Puppet Jobs in the South East

Puppet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 348 290
Rank change year-on-year +86 -58 +48
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 32 45 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.27% 0.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.84% 2.63% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 43 55
10th Percentile - £37,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £72,063 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,288 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.15% -3.05% -

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 661 1,714 2,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.09% 10.20% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 405 1,274 1,232
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £27,954
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £69,384 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.68% -10.37% -3.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the South East.

Salary trend for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

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 10 May 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
Hampshire +76 17 £57,500 -8.00% 4
Thames Valley +69 12 - - 4
Buckinghamshire - 9 - -
Berkshire +46 3 - - 2
West Sussex +28 2 £72,500 +11.54% 4
Sussex - 1 £66,500 - 1
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) DHCP
1 12 (37.50%) DNS
2 9 (28.13%) 5G
2 9 (28.13%) Bluetooth
2 9 (28.13%) LTE
2 9 (28.13%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 6 (18.75%) NAS
3 6 (18.75%) Network Security
3 6 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (18.75%) SAN
3 6 (18.75%) SMTP
3 6 (18.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (65.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (46.88%) Lead
2 12 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Support Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) VMware Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) VMware Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Clustering
2 9 (28.13%) IoT
2 9 (28.13%) NB-IoT
3 6 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (18.75%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Linux
1 22 (68.75%) Windows
1 22 (68.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (40.63%) High Availability
3 12 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 12 (37.50%) Task Automation
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (28.13%) Asset Management
5 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) Penetration Testing
5 9 (28.13%) Project Planning
5 9 (28.13%) Software Testing
5 9 (28.13%) Strategic Thinking
6 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.75%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.75%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (18.75%) Security Hardening
7 6 (18.75%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (18.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (28.13%) Bash
2 9 (28.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Degree
2 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (28.13%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (75.00%) vSphere
3 15 (46.88%) Hyper-V
4 14 (43.75%) Docker
5 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 12 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (18.75%) BitLocker
6 6 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (18.75%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (100.00%) Ansible
2 21 (65.63%) Kubernetes
3 17 (53.13%) Terraform
4 12 (37.50%) vCenter Server
4 12 (37.50%) vMotion
5 6 (18.75%) Nagios
5 6 (18.75%) PowerCLI
5 6 (18.75%) vRealize
6 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
7 3 (9.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Microsoft
1 25 (78.13%) VMware
2 12 (37.50%) Citrix
2 12 (37.50%) HP
3 6 (18.75%) Google
3 6 (18.75%) Symantec
3 6 (18.75%) Veeam