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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 172 239
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 +20
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 1 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.014% 0.089% 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 1.37% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66,000
25th Percentile - £52,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £91,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -

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 174 219 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.46% 6.50% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 132 179 439
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,122 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,879 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat