Puppet Job Trends in the West Midlands

Puppet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 203 167
Rank change year-on-year +40 -36 +111
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 2 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.059% 0.20% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.77% 3.29% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - - £51,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £70,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.17% +7.41% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 260 334 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.70% 6.21% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 192 182 364
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £28,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,375 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Puppet job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Puppet
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Puppet

Puppet
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Solihull -3 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £67,500 -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware