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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 396 300
Rank change year-on-year -146 -96 -113
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 391 854 2,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.85% 1.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.95% 5.79% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 298 501 1,023
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,652
25th Percentile £48,770 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +16.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -

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 9,900 14,758 28,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 14.61% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,125 9,159 14,065
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 10 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 10 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 -101 370 £70,000 -3.45% 96
UK excluding London -122 255 £60,000 -14.29% 50
Work from Home -73 147 £72,500 -3.33% 50
South West +8 138 £52,500 -27.08% 21
London -25 131 £75,000 - 48
South East -47 45 £65,000 -10.34% 9
North of England -41 33 £52,500 -19.45% 7
North West -48 20 £52,500 -8.70% 3
East of England +11 15 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Yorkshire +52 12 £42,894 -38.72% 3
Scotland -83 9 £65,000 -13.33%
Wales +2 7 £50,685 - 2
Midlands -33 7 £87,500 +29.63% 5
East Midlands -13 5 £87,500 +9.38% 1
Northern Ireland +24 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -20 2 £80,000 +18.52% 4
North East -10 1 - - 1

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 37 (9.46%) Apache
2 30 (7.67%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.63%) OpenStack
4 12 (3.07%) nginx
5 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.05%) Confluence
7 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.02%) Drupal
7 4 (1.02%) JBoss
8 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 271 (69.31%) AWS
2 198 (50.64%) Azure
3 96 (24.55%) OpenShift
4 83 (21.23%) GCP
5 48 (12.28%) SaaS
6 46 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.00%) Serverless
8 41 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (8.70%) IaaS
11 33 (8.44%) Datadog
12 29 (7.42%) GitHub
13 28 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (7.16%) PaaS
14 27 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (5.88%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.32%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.20%) DNS
2 58 (14.83%) TCP/IP
3 53 (13.55%) HTTP
4 52 (13.30%) DHCP
5 45 (11.51%) Firewall
6 26 (6.65%) AMQP
7 19 (4.86%) VPN
8 18 (4.60%) SNMP
9 17 (4.35%) VSAN
9 17 (4.35%) WAN
10 15 (3.84%) LAN
10 15 (3.84%) OSPF
11 14 (3.58%) Internet
11 14 (3.58%) SSL
12 13 (3.32%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (3.07%) tcpdump
14 11 (2.81%) BGP
15 10 (2.56%) IPsec
16 9 (2.30%) IPv4
16 9 (2.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.49%) Big Data
2 33 (8.44%) MySQL
3 28 (7.16%) Hadoop
4 26 (6.65%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.12%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.07%) MariaDB
8 12 (3.07%) Redis
9 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.53%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.02%) Power BI
13 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
15 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 97 (24.81%) Git
1 97 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 58 (14.83%) GitLab
3 22 (5.63%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.07%) Subversion
5 10 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (2.30%) JIRA
6 9 (2.30%) Selenium
7 8 (2.05%) Maven
7 8 (2.05%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.28%) JUnit
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.77%) TestNG
10 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 59 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.00%) Aerospace
3 33 (8.44%) Finance
4 30 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.12%) Banking
6 18 (4.60%) Retail
7 14 (3.58%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.53%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Automotive
15 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 111 (28.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (23.27%) Senior
3 67 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (13.04%) Lead
5 44 (11.25%) Architect
6 43 (11.00%) Linux Engineer
7 38 (9.72%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (9.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 38 (9.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (8.95%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (6.91%) Systems Engineer
12 26 (6.65%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 26 (6.65%) Software Engineer
13 23 (5.88%) AWS Architect
14 22 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (5.12%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (4.86%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.95%) React
2 34 (8.70%) Node.js
3 31 (7.93%) REST
4 29 (7.42%) RabbitMQ
5 26 (6.65%) AngularJS
5 26 (6.65%) gRPC
5 26 (6.65%) Material-UI
5 26 (6.65%) OpenAPI
5 26 (6.65%) Spring
5 26 (6.65%) Spring Boot
5 26 (6.65%) Swagger
6 23 (5.88%) .NET
7 22 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (3.84%) YAML
9 11 (2.81%) HTML
9 11 (2.81%) XML
10 10 (2.56%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.56%) OAuth
11 8 (2.05%) 802.1X
11 8 (2.05%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.32%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.81%) Public Cloud
3 44 (11.25%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 21 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (3.84%) Clustering
9 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.53%) PKI
11 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.28%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.51%) Life Science
12 2 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 282 (72.12%) Linux
2 135 (34.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 126 (32.23%) Windows
4 65 (16.62%) CentOS
5 39 (9.97%) Unix
6 32 (8.18%) Debian
6 32 (8.18%) Ubuntu
7 24 (6.14%) Windows Server
8 20 (5.12%) CoreOS
9 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.53%) Mesosphere
10 6 (1.53%) Windows 10
10 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.77%) SUSE
11 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.77%) VMS
12 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (67.01%) DevOps
2 154 (39.39%) Configuration Management
3 141 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (33.76%) Agile
5 123 (31.46%) CI/CD
6 110 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 89 (22.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (13.81%) Collaborative Working
10 54 (13.81%) Open Source
11 52 (13.30%) Microservices
12 43 (11.00%) Time Management
13 41 (10.49%) Test Automation
14 39 (9.97%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (9.46%) Scrum
17 35 (8.95%) Kanban
17 35 (8.95%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 281 (71.87%) Python
2 177 (45.27%) Bash
3 120 (30.69%) PowerShell
4 114 (29.16%) Java
5 53 (13.55%) Perl
6 45 (11.51%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.67%) Ruby
8 29 (7.42%) Go
9 18 (4.60%) SQL
10 16 (4.09%) PHP
11 15 (3.84%) C#
12 12 (3.07%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.30%) Korn
13 9 (2.30%) TypeScript
14 8 (2.05%) C++
14 8 (2.05%) Groovy
15 4 (1.02%) C
15 4 (1.02%) Lua
15 4 (1.02%) Tcl
16 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 152 (38.87%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.62%) DV Cleared
3 69 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.39%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.39%) Degree
5 18 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.79%) CCNA
8 7 (1.79%) RHCE
9 5 (1.28%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.77%) CCNP
11 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.51%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.84%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 182 (46.55%) Docker
2 82 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (13.30%) Hyper-V
4 22 (5.63%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.12%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.86%) vSphere
7 13 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.56%) KVM
9 6 (1.53%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.53%) VirtualBox
10 5 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.77%) Ceph
11 3 (0.77%) Gluster
11 3 (0.77%) oVirt
12 2 (0.51%) Varnish
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 334 (85.42%) Ansible
2 242 (61.89%) Kubernetes
3 199 (50.90%) Terraform
4 130 (33.25%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.16%) vCenter Server
6 27 (6.91%) Grafana
7 25 (6.39%) Prometheus
8 21 (5.37%) ZABBIX
9 20 (5.12%) Salt
10 19 (4.86%) Nagios
11 18 (4.60%) Consul
12 13 (3.32%) HAProxy
12 13 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (3.07%) Packer
14 11 (2.81%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (2.56%) Graphite
16 8 (2.05%) Kibana
17 6 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 128 (32.74%) Red Hat
2 92 (23.53%) VMware
3 41 (10.49%) Microsoft
4 40 (10.23%) SaltStack
5 38 (9.72%) Google
6 31 (7.93%) Cisco
7 17 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 15 (3.84%) New Relic
8 15 (3.84%) Splunk
9 13 (3.32%) Juniper
10 11 (2.81%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.81%) Oracle
11 10 (2.56%) TOWER Software
12 9 (2.30%) Arista
12 9 (2.30%) Sun
13 8 (2.05%) Tufin
14 6 (1.53%) Citrix
14 6 (1.53%) ForgeRock
14 6 (1.53%) Veeam
14 6 (1.53%) Zscaler