Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 381 308
Rank change year-on-year -169 -73 -114
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 387 829 2,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.85% 1.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.93% 5.81% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 287 490 966
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,692
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £84,375 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Salary trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -116 367 £70,000 -3.45% 87
UK excluding London -123 256 £60,000 -12.73% 50
South West +1 139 £52,500 -26.06% 15
Work from Home -64 137 £70,000 -6.67% 51
London -6 127 £75,000 - 38
South East -50 46 £65,000 -1.52% 12
North of England -43 33 £52,500 -22.22% 9
North West -46 21 £52,500 -16.00% 4
East of England -8 14 £63,750 +41.67% 6
Yorkshire +42 11 £42,894 -38.72% 3
Scotland -82 9 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Midlands -18 7 £87,500 +29.63% 6
Wales -3 6 £50,685 - 3
East Midlands -12 5 £87,500 -12.50%
Northern Ireland +22 3 £70,000 -6.67%
West Midlands -6 2 £80,000 +18.52% 6
North East -9 1 - - 2

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 42 (10.85%) Apache
2 32 (8.27%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.68%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.62%) nginx
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.55%) Confluence
6 6 (1.55%) JBoss
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.03%) Drupal
8 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 267 (68.99%) AWS
2 202 (52.20%) Azure
3 102 (26.36%) OpenShift
4 85 (21.96%) GCP
5 53 (13.70%) SaaS
6 47 (12.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (10.85%) Serverless
8 40 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (8.27%) Datadog
10 30 (7.75%) IaaS
11 28 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (6.72%) PaaS
14 22 (5.68%) GitHub
15 20 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (4.91%) Amazon S3
17 14 (3.62%) Azure AKS
18 12 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.41%) DNS
2 63 (16.28%) TCP/IP
3 60 (15.50%) HTTP
4 56 (14.47%) DHCP
5 43 (11.11%) Firewall
6 28 (7.24%) AMQP
7 18 (4.65%) VPN
8 17 (4.39%) SNMP
8 17 (4.39%) VSAN
8 17 (4.39%) WAN
9 16 (4.13%) SSL
10 15 (3.88%) LAN
11 13 (3.36%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (3.36%) Internet
11 13 (3.36%) OSPF
12 12 (3.10%) tcpdump
13 10 (2.58%) BGP
13 10 (2.58%) IPsec
14 8 (2.07%) DWDM
14 8 (2.07%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.11%) Big Data
2 32 (8.27%) MySQL
3 30 (7.75%) Hadoop
4 28 (7.24%) Cloudera CDH
5 21 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (4.65%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.10%) MariaDB
9 11 (2.84%) Redis
10 10 (2.58%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.55%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.03%) Power BI
14 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
15 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 93 (24.03%) Git
3 58 (14.99%) GitLab
4 22 (5.68%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.58%) Subversion
5 10 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (2.58%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.07%) Maven
6 8 (2.07%) Selenium
6 8 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.81%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.81%) JIRA
8 5 (1.29%) JUnit
9 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.78%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.78%) TestNG
9 3 (0.78%) Travis CI
9 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
General
1 67 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.18%) Aerospace
3 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (7.75%) Finance
4 17 (4.39%) Banking
4 17 (4.39%) Retail
5 13 (3.36%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.03%) Marketing
11 3 (0.78%) Advertising
11 3 (0.78%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Legal
11 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Automotive
12 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 107 (27.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 99 (25.58%) Senior
3 67 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (12.14%) Lead
5 45 (11.63%) Architect
6 43 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (10.85%) Linux Engineer
8 37 (9.56%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (9.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 30 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (7.49%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (7.24%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 28 (7.24%) Software Engineer
12 24 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (5.94%) AWS Architect
14 20 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (4.65%) Senior Linux Engineer
16 17 (4.39%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.08%) React
2 36 (9.30%) Node.js
3 33 (8.53%) REST
4 32 (8.27%) RabbitMQ
5 29 (7.49%) Spring
5 29 (7.49%) Spring Boot
6 28 (7.24%) AngularJS
6 28 (7.24%) gRPC
6 28 (7.24%) Material-UI
6 28 (7.24%) OpenAPI
6 28 (7.24%) Swagger
7 21 (5.43%) .NET
8 20 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (3.62%) YAML
10 13 (3.36%) HTML
10 13 (3.36%) OAuth
11 11 (2.84%) Keycloak
11 11 (2.84%) XML
12 10 (2.58%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 51 (13.18%) Public Cloud
3 37 (9.56%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.46%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.88%) Clustering
8 8 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.29%) PKI
10 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 281 (72.61%) Linux
2 141 (36.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 127 (32.82%) Windows
4 66 (17.05%) CentOS
5 38 (9.82%) Unix
6 34 (8.79%) Debian
7 33 (8.53%) Ubuntu
8 22 (5.68%) Windows Server
9 19 (4.91%) CoreOS
10 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.55%) Mesosphere
11 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.78%) SUSE
12 3 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.78%) VMS
13 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (66.93%) DevOps
2 152 (39.28%) Configuration Management
3 135 (34.88%) Agile
4 127 (32.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (28.94%) CI/CD
6 111 (28.68%) Containerisation
7 91 (23.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.25%) Collaborative Working
9 59 (15.25%) Open Source
10 55 (14.21%) Actionable Insight
11 53 (13.70%) Microservices
12 43 (11.11%) Time Management
13 40 (10.34%) Mentoring
14 39 (10.08%) Scrum
14 39 (10.08%) Software Architecture
15 37 (9.56%) Kanban
16 35 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (9.04%) Test Automation
17 33 (8.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (72.09%) Python
2 176 (45.48%) Bash
3 118 (30.49%) PowerShell
4 113 (29.20%) Java
5 49 (12.66%) Perl
6 47 (12.14%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.27%) Ruby
8 23 (5.94%) Go
9 19 (4.91%) SQL
10 16 (4.13%) PHP
11 15 (3.88%) C#
11 15 (3.88%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.33%) Korn
12 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.07%) C++
13 8 (2.07%) Groovy
14 4 (1.03%) C
14 4 (1.03%) Lua
14 4 (1.03%) Tcl
15 3 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 157 (40.57%) Security Cleared
2 110 (28.42%) DV Cleared
3 77 (19.90%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.98%) Degree
5 24 (6.20%) AWS Certification
6 20 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.07%) RHCE
11 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.81%) CCNA
12 5 (1.29%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.78%) Linux+ Certification
14 2 (0.52%) CCNP
14 2 (0.52%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.26%) OCP
15 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.88%) QA
System Software
1 180 (46.51%) Docker
2 90 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (14.47%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (4.91%) vSphere
5 18 (4.65%) Active Directory
6 14 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.84%) KVM
8 7 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.81%) VirtualBox
9 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.29%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.03%) XenApp
10 4 (1.03%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.78%) Ceph
11 3 (0.78%) Gluster
11 3 (0.78%) oVirt
12 2 (0.52%) Varnish
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 329 (85.01%) Ansible
2 242 (62.53%) Kubernetes
3 195 (50.39%) Terraform
4 133 (34.37%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.98%) Grafana
5 27 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 27 (6.98%) vCenter Server
6 20 (5.17%) Nagios
6 20 (5.17%) ZABBIX
7 16 (4.13%) Consul
7 16 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.10%) HAProxy
9 11 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (2.84%) Packer
9 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (2.84%) Salt
10 9 (2.33%) Graphite
11 7 (1.81%) Kibana
12 6 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 135 (34.88%) Red Hat
2 101 (26.10%) VMware
3 42 (10.85%) Google
3 42 (10.85%) SaltStack
4 41 (10.59%) Microsoft
5 31 (8.01%) Cisco
6 18 (4.65%) New Relic
6 18 (4.65%) Splunk
7 16 (4.13%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.36%) Juniper
8 13 (3.36%) Oracle
9 11 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.33%) Citrix
10 9 (2.33%) TOWER Software
11 8 (2.07%) Arista
11 8 (2.07%) Tufin
12 7 (1.81%) ForgeRock
12 7 (1.81%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.29%) Sun
13 5 (1.29%) Veeam