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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 265 233
Rank change year-on-year -18 -32 +46
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 6 43 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.065% 0.34% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 4.56% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3 26 42
10th Percentile £63,400 £47,500 £38,400
25th Percentile £69,625 £51,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.94% -15.90%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £73,125 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -20.69% +7.41% -12.90%

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 958 944 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.45% 7.55% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 465 514 1,059
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,050 £31,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,133 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -12.08% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,000 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%

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 October 2025.

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 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
North West -12 6 £80,000 +33.33% 2
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 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) AMQP
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Podman
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) SaltStack