Puppet Job Trends in London

Puppet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 346 393
Rank change year-on-year -54 +47 -38
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 12 44 123
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.056% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 2.25% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 111
10th Percentile £70,763 £63,375 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,406 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,625 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £136,250 £91,563 £88,125
90th Percentile £141,250 £140,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,861 1,957 3,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.72% 16.00% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 1,373 2,404
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,250 £117,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in London

Puppet
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Puppet in London

Puppet
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Central London -7 1 £75,000 - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Prefect
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Associate Director
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Professional Services Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) AIOps
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) People Management
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
3 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (50.00%) Terraform
4 5 (41.67%) Progress Chef
4 5 (41.67%) ZABBIX
5 4 (33.33%) Argo
5 4 (33.33%) Grafana
6 2 (16.67%) Rancher
6 2 (16.67%) Salt
7 1 (8.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Cribl.io
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat