Puppet Job Trends in the North West

Puppet
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 180 168
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +69
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 7 35 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.11% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.11% 7.29% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 14
10th Percentile £58,000 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £44,263
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +58.15% -42.89%
75th Percentile - £80,625 £55,813
90th Percentile - £83,750 £67,900
England median annual salary £68,750 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.69% -4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 331 480 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.34% 9.28% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 253 262 446
10th Percentile £28,550 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,925 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the North West

Puppet
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North West over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +1 6 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Cumbria -5 1 £55,000 -24.14%
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (42.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (42.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Windows DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) gRPC
1 3 (42.86%) Material-UI
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) Debian
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) SaltStack
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle