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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 345 306
Rank change year-on-year -17 -39 -18
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 12 88 147
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.086% 0.57% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.81% 3.45% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 56 137
10th Percentile £51,500 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile - £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £102,188 £110,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £137,750 £140,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

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 1,489 2,551 2,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.71% 16.52% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,641 2,472
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £78,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.24% -2.19%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +28 5 £87,500 +45.83%
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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
1 5 (41.67%) IIS
2 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (16.67%) Luigi
4 1 (8.33%) Apache
4 1 (8.33%) JBoss
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (50.00%) JIRA
3 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
3 5 (41.67%) GitLab
4 4 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (8.33%) Ant
5 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (8.33%) Git
5 1 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Middleware
3 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (16.67%) Unix
6 1 (8.33%) AIX
6 1 (8.33%) Debian
6 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) AI
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Science
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 2 (16.67%) SOLID
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) Scala
6 1 (8.33%) C++
6 1 (8.33%) Groovy
6 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) GCED
1 1 (8.33%) GCIA
1 1 (8.33%) GCIH
1 1 (8.33%) GIAC
1 1 (8.33%) GREM
1 1 (8.33%) GSEC
1 1 (8.33%) SANS
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
2 10 (83.33%) Progress Chef
3 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Podman
4 2 (16.67%) Terraform
5 1 (8.33%) Ambari
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk