Puppet Job Trends in the Midlands

Puppet
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 252 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 -62 +115
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 4 12 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.072% 0.13% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.88% 2.32% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 26
10th Percentile - - £46,891
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +9.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -20.69% +10.94% -15.68%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 455 518 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.20% 5.75% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 284 281 529
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £30,582
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -4.41%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Puppet
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Puppet

Puppet
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
West Midlands +42 4 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware