Puppet Jobs in the North West

Puppet
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 273 224
Rank change year-on-year +12 -49 +32
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 20 20 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.20% 0.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.84% 2.89% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 29
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £81,375 - £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 1,089 691 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.56% 7.01% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 269 527 679
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,250 £33,700
25th Percentile £47,231 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -3.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.58% -8.74% -3.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the North West.

Salary trend for Puppet in the North West

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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
Cumbria - 10 £72,500 -
Manchester +49 9 £57,500 -4.17% 12
Lancashire - 1 £60,500 - 9
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) GitHub
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Lead
2 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Junior
4 2 (10.00%) Junior DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) ADO
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) Laravel
2 2 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (65.00%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (35.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (20.00%) Open Source
8 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (15.00%) Line Management
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 2 (10.00%) API Integration
9 2 (10.00%) Server Management
9 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 2 (10.00%) User Experience
10 1 (5.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
2 10 (50.00%) Bicep
2 10 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Terraform
2 16 (80.00%) Ansible
3 11 (55.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (10.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) PagerDuty