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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 166 166
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +32
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 7 136 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 1.26% 1.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.29% 14.38% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 79 34
10th Percentile - £42,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £82,500 £48,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -25.00% +24.44%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £79,688
90th Percentile - £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 306 946 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.60% 8.77% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 194 701 590
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,655
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +4.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -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
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 21 June 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 -16 5 - - 17
Wiltshire +41 2 £85,000 +88.89% 2
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) IPv4
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) CoreOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
1 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Re-Platforming
2 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat