,825 £49,600 £44,263
25th Percentile £54,063 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £72,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.69% -4.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,875 £110,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% +0.69% -4.00%

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 3,702 5,695 6,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.12% 11.44% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,769 3,516 5,609
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,700
25th Percentile £42,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% -3.70%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -17 12 £75,000 -3.23% 32
North West -2 7 £80,000 +14.29% 12
North of England -29 7 £80,000 +33.33% 30
South West -6 4 £58,750 -21.67% 11
East of England +12 3 £57,500 -17.86% 21
South East +15 2 £60,000 -16.96% 38
West Midlands +18 1 - - 16
Midlands +14 1 - - 28
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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 5 (15.63%) Apache Spark
2 5 (15.63%) IIS
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.25%) JBoss
4 2 (6.25%) Luigi
4 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (6.25%) WebSphere
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) OpenShift
4 8 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.50%) Serverless
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.38%) SaaS
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.25%) GitHub
8 2 (6.25%) IaaS
8 2 (6.25%) PaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (9.38%) AMQP
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) 5G
4 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Hadoop
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Big Data
3 3 (9.38%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
3 7 (21.88%) GitLab
4 6 (18.75%) Bitbucket
5 5 (15.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (15.63%) Git
6 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (6.25%) Ant
7 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 2 (6.25%) Maven
8 1 (3.13%) Subversion
8 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Electronics
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Publishing
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Administrator
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Scripter
5 2 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Kafka
2 6 (18.75%) Middleware
3 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.38%) gRPC
5 3 (9.38%) Material-UI
5 3 (9.38%) Node.js
5 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
5 3 (9.38%) React
5 3 (9.38%) REST
5 3 (9.38%) Spring
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.38%) Swagger
6 1 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) PKI
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Linux
2 16 (50.00%) Windows
3 12 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (12.50%) CentOS
6 4 (12.50%) Debian
6 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (9.38%) Unix
8 1 (3.13%) AIX
8 1 (3.13%) CoreOS
8 1 (3.13%) Solaris
8 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (43.75%) Agile
4 11 (34.38%) Configuration Management
4 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (28.13%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (15.63%) Microservices
9 4 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Time Management
10 3 (9.38%) Data Science
10 3 (9.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (9.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
3 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) Groovy
6 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) C++
7 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP
4 1 (3.13%) GCED
4 1 (3.13%) GCIA
4 1 (3.13%) GCIH
4 1 (3.13%) GIAC
4 1 (3.13%) GREM
4 1 (3.13%) GSEC
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) LPIC
4 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) vCloud
5 1 (3.13%) iptables
5 1 (3.13%) pfSense
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (81.25%) Ansible
2 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 14 (43.75%) Progress Chef
4 13 (40.63%) Terraform
5 4 (12.50%) Grafana
6 3 (9.38%) Podman
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (6.25%) NetBackup
7 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.25%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (6.25%) ZABBIX
8 1 (3.13%) Ambari
8 1 (3.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.13%) Nessus
8 1 (3.13%) Rancher
8 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Red Hat
1 10 (31.25%) VMware
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.50%) Google
5 3 (9.38%) SaltStack
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco
6 2 (6.25%) HP
6 2 (6.25%) SAP
7 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.13%) Juniper
7 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk