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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 447 366
Rank change year-on-year -41 -81 +30
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 18 125 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 3.95% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12 70 149
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,625 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +0.69% -4.00%

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 2,305 3,161 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.46% 8.81% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 1,794 3,454
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK 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 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 13 January 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 13 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
North West -1 7 £80,000 +14.29% 2
North of England -15 7 £80,000 +33.33% 9
South West -8 5 £55,000 -24.14% 10
South East +8 3 £61,250 -15.22% 18
Scotland 0 3 £53,750 - 1
Midlands +13 1 - - 11
West Midlands +12 1 - - 5
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 4 (22.22%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (11.11%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (5.56%) JBoss
4 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) CloudFront
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) AMQP
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) 5G
3 1 (5.56%) ATM
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) Multicast
3 1 (5.56%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
1 3 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) Ant
4 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.56%) Maven
General
1 5 (27.78%) Aerospace
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 3 (16.67%) gRPC
1 3 (16.67%) Material-UI
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (16.67%) React
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) Spring
1 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 3 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) CentOS
4 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (16.67%) Debian
6 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (5.56%) Unix
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (27.78%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (22.22%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) API Development
8 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Kanban
8 3 (16.67%) Open Source
8 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Perl
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) LPIC
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (5.56%) RHCE
5 1 (5.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) iptables
2 2 (11.11%) KVM
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) pfSense
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) Ansible
2 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (61.11%) Terraform
4 5 (27.78%) Progress Chef
5 3 (16.67%) Grafana
6 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (5.56%) Nessus
7 1 (5.56%) Podman
7 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle