Puppet Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Puppet
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Puppet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 192 134
Rank change year-on-year -2 -58 +96
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 3 5 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.078% 0.10% 1.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 1.04% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 25
10th Percentile - - £35,800
25th Percentile - £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% -8.77%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £84,500 £110,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.16% +39.13% -34.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 285 483 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.37% 9.97% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 161 297 433
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,700 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the Thames Valley

Puppet
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Puppet

Puppet
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Berkshire -7 3 - - 1
Puppet
South East

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
General
1 3 (100.00%) Law
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Product Management
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform