Puppet Job Trends in the North of England

Puppet
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 293 323
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -78
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 28 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.24% 1.10% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £39,111
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,563 £44,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +30.50% -28.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £74,375 £59,063
90th Percentile - £79,625 £60,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.41% -3.57%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 865 1,270 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.79% 13.31% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 676 392 609
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,025 £31,200
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,237 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the North of England

Puppet
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the North of England

Puppet
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
North West -10 13 £57,500 -2.54% 25
North East - 13 £82,500 - 4
Yorkshire -37 2 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) GCP
4 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 5 (17.86%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (10.71%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (7.14%) Mimecast
7 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 2 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (7.14%) AMQP
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
1 2 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) GitLab
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) AIX Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) AWS CDK
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) gRPC
4 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
4 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
4 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.14%) React
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Ubuntu
3 5 (17.86%) Debian
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.29%) Windows
5 3 (10.71%) CentOS
5 3 (10.71%) Unix
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (7.14%) AIX
7 1 (3.57%) Solaris
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Configuration Management
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Identity Management
6 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
7 3 (10.71%) AutoML
7 3 (10.71%) Clean Code
7 3 (10.71%) Digital Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Server Management
7 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) Bash
3 6 (21.43%) Go
3 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Korn
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) RHCE
2 3 (10.71%) RHCSA
3 2 (7.14%) IBM AIX Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Linux+ Certification
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) iptables
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) KVM
4 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (89.29%) Ansible
2 22 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 12 (42.86%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Istio
4 3 (10.71%) linkerd
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.14%) Podman
6 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Google
1 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
1 5 (17.86%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle