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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 286 249
Rank change year-on-year -4 -37 +36
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 9 36 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.096% 0.26% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 3.50% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 38
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,848 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,625 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £52,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -20.43% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,438 £60,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% -15.63%

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 1,329 1,028 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.13% 7.29% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 448 618 1,111
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,925 £32,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,166 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,125 £69,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -3 8 £52,750 -12.08% 2
Yorkshire +16 1 - -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Ant
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Server Management
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Podman
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) PagerDuty
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat