Puppet Jobs in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 517 398
Rank change year-on-year +11 -119 -53
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 73 258 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.34% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.16% 4.04% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 40 167 206
10th Percentile £52,875 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -12.73% +14.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,386 6,382 7,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 8.52% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 4,306 4,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,659
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%
75th Percentile £75,054 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +31 27 £70,000 +33.33% 30
South East +56 26 £57,500 -11.54% 13
North West -1 19 £70,000 +33.33% 17
Yorkshire +53 8 £70,000 +63.19% 12
Midlands +64 6 £67,500 -22.86% 7
South West -10 6 £85,000 +61.90% 15
West Midlands +59 5 £67,500 -15.63% 4
Scotland +117 4 - - 3
East of England +40 4 £90,000 +41.18% 8
East Midlands +39 1 - - 2
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 3 (4.11%) nginx
4 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.74%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) AWS
1 35 (47.95%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) GitHub
3 15 (20.55%) GCP
4 6 (8.22%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.48%) Serverless
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.74%) IaaS
8 2 (2.74%) PaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Sentry
9 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) DHCP
1 16 (21.92%) DNS
2 13 (17.81%) Firewall
3 11 (15.07%) 5G
3 11 (15.07%) Bluetooth
3 11 (15.07%) LTE
3 11 (15.07%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (13.70%) SAN
5 8 (10.96%) NAS
6 6 (8.22%) Network Security
6 6 (8.22%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (8.22%) SMTP
6 6 (8.22%) VPN
6 6 (8.22%) VSAN
7 5 (6.85%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (5.48%) IPv4
9 3 (4.11%) LAN
9 3 (4.11%) VLAN
9 3 (4.11%) WAN
10 2 (2.74%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (26.03%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.33%) TeamCity
3 7 (9.59%) GitLab
4 6 (8.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.85%) Git
6 4 (5.48%) JIRA
7 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.37%) Maven
8 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 26 (35.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Electronics
4 9 (12.33%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Law
6 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Lead
2 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Support Engineer
4 11 (15.07%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (12.33%) Administrator
6 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 6 (8.22%) Support Specialist
7 6 (8.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 6 (8.22%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) VMware Specialist
7 6 (8.22%) VMware Support Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) ADO
2 3 (4.11%) LDAP
3 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.74%) Laravel
3 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 2 (2.74%) Vue
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Clustering
2 11 (15.07%) IoT
2 11 (15.07%) NB-IoT
3 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.22%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.22%) PKI
4 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.11%) Replication
7 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.37%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (65.75%) Linux
2 44 (60.27%) Windows
3 27 (36.99%) Windows Server
4 11 (15.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.48%) CentOS
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (4.11%) Solaris
7 2 (2.74%) Debian
7 2 (2.74%) VMS
8 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (32.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (28.77%) Configuration Management
4 19 (26.03%) CI/CD
5 17 (23.29%) DevOps
5 17 (23.29%) Task Automation
6 16 (21.92%) High Availability
6 16 (21.92%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (20.55%) Asset Management
8 12 (16.44%) Incident Management
8 12 (16.44%) Software Testing
9 11 (15.07%) Agile
9 11 (15.07%) Penetration Testing
9 11 (15.07%) Project Planning
9 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
9 11 (15.07%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.59%) Security Hardening
12 7 (9.59%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 34 (46.58%) Python
2 31 (42.47%) Bash
2 31 (42.47%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.33%) Bicep
3 9 (12.33%) Ruby
4 4 (5.48%) R
5 3 (4.11%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) SQL
6 2 (2.74%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) PHP
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.92%) Degree
2 16 (21.92%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.07%) CompTIA Security+
3 11 (15.07%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (8.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 30 (41.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (32.88%) vSphere
3 20 (27.40%) Docker
4 17 (23.29%) Active Directory
5 16 (21.92%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (20.55%) Hyper-V
7 6 (8.22%) BitLocker
7 6 (8.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (8.22%) Terminal Services
8 4 (5.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (4.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (2.74%) KVM
10 2 (2.74%) NFS
10 2 (2.74%) SRDF
10 2 (2.74%) Xen
11 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (87.67%) Ansible
2 36 (49.32%) Terraform
3 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
4 18 (24.66%) Progress Chef
5 13 (17.81%) vCenter Server
6 12 (16.44%) vMotion
7 10 (13.70%) Nagios
8 7 (9.59%) vRealize
9 6 (8.22%) PowerCLI
10 4 (5.48%) Grafana
10 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
11 3 (4.11%) Graylog
11 3 (4.11%) Rundeck
12 2 (2.74%) Salt
12 2 (2.74%) SCOM
13 1 (1.37%) Avamar
13 1 (1.37%) Nessus
13 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
13 1 (1.37%) Proxmox
13 1 (1.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (46.58%) VMware
2 32 (43.84%) Microsoft
3 15 (20.55%) Citrix
4 13 (17.81%) HP
5 9 (12.33%) Google
6 7 (9.59%) Cisco
6 7 (9.59%) Oracle
6 7 (9.59%) Red Hat
7 6 (8.22%) Symantec
7 6 (8.22%) Veeam
8 5 (6.85%) NetApp
8 5 (6.85%) PagerDuty
9 4 (5.48%) EMC
10 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
10 3 (4.11%) Juniper
10 3 (4.11%) Pure Storage
11 2 (2.74%) F5
11 2 (2.74%) New Relic
11 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.74%) Splunk