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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 518 394
Rank change year-on-year +22 -124 -57
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 83 255 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.36% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.47% 4.01% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 52 170 214
10th Percentile £53,525 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 3,354 6,366 7,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 8.99% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 4,359 4,461
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -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 14 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 14 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
South East +87 31 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North of England +47 28 £70,000 +33.33% 14
North West +6 20 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire +71 8 £70,000 +63.19% 3
South West -19 8 £55,000 +4.76% 14
Midlands +61 7 £61,250 -30.00% 9
West Midlands +58 6 £61,250 -23.44% 8
East of England +37 6 £76,250 +17.31% 12
Scotland +113 3 - - 4
East Midlands +29 1 - -
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 (7.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.61%) Apache
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) nginx
3 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 40 (48.19%) Azure
2 38 (45.78%) AWS
3 18 (21.69%) GCP
4 17 (20.48%) GitHub
5 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.82%) Serverless
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.41%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.41%) IaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.41%) PaaS
8 2 (2.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) DHCP
1 18 (21.69%) DNS
2 16 (19.28%) Firewall
3 11 (13.25%) 5G
3 11 (13.25%) Bluetooth
3 11 (13.25%) LTE
3 11 (13.25%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (12.05%) SAN
5 8 (9.64%) NAS
6 6 (7.23%) Network Security
6 6 (7.23%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (7.23%) SMTP
6 6 (7.23%) VPN
6 6 (7.23%) VSAN
7 5 (6.02%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (6.02%) LAN
7 5 (6.02%) WAN
8 4 (4.82%) IPv4
9 3 (3.61%) VLAN
10 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (25.30%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.05%) TeamCity
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) JIRA
3 6 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (6.02%) Git
5 2 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) Selenium
6 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (13.25%) Electronics
4 9 (10.84%) Finance
5 5 (6.02%) Law
6 4 (4.82%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Lead
2 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Support Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) Administrator
6 9 (10.84%) Senior
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Support Specialist
8 6 (7.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Specialist
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Support Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) ADO
2 3 (3.61%) LDAP
3 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.41%) Laravel
3 2 (2.41%) Middleware
3 2 (2.41%) Vue
4 1 (1.20%) REST
4 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Clustering
2 11 (13.25%) IoT
2 11 (13.25%) NB-IoT
3 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.23%) PKI
5 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.61%) Replication
8 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (65.06%) Linux
2 46 (55.42%) Windows
3 27 (32.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (3.61%) CentOS
6 3 (3.61%) Solaris
7 2 (2.41%) VMS
8 1 (1.20%) Debian
8 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (30.12%) CI/CD
4 22 (26.51%) DevOps
5 21 (25.30%) Configuration Management
6 19 (22.89%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (20.48%) Agile
7 17 (20.48%) High Availability
8 16 (19.28%) Task Automation
9 15 (18.07%) Asset Management
10 13 (15.66%) Roadmaps
11 12 (14.46%) Incident Management
11 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.46%) Software Testing
12 11 (13.25%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (13.25%) Project Planning
12 11 (13.25%) Strategic Thinking
13 10 (12.05%) Mentoring
14 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
15 8 (9.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) Python
2 33 (39.76%) PowerShell
3 32 (38.55%) Bash
4 10 (12.05%) Bicep
4 10 (12.05%) Ruby
5 4 (4.82%) R
6 2 (2.41%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) Perl
6 2 (2.41%) PHP
6 2 (2.41%) SQL
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.10%) Degree
3 18 (21.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (13.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (13.25%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (42.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (31.33%) vSphere
3 21 (25.30%) Docker
4 18 (21.69%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (20.48%) Active Directory
5 17 (20.48%) Hyper-V
6 6 (7.23%) BitLocker
6 6 (7.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (7.23%) Terminal Services
6 6 (7.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (3.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (3.61%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.41%) KVM
8 2 (2.41%) NFS
8 2 (2.41%) SRDF
8 2 (2.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (85.54%) Ansible
2 40 (48.19%) Terraform
3 32 (38.55%) Kubernetes
4 25 (30.12%) Progress Chef
5 15 (18.07%) vCenter Server
6 12 (14.46%) vMotion
7 10 (12.05%) Nagios
8 7 (8.43%) vRealize
9 6 (7.23%) PowerCLI
10 3 (3.61%) Avamar
10 3 (3.61%) Grafana
10 3 (3.61%) Graylog
10 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.61%) Rundeck
10 3 (3.61%) VxRail
11 2 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (2.41%) Salt
11 2 (2.41%) SCOM
11 2 (2.41%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (46.99%) Microsoft
2 38 (45.78%) VMware
3 15 (18.07%) Citrix
4 13 (15.66%) HP
5 9 (10.84%) Cisco
5 9 (10.84%) Google
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle
6 7 (8.43%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.23%) EMC
7 6 (7.23%) Symantec
7 6 (7.23%) Veeam
8 5 (6.02%) NetApp
8 5 (6.02%) PagerDuty
9 3 (3.61%) Aruba
9 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.61%) Dell
9 3 (3.61%) Juniper
9 3 (3.61%) Pure Storage
10 2 (2.41%) F5
10 2 (2.41%) Splunk