Puppet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 508 547
Rank change year-on-year -130 +39 -168
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 89 146 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.94% 2.92% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 54 97 294
10th Percentile £45,950 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £78,438 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -12.73%

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 4,577 5,006 9,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.05% 11.50% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,197 3,300 7,137
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,229 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.86%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the UK

Puppet
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 12 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 9 May 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
England -106 66 £70,000 -3.45% 41
UK excluding London -87 58 £65,000 -2.99% 30
Work from Home +8 30 £70,000 - 17
South West -29 28 £65,000 +19.27% 10
South East -37 14 £70,000 +21.74% 7
London -64 14 £78,813 -3.00% 11
Scotland -8 6 £46,000 -
North West -34 6 £55,000 -21.43% 7
North of England -85 6 £55,000 -21.43% 8
West Midlands -37 2 - - 2
Midlands -42 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 1

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (7.87%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.62%) Apache
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.37%) Confluence
4 3 (3.37%) IIS
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.12%) Drupal
6 1 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.20%) AWS
2 32 (35.96%) Azure
3 28 (31.46%) GCP
4 12 (13.48%) Serverless
5 9 (10.11%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.74%) IaaS
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.62%) CloudFront
9 5 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.49%) GitHub
11 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.25%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 8 (8.99%) Network Security
2 8 (8.99%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.74%) ATM
3 6 (6.74%) Multicast
3 6 (6.74%) tcpdump
3 6 (6.74%) Wireshark
4 4 (4.49%) AMQP
4 4 (4.49%) DNS
5 2 (2.25%) MQTT
5 2 (2.25%) SSL
6 1 (1.12%) 5G
6 1 (1.12%) DHCP
6 1 (1.12%) Internet
6 1 (1.12%) LAN
6 1 (1.12%) NAS
6 1 (1.12%) SAN
6 1 (1.12%) VPN
6 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.74%) MySQL
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.49%) Big Data
4 4 (4.49%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.49%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 14 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.61%) GitLab
4 9 (10.11%) Subversion
5 7 (7.87%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.62%) JIRA
7 4 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.12%) Gatling
9 1 (1.12%) JMeter
9 1 (1.12%) Maven
9 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (22.47%) Finance
2 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Aerospace
4 9 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.74%) Automotive
5 6 (6.74%) Spanish Language
6 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Military
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (11.24%) Senior
4 9 (10.11%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Administrator
5 6 (6.74%) DBA
5 6 (6.74%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Integration Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Lead
5 6 (6.74%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (6.74%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (6.74%) Oracle DBA
5 6 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (6.74%) Team Leader
6 5 (5.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) Kafka
2 7 (7.87%) REST
3 6 (6.74%) gRPC
3 6 (6.74%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.62%) Node.js
5 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.49%) Material-UI
5 4 (4.49%) OpenAPI
5 4 (4.49%) React
5 4 (4.49%) Spring
5 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.49%) Swagger
6 2 (2.25%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.25%) Middleware
6 2 (2.25%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.12%) .NET
7 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.12%) Memcached
7 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.37%) Clustering
4 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (83.15%) Linux
2 24 (26.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (19.10%) Windows
4 11 (12.36%) CentOS
5 10 (11.24%) Unix
5 10 (11.24%) Windows Server
6 9 (10.11%) Debian
6 9 (10.11%) Ubuntu
7 8 (8.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (8.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (3.37%) VMS
10 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.80%) CI/CD
2 50 (56.18%) DevOps
3 37 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (30.34%) Agile
5 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
6 20 (22.47%) Configuration Management
7 19 (21.35%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.61%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.61%) SDLC
10 12 (13.48%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (13.48%) Observability
10 12 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.36%) ITIL
12 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (11.24%) Microservices
12 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (11.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.19%) Python
2 29 (32.58%) Bash
3 16 (17.98%) Java
4 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.74%) Go
6 5 (5.62%) Rust
6 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.37%) Perl
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) DV Cleared
4 9 (10.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.37%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (3.37%) LPIC
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) Degree
8 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.12%) RHCE
8 1 (1.12%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (44.94%) Docker
2 11 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.99%) KVM
4 4 (4.49%) Firmware
4 4 (4.49%) iptables
4 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.12%) pfSense
6 1 (1.12%) QEMU
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (79.78%) Ansible
2 54 (60.67%) Terraform
3 52 (58.43%) Kubernetes
4 23 (25.84%) Progress Chef
5 20 (22.47%) Grafana
6 18 (20.22%) Prometheus
7 10 (11.24%) ZABBIX
8 9 (10.11%) Argo
9 8 (8.99%) Rancher
10 5 (5.62%) yum
11 2 (2.25%) Podman
11 2 (2.25%) Salt
12 1 (1.12%) Consul
12 1 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.12%) Nagios
12 1 (1.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Red Hat
2 16 (17.98%) VMware
3 8 (8.99%) Oracle
4 6 (6.74%) Google
5 4 (4.49%) Cisco
5 4 (4.49%) Cribl.io
5 4 (4.49%) Dell
5 4 (4.49%) SaltStack
5 4 (4.49%) Tenable
6 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.25%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.12%) Juniper
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software