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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 168 133
Rank change year-on-year -10 -35 +67
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 4 25 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.080% 0.58% 1.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.33% 5.88% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 44
10th Percentile £48,875 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £54,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £75,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £70,625 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £88,750 -
England median annual salary £68,750 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.69% -4.00%

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 300 425 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.97% 9.91% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 247 272 651
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,750 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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
Bristol 0 2 £75,000 - 1
Gloucestershire +19 1 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Devon - 1 £55,000 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) CoreOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat