Puppet Job Trends in the South West

Puppet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 152 170
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 30 8 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.39% 0.30% 1.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.87% 2.94% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 81
10th Percentile £30,000 £53,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -27.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -3.45%

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 381 272 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.96% 10.08% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 266 195 722
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,000 £97,500 £86,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the South West

Puppet
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
Gloucestershire -21 12 £35,000 - 6
Bristol - 12 £75,000 - 5
Devon - 4 £52,500 -
Wiltshire -9 1 £75,000 -11.76%
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) GCP
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 5 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) AMQP
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (13.33%) Git
4 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 3 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (3.33%) Gatling
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) JMeter
5 1 (3.33%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) DBA
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) MySQL DBA
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.67%) gRPC
2 2 (6.67%) Material-UI
2 2 (6.67%) Node.js
2 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.67%) React
2 2 (6.67%) Spring
2 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.67%) Swagger
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) Memcached
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (96.67%) Linux
2 10 (33.33%) Unix
3 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (30.00%) Windows
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.67%) CentOS
6 2 (6.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) DevOps
2 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (16.67%) Kanban
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.33%) Observability
8 4 (13.33%) Patch Management
8 4 (13.33%) Proactive Maintenance
8 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) Go
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Firmware
2 4 (13.33%) iptables
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) KVM
3 1 (3.33%) QEMU
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (63.33%) Terraform
2 16 (53.33%) Ansible
3 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 9 (30.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (23.33%) Grafana
5 7 (23.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.00%) Argo
6 3 (10.00%) Rancher
6 3 (10.00%) yum
7 1 (3.33%) Consul
7 1 (3.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
2 4 (13.33%) Dell
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software
5 1 (3.33%) VMware