Puppet Job Trends in Scotland

Puppet
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 188 143
Rank change year-on-year +43 -45 +70
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 4 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.16% 0.16% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.42% 1.53% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 15
10th Percentile - - £55,987
25th Percentile £41,250 £90,801 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £94,637 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.09% +26.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £43,750 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £72,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -20.14% +6.67% -12.90%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 282 459 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.09% 10.75% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 66 151 244
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £46,875 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.36% +8.92%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,322 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £90,000 £89,956
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in Scotland

Puppet
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Puppet

Puppet
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Glasgow - 2 - -
Edinburgh +12 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Release Train
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware