Puppet Job Trends in the South East

Puppet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 287 297
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -89
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 19 9 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.100% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.14% 1.23% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 22
10th Percentile £41,250 - £50,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -8.00% +35.87%
75th Percentile £82,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 - £71,700
England median annual salary £76,829 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +33.61% -20.69% +10.94%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 889 730 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.66% 8.17% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 699 456 589
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +1.72%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -8.35% +0.71%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the South East

Puppet
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South East over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
West Sussex -15 10 £75,000 - 4
Hampshire -45 7 £95,000 +65.22% 6
Thames Valley - 2 £68,079 - 3
Berkshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £76,157 -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (36.84%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) Cloudflare
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.79%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) MQTT
2 3 (15.79%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (15.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) GitLab
2 5 (26.32%) Git
3 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
4 3 (15.79%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Team Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.26%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) gRPC
2 5 (26.32%) Kafka
3 4 (21.05%) Protocol Buffers
3 4 (21.05%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) Keycloak
4 3 (15.79%) LAMP
4 3 (15.79%) Sass
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
1 3 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Debian
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) CentOS
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) AI
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) DevSecOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (42.11%) ITIL
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) High Availability
4 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (31.58%) Edge Computing
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
5 6 (31.58%) SDLC
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Rust
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) Bash
5 3 (15.79%) Perl
5 3 (15.79%) PHP
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) LXC
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Ansible
2 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Grafana
3 5 (26.32%) Podman
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (21.05%) ZABBIX
5 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) NVIDIA
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
1 4 (21.05%) Tenable
2 3 (15.79%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) VMware