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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 208 175
Rank change year-on-year +40 -33 +83
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 4 10 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.17% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.39% 2.58% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - - £45,625
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% -15.63%

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 288 388 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.84% 6.41% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 202 220 352
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £30,060
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £80,000 £81,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet 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 18 September 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
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Solihull -1 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £67,500 -
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware