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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 533 391
Rank change year-on-year -6 -142 -94
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 145 392 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.40% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.92% 3.92% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 98 301 514
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £47,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £89,688
90th Percentile £114,625 £92,500 £100,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -11 141 £72,500 +2.73% 133
UK excluding London +46 87 £70,000 +16.67% 78
London +30 58 £80,000 +6.67% 63
Work from Home +77 45 £70,000 -3.45% 87
South East +101 31 £57,500 -11.54% 18
North of England +78 30 £70,000 +33.33% 21
North West +35 22 £71,250 +35.71% 14
South West -7 9 £54,500 +3.81% 14
Yorkshire +63 8 £70,000 +9.71% 7
East of England +52 8 £70,000 +5.66% 7
Midlands +60 6 £55,000 -37.14% 8
West Midlands +54 5 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Scotland +122 3 - - 4
East Midlands +45 1 - -

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 11 (7.59%) Confluence
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.45%) Apache
3 5 (3.45%) nginx
4 4 (2.76%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) AWS
2 56 (38.62%) Azure
3 40 (27.59%) GCP
4 24 (16.55%) GitHub
5 22 (15.17%) Pulumi
6 6 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.14%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.45%) SaaS
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.76%) Datadog
8 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.76%) Serverless
9 3 (2.07%) Anthos
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.07%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.24%) Firewall
2 19 (13.10%) DHCP
2 19 (13.10%) DNS
3 14 (9.66%) SAN
4 11 (7.59%) 5G
4 11 (7.59%) Bluetooth
4 11 (7.59%) LTE
4 11 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (5.52%) TCP/IP
5 8 (5.52%) VPN
6 7 (4.83%) LAN
6 7 (4.83%) NAS
6 7 (4.83%) Network Security
6 7 (4.83%) WAN
7 6 (4.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (3.45%) SMTP
8 5 (3.45%) VLAN
8 5 (3.45%) VSAN
9 4 (2.76%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.38%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.38%) MySQL
6 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (26.21%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.10%) JIRA
3 11 (7.59%) TeamCity
4 10 (6.90%) GitLab
5 8 (5.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (5.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.14%) AppScan
6 6 (4.14%) CircleCI
6 6 (4.14%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.76%) Git
8 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 31 (21.38%) Finance
2 29 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.59%) Electronics
5 10 (6.90%) Banking
6 8 (5.52%) Law
7 5 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Games
8 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (24.14%) Lead
3 26 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (13.10%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) Senior
6 13 (8.97%) Support Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Administrator
7 12 (8.28%) Junior
7 12 (8.28%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (7.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 6 (4.14%) Linux Administrator
11 6 (4.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 5 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) VMware Specialist
12 5 (3.45%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) ADO
2 4 (2.76%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.76%) LDAP
2 4 (2.76%) RESTful
3 3 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.38%) Laravel
4 2 (1.38%) Middleware
4 2 (1.38%) Vue
5 1 (0.69%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) JSON
5 1 (0.69%) Node.js
5 1 (0.69%) React
5 1 (0.69%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.69%) Public Cloud
2 16 (11.03%) Management Information System
3 15 (10.34%) Clustering
4 13 (8.97%) Data Centre
4 13 (8.97%) IoT
5 11 (7.59%) NB-IoT
6 6 (4.14%) Replication
7 5 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.45%) PKI
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.07%) Eurex
9 3 (2.07%) Machine to Machine
9 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.38%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (67.59%) Linux
2 55 (37.93%) Windows
3 26 (17.93%) Windows Server
4 18 (12.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.14%) CentOS
5 6 (4.14%) Unix
6 4 (2.76%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (2.07%) Solaris
8 2 (1.38%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.38%) VMS
8 2 (1.38%) zOS
9 1 (0.69%) Debian
9 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (44.14%) CI/CD
3 53 (36.55%) DevOps
4 45 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
5 38 (26.21%) Configuration Management
6 28 (19.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (18.62%) Agile
8 23 (15.86%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (15.17%) Low Latency
9 22 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (13.79%) Fintech
12 19 (13.10%) High Availability
12 19 (13.10%) ITIL
13 18 (12.41%) Mentoring
14 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
15 16 (11.03%) Asset Management
16 14 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (9.66%) Incident Management
16 14 (9.66%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.48%) Python
2 47 (32.41%) PowerShell
3 46 (31.72%) Bash
4 31 (21.38%) Bicep
5 24 (16.55%) Ruby
6 14 (9.66%) Go
7 9 (6.21%) Java
8 7 (4.83%) SQL
9 5 (3.45%) Perl
10 4 (2.76%) R
11 3 (2.07%) C#
11 3 (2.07%) PHP
12 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) Degree
2 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.59%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (7.59%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.76%) CISSP
8 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.07%) CCSP
9 3 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.69%) GCED
11 1 (0.69%) GREM
11 1 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) SLA
2 6 (4.14%) GDPR
2 6 (4.14%) NIST
3 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.45%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (32.41%) Docker
2 42 (28.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (17.93%) vSphere
4 18 (12.41%) Active Directory
5 17 (11.72%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (11.03%) Hyper-V
7 8 (5.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.45%) BitLocker
8 5 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (3.45%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.07%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (2.07%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.38%) KVM
10 2 (1.38%) NFS
10 2 (1.38%) Postfix
10 2 (1.38%) SRDF
10 2 (1.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 124 (85.52%) Ansible
2 78 (53.79%) Terraform
3 76 (52.41%) Progress Chef
4 62 (42.76%) Kubernetes
5 20 (13.79%) Podman
6 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
7 13 (8.97%) Nagios
7 13 (8.97%) vCenter Server
8 12 (8.28%) Grafana
9 10 (6.90%) vMotion
10 7 (4.83%) vRealize
11 6 (4.14%) ZABBIX
12 5 (3.45%) Graylog
12 5 (3.45%) PowerCLI
13 4 (2.76%) Consul
13 4 (2.76%) Rundeck
14 3 (2.07%) Argo
14 3 (2.07%) Avamar
14 3 (2.07%) Istio
14 3 (2.07%) Salt
Vendors
1 48 (33.10%) VMware
2 38 (26.21%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 14 (9.66%) Citrix
5 13 (8.97%) Cisco
5 13 (8.97%) Oracle
6 12 (8.28%) Google
7 11 (7.59%) HP
8 9 (6.21%) Atlassian
8 9 (6.21%) EMC
9 8 (5.52%) Symantec
10 6 (4.14%) NetApp
10 6 (4.14%) PagerDuty
11 5 (3.45%) New Relic
11 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
11 5 (3.45%) Splunk
11 5 (3.45%) Veeam
12 4 (2.76%) Juniper
12 4 (2.76%) Pure Storage
12 4 (2.76%) SaltStack