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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 139 198
Rank change year-on-year -5 +59 -17
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 2 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.070% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.89% 2.18% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £72,433
90th Percentile - - £82,184
UK median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -12.07% +2.73% -5.90%

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 224 229 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.85% 9.11% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50 124 263
10th Percentile £32,200 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,433 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,938 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £78,790 £94,633 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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
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 26 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
Glasgow - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 -
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ATM
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Scripter
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware