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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 173 227
Rank change year-on-year -31 +54 -40
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 3 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% 0.15% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.36% 1.87% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £61,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +21.95% -10.55% -1.79%

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 220 267 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.56% 7.75% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 165 180 228
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,438 £37,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,875 £75,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 26 August 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
Birmingham - 2 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Ivy
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat