Puppet Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Puppet
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 423 478
Rank change year-on-year -92 +55 -68
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 34 90 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.42% 3.38% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 22 61 172
10th Percentile £30,750 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,938 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £64,688 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -24.14% +2.73% -5.90%

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 2,399 2,663 5,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.49% 9.64% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 1,777 4,381
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -4.72%
75th Percentile £72,250 £76,840 £70,262
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Puppet job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Puppet
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

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 16 March 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
South West -36 12 £52,500 -19.23% 12
Scotland -10 7 £46,000 - 1
South East -18 7 £67,500 -6.57% 5
North West -38 6 £55,000 -24.14% 1
North of England -74 6 £55,000 -21.43% 4
West Midlands -7 1 - - 3
Midlands -22 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 1
Puppet
UK

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (14.71%) Apache
1 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) Serverless
3 9 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (26.47%) Azure
4 8 (23.53%) GCP
5 7 (20.59%) IaaS
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.76%) CloudFront
7 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) ATM
1 7 (20.59%) Multicast
1 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
1 7 (20.59%) tcpdump
1 7 (20.59%) Wireshark
2 5 (14.71%) AMQP
2 5 (14.71%) Network Security
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) 5G
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Big Data
1 5 (14.71%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Git
4 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 12 (35.29%) Aerospace
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Automotive
4 6 (17.65%) Spanish Language
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Finance
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Deployment Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Integration Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Administrator
5 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.88%) DBA
7 2 (5.88%) Project Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) REST
2 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
2 5 (14.71%) gRPC
2 5 (14.71%) Material-UI
2 5 (14.71%) Node.js
2 5 (14.71%) OpenAPI
2 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (14.71%) React
2 5 (14.71%) Spring
2 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (14.71%) Swagger
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (91.18%) Linux
2 13 (38.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (20.59%) CentOS
3 7 (20.59%) Ubuntu
3 7 (20.59%) Windows
4 6 (17.65%) Debian
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (44.12%) Containerisation
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) Configuration Management
5 11 (32.35%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (29.41%) DevOps
7 8 (23.53%) Validation
8 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (17.65%) Integration Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Kanban
8 6 (17.65%) Microservices
8 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) API Development
9 5 (14.71%) ITIL
9 5 (14.71%) Open Source
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 13 (38.24%) Bash
3 6 (17.65%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 7 (20.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.82%) LPIC
7 2 (5.88%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.94%) Degree
8 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Docker
2 7 (20.59%) KVM
2 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) iptables
4 3 (8.82%) Firmware
5 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.94%) pfSense
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (88.24%) Ansible
2 22 (64.71%) Kubernetes
3 18 (52.94%) Terraform
4 9 (26.47%) Progress Chef
5 7 (20.59%) Grafana
6 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (5.88%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.94%) Argo
8 1 (2.94%) Rancher
8 1 (2.94%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 5 (14.71%) Google
3 5 (14.71%) SaltStack
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 3 (8.82%) Dell
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) Tenable