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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 129 230
Rank change year-on-year -9 +101 -39
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 7 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.23% 0.095% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.87% 1.00% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £39,900 - £60,000
25th Percentile £43,500 - £62,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.90%
75th Percentile £51,750 - £72,433
90th Percentile £61,200 - £82,184
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -24.14% +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 181 201 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.99% 9.55% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 51 133 242
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,520 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £51,250 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £71,250 £93,778 £77,188
90th Percentile £78,790 £108,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 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
South Ayrshire - 7 £46,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) ATM
1 7 (100.00%) Multicast
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 7 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 7 (100.00%) Automotive
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Integration Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
1 7 (100.00%) KVM
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware