Puppet Jobs in the South West

Puppet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +12
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 9 141 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 1.53% 1.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.80% 14.43% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4 85 34
10th Percentile £51,400 £42,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £52,750 £46,250 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -27.34% +31.36%
75th Percentile £63,125 £80,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £89,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,576 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% -2.65% -

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 322 977 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.24% 10.60% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 223 747 629
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,750 £30,725
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.19% +5.11%
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,756 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the South West

Puppet
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire -18 4 - - 11
Wiltshire +40 2 £85,000 +88.89% 3
Somerset - 2 £54,500 -
Bristol +34 1 £52,000 -35.00% 4
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) IPv4
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) OSPF
2 2 (22.22%) VLAN
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
3 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Re-Platforming
3 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (11.11%) Line Management
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google