Hybrid/Remote Puppet Job Trends

Puppet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 391 458
Rank change year-on-year +1 +67 -103
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 30 34 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.90% 1.66% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 119
10th Percentile £31,700 £50,375 £48,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £54,063 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £82,234 £80,313 £81,188
90th Percentile £121,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,576 2,048 3,713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 13.67% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 1,190 2,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,636 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.85% -7.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Puppet and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Puppet job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Puppet
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Puppet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Puppet

Puppet
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Puppet over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Puppet salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) GCP
3 9 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) Prefect
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.33%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) AMQP
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (3.33%) Redis
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) GitLab
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Gatling
4 1 (3.33%) JMeter
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
2 5 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 4 (13.33%) Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Associate Director
5 2 (6.67%) Project Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Project Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.33%) gRPC
4 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
4 1 (3.33%) Memcached
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Debian
3 4 (13.33%) CentOS
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (10.00%) VMS
5 2 (6.67%) Windows
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (23.33%) ITIL
6 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
7 6 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (16.67%) Coaching
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (13.33%) ITSM
9 4 (13.33%) Proactive Maintenance
9 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
4 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (6.67%) LPIC
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Firmware
2 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 3 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) iptables
4 1 (3.33%) KVM
4 1 (3.33%) QEMU
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (86.67%) Ansible
2 19 (63.33%) Terraform
3 18 (60.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (30.00%) Grafana
4 9 (30.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (23.33%) ZABBIX
6 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.67%) Argo
7 2 (6.67%) Salt
8 1 (3.33%) Consul
8 1 (3.33%) Istio
8 1 (3.33%) linkerd
8 1 (3.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Cribl.io
3 4 (13.33%) Dell
4 3 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (3.33%) Tenable
6 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software