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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 142 177
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 +8
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 3 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.31% 2.08% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £43,375 - -
25th Percentile £46,563 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.92%
75th Percentile £61,563 - £80,000
90th Percentile £65,125 - £83,580
UK median annual salary £58,750 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -18.97% +0.69% -4.00%

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 229 240 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.24% 8.78% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 57 131 252
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,231 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £66,425
Median % change year-on-year - -9.67% +10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Puppet job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Puppet in Scotland

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 27 December 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 - 1 - - 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ATM
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
1 1 (33.33%) RHCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat