Puppet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 557 385
Rank change year-on-year -47 -172 -64
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 109 397 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.36% 0.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.86% 4.01% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 61 292 472
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.71% -6.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,860 9,895 13,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.41% 8.85% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,167 6,933 8,536
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +6.48% -9.28% +2.75%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Salary trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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
England -64 106 £70,000 - 355
UK excluding London +3 69 £57,500 -4.17% 140
London +9 41 £80,000 +3.23% 229
Work from Home +31 32 £65,000 - 154
South East +62 26 £57,500 -10.16% 35
North of England +53 25 £70,000 +33.33% 43
North West +17 17 £65,250 +24.29% 24
Yorkshire +61 8 £70,000 +16.67% 16
South West -4 7 £85,000 +61.90% 25
Midlands +98 6 £67,500 -22.86% 9
West Midlands +77 5 £67,500 -15.63% 5
Scotland +104 3 - - 6
East of England +28 2 £76,250 +24.49% 10
East Midlands +41 1 - - 4

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
4 3 (2.75%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.83%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.92%) JBoss
6 1 (0.92%) nginx
6 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.63%) AWS
2 49 (44.95%) Azure
3 33 (30.28%) GCP
4 18 (16.51%) GitHub
5 14 (12.84%) SaaS
6 10 (9.17%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.17%) Pulumi
7 8 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.34%) PaaS
8 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.50%) IaaS
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.67%) Serverless
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.35%) DNS
2 16 (14.68%) DHCP
3 15 (13.76%) Firewall
4 13 (11.93%) SAN
5 11 (10.09%) 5G
5 11 (10.09%) Bluetooth
5 11 (10.09%) LTE
5 11 (10.09%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (7.34%) NAS
7 6 (5.50%) Network Security
7 6 (5.50%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (5.50%) SMTP
7 6 (5.50%) VSAN
8 5 (4.59%) VLAN
8 5 (4.59%) VPN
9 4 (3.67%) IPv4
9 4 (3.67%) Kerberos
10 3 (2.75%) LAN
10 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.76%) JIRA
3 12 (11.01%) Git
4 6 (5.50%) GitLab
4 6 (5.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (5.50%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (3.67%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.67%) Spinnaker
6 4 (3.67%) YouTrack
7 3 (2.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.83%) Maven
9 1 (0.92%) Ant
9 1 (0.92%) AppScan
9 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (26.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 24 (22.02%) Finance
4 13 (11.93%) Law
5 11 (10.09%) Electronics
6 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Marketing
7 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.75%) Banking
8 3 (2.75%) Games
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.92%) Avionics
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Lead
2 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (19.27%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Support Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Senior
7 10 (9.17%) Administrator
7 10 (9.17%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (6.42%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 7 (6.42%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
10 6 (5.50%) Junior
10 6 (5.50%) Support Specialist
10 6 (5.50%) VMware Specialist
10 6 (5.50%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) ADO
2 4 (3.67%) Django
2 4 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.67%) Flask
2 4 (3.67%) LDAP
2 4 (3.67%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.75%) Middleware
3 3 (2.75%) Node.js
4 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.83%) LAMP
4 2 (1.83%) LAPP Stack
4 2 (1.83%) Laravel
4 2 (1.83%) REST
4 2 (1.83%) Vue
5 1 (0.92%) JSON
5 1 (0.92%) Kafka
5 1 (0.92%) React
5 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Public Cloud
2 17 (15.60%) Clustering
3 11 (10.09%) IoT
3 11 (10.09%) NB-IoT
4 9 (8.26%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.34%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.50%) PKI
6 6 (5.50%) Replication
7 5 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.75%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.75%) Machine to Machine
9 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.83%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (65.14%) Linux
2 50 (45.87%) Windows
3 28 (25.69%) Windows Server
4 18 (16.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.50%) CentOS
5 6 (5.50%) Unix
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (2.75%) Solaris
8 2 (1.83%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.83%) Debian
9 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.92%) VMS
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 41 (37.61%) CI/CD
3 38 (34.86%) Configuration Management
4 32 (29.36%) DevOps
5 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (22.94%) Agile
6 25 (22.94%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (15.60%) High Availability
7 17 (15.60%) Mentoring
7 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.60%) Task Automation
8 16 (14.68%) Incident Management
9 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.93%) Asset Management
10 13 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) Software Testing
12 11 (10.09%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (10.09%) Project Planning
12 11 (10.09%) Strategic Thinking
13 10 (9.17%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.63%) Python
2 43 (39.45%) PowerShell
3 39 (35.78%) Bash
4 14 (12.84%) Bicep
5 12 (11.01%) Ruby
6 11 (10.09%) Java
7 8 (7.34%) Go
8 6 (5.50%) SQL
9 4 (3.67%) Perl
9 4 (3.67%) R
9 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.75%) C#
10 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.92%) Groovy
11 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Degree
2 21 (19.27%) Security Cleared
3 16 (14.68%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.01%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (10.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
7 7 (6.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.67%) CISSP
9 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
10 3 (2.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.75%) CCSP
10 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.92%) GCED
12 1 (0.92%) GREM
12 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.92%) SANS
12 1 (0.92%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) GDPR
1 6 (5.50%) NIST
2 5 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) SLA
4 3 (2.75%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (34.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (33.03%) Docker
3 25 (22.94%) vSphere
4 20 (18.35%) Active Directory
5 15 (13.76%) Hyper-V
6 14 (12.84%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (5.50%) BitLocker
7 6 (5.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (5.50%) Terminal Services
8 5 (4.59%) KVM
9 4 (3.67%) Xen
10 3 (2.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.83%) NFS
11 2 (1.83%) Postfix
11 2 (1.83%) SRDF
12 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (85.32%) Ansible
2 59 (54.13%) Terraform
3 46 (42.20%) Kubernetes
4 43 (39.45%) Progress Chef
5 13 (11.93%) vCenter Server
6 12 (11.01%) vMotion
7 10 (9.17%) Nagios
7 10 (9.17%) Prometheus
8 9 (8.26%) Podman
9 8 (7.34%) Grafana
9 8 (7.34%) vRealize
10 7 (6.42%) Salt
11 6 (5.50%) PowerCLI
12 3 (2.75%) Consul
12 3 (2.75%) Proxmox
13 2 (1.83%) Argo
13 2 (1.83%) CFEngine
13 2 (1.83%) Istio
13 2 (1.83%) SCOM
13 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (41.28%) VMware
2 34 (31.19%) Microsoft
3 17 (15.60%) Google
4 14 (12.84%) HP
5 13 (11.93%) Citrix
5 13 (11.93%) Red Hat
6 11 (10.09%) Oracle
7 9 (8.26%) Cisco
7 9 (8.26%) Symantec
8 7 (6.42%) EMC
9 6 (5.50%) Veeam
10 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
11 4 (3.67%) Atlassian
11 4 (3.67%) NetApp
11 4 (3.67%) SaltStack
12 3 (2.75%) Alibaba
12 3 (2.75%) New Relic
12 3 (2.75%) PagerDuty
12 3 (2.75%) Remedy
13 2 (1.83%) Splunk