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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 503 368
Rank change year-on-year -122 -135 -50
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 77 284 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.38% 0.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.39% 4.17% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 48 205 324
10th Percentile £51,875 £42,400 £46,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% - -9.68%

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 5,522 6,813 9,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.32% 9.09% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 4,630 7,179
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,925 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,001 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,956
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.29%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -4 28 £75,000 -6.25% 39
South East +3 17 £57,500 -10.16% 6
North of England -5 14 £65,250 +30.50% 15
North West -18 11 £59,000 +9.77% 12
South West -4 10 £70,000 -6.67% 14
West Midlands +39 5 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Midlands +39 5 £67,500 -22.86% 3
East of England -29 4 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Yorkshire +10 3 £70,000 +40.00% 3
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 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 3 (3.90%) JBoss
3 3 (3.90%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.60%) Luigi
5 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (79.22%) AWS
2 43 (55.84%) Azure
3 23 (29.87%) GCP
4 14 (18.18%) SaaS
5 13 (16.88%) OpenShift
6 11 (14.29%) GitHub
7 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (10.39%) PaaS
8 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.79%) IaaS
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
9 5 (6.49%) Serverless
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.90%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.87%) DNS
2 17 (22.08%) DHCP
3 14 (18.18%) Firewall
4 11 (14.29%) SAN
5 7 (9.09%) Network Security
6 6 (7.79%) NAS
6 6 (7.79%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (7.79%) SMTP
6 6 (7.79%) VLAN
6 6 (7.79%) VSAN
7 4 (5.19%) IPv4
7 4 (5.19%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.60%) HTTP
9 2 (2.60%) OSPF
9 2 (2.60%) SSL
9 2 (2.60%) VPN
10 1 (1.30%) Internet
10 1 (1.30%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.39%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.08%) JIRA
3 16 (20.78%) Git
4 5 (6.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.19%) Maven
5 4 (5.19%) Spinnaker
5 4 (5.19%) YouTrack
6 3 (3.90%) Ant
6 3 (3.90%) GitLab
6 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.30%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (20.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
4 12 (15.58%) Law
5 4 (5.19%) Marketing
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Avionics
8 1 (1.30%) Games
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Lead
4 10 (12.99%) Senior
5 8 (10.39%) Administrator
5 8 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (7.79%) Support Specialist
7 6 (7.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 6 (7.79%) VMware Specialist
7 6 (7.79%) VMware Support Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 4 (5.19%) Django
3 4 (5.19%) Flask
3 4 (5.19%) RESTful
4 3 (3.90%) Middleware
4 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) ADO
5 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.60%) LAMP
5 2 (2.60%) LAPP Stack
5 2 (2.60%) Laravel
5 2 (2.60%) LDAP
5 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.60%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) Vue
5 2 (2.60%) YAML
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Clustering
2 13 (16.88%) Public Cloud
3 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.39%) PKI
4 6 (7.79%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.49%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (3.90%) Machine to Machine
7 3 (3.90%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.60%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.30%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (61.04%) Linux
2 40 (51.95%) Windows
3 19 (24.68%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (9.09%) CentOS
6 4 (5.19%) Unix
7 3 (3.90%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.60%) Debian
8 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.30%) Solaris
9 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Configuration Management
2 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 25 (32.47%) Agile
3 25 (32.47%) DevOps
4 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (22.08%) Task Automation
6 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (20.78%) Mentoring
7 15 (19.48%) High Availability
7 15 (19.48%) Incident Management
8 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (12.99%) TDD
11 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
12 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
12 8 (10.39%) ITIL
12 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
13 7 (9.09%) Product Management
13 7 (9.09%) Security Hardening
13 7 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) Python
2 32 (41.56%) PowerShell
3 25 (32.47%) Bash
4 6 (7.79%) Java
4 6 (7.79%) SQL
5 4 (5.19%) Perl
5 4 (5.19%) R
5 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.90%) Groovy
6 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.90%) PHP
7 2 (2.60%) Bicep
7 2 (2.60%) Go
7 2 (2.60%) Ruby
7 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.38%) DV Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 11 (14.29%) Degree
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.19%) CISSP
7 3 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.90%) CCSP
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.30%) GCIA
9 1 (1.30%) GCIH
9 1 (1.30%) GIAC
9 1 (1.30%) GREM
9 1 (1.30%) GSEC
9 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) GDPR
1 6 (7.79%) NIST
2 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.90%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) Docker
2 21 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (23.38%) Active Directory
4 16 (20.78%) Hyper-V
5 13 (16.88%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (16.88%) vSphere
6 6 (7.79%) BitLocker
6 6 (7.79%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (7.79%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.90%) KVM
8 2 (2.60%) Postfix
8 2 (2.60%) Xen
9 1 (1.30%) iptables
9 1 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (76.62%) Ansible
2 32 (41.56%) Terraform
3 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
4 25 (32.47%) Progress Chef
5 13 (16.88%) vCenter Server
6 12 (15.58%) vMotion
7 9 (11.69%) Nagios
8 7 (9.09%) Salt
8 7 (9.09%) vRealize
9 6 (7.79%) PowerCLI
10 3 (3.90%) Grafana
10 3 (3.90%) NetBackup
10 3 (3.90%) Podman
10 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.90%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.60%) Nessus
11 2 (2.60%) SCOM
11 2 (2.60%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (2.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (36.36%) VMware
2 22 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 16 (20.78%) HP
4 15 (19.48%) Google
5 13 (16.88%) Citrix
6 8 (10.39%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
7 6 (7.79%) Symantec
7 6 (7.79%) Veeam
8 5 (6.49%) Cisco
8 5 (6.49%) Oracle
9 3 (3.90%) Alibaba
9 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.60%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.60%) Dell
10 2 (2.60%) EMC
10 2 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (2.60%) PagerDuty
10 2 (2.60%) Splunk
11 1 (1.30%) Juniper