Puppet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Puppet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Puppet over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 382 312
Rank change year-on-year -170 -70 -102
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 385 779 2,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.84% 1.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.88% 5.84% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 285 479 949
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,050 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,915 13,333 32,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.02% 14.42% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,975 8,608 14,120
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +2.63% +5.45%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -129 365 £70,000 - 88
UK excluding London -145 258 £60,000 -11.11% 58
South West -12 133 £52,500 -25.00% 11
Work from Home -95 131 £65,000 -13.33% 55
London -35 123 £75,000 - 30
South East -74 48 £65,000 - 20
North of England -75 35 £52,500 -20.96% 10
North West -70 22 £52,500 -19.23% 5
East of England -11 18 £61,250 +28.95% 10
Yorkshire +26 12 £45,107 -33.17% 4
Scotland -94 9 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Midlands -48 7 £87,500 +29.63% 7
Wales +7 6 £50,685 - 2
East Midlands -25 5 £87,500 -12.50% 3
Northern Ireland +21 3 £70,000 -6.67%
West Midlands -25 2 £80,000 +18.52% 4
North East -20 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 43 (11.17%) Apache
2 33 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.71%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.64%) nginx
5 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.56%) JBoss
7 5 (1.30%) Confluence
8 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (1.04%) Drupal
9 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 256 (66.49%) AWS
2 197 (51.17%) Azure
3 97 (25.19%) OpenShift
4 87 (22.60%) GCP
5 50 (12.99%) SaaS
6 49 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (10.91%) Serverless
8 41 (10.65%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (7.53%) Datadog
10 29 (7.53%) IaaS
11 25 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (6.23%) PaaS
13 21 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (4.94%) GitHub
15 15 (3.90%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.64%) Azure AKS
17 13 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 71 (18.44%) DNS
2 58 (15.06%) HTTP
3 57 (14.81%) TCP/IP
4 52 (13.51%) DHCP
5 42 (10.91%) Firewall
6 29 (7.53%) AMQP
7 22 (5.71%) VPN
8 17 (4.42%) VSAN
8 17 (4.42%) WAN
9 16 (4.16%) SSL
10 15 (3.90%) LAN
10 15 (3.90%) OSPF
10 15 (3.90%) SNMP
11 13 (3.38%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (2.86%) Internet
13 10 (2.60%) BGP
13 10 (2.60%) IPsec
13 10 (2.60%) IPv4
13 10 (2.60%) tcpdump
14 8 (2.08%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.43%) Big Data
2 31 (8.05%) Hadoop
3 30 (7.79%) MySQL
4 29 (7.53%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (4.42%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.12%) MariaDB
9 11 (2.86%) Redis
10 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.56%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.30%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.04%) Power BI
15 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
17 1 (0.26%) Flink
17 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 97 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 89 (23.12%) Git
3 60 (15.58%) GitLab
4 20 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (2.60%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.34%) Selenium
7 8 (2.08%) Maven
7 8 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.08%) Subversion
8 7 (1.82%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.56%) JIRA
9 6 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.30%) JUnit
11 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.78%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.78%) TestNG
11 3 (0.78%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 69 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.51%) Aerospace
3 35 (9.09%) Finance
4 29 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.45%) Banking
6 17 (4.42%) Retail
7 16 (4.16%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.04%) Marketing
13 3 (0.78%) Advertising
13 3 (0.78%) Automotive
13 3 (0.78%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Legal
13 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 105 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (25.19%) Senior
3 68 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (11.95%) Architect
4 46 (11.95%) Lead
5 42 (10.91%) Linux Engineer
5 42 (10.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (8.83%) Senior DevOps
6 34 (8.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 31 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 29 (7.53%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 29 (7.53%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.71%) AWS Architect
11 19 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.16%) AWS Consultant
12 16 (4.16%) Cloud Consultant
12 16 (4.16%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.39%) React
2 37 (9.61%) Node.js
3 34 (8.83%) REST
4 33 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
5 31 (8.05%) Spring
6 30 (7.79%) Spring Boot
7 29 (7.53%) AngularJS
7 29 (7.53%) gRPC
7 29 (7.53%) Material-UI
7 29 (7.53%) OpenAPI
7 29 (7.53%) Swagger
8 19 (4.94%) .NET
9 18 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.64%) HTML
11 13 (3.38%) OAuth
12 12 (3.12%) YAML
13 11 (2.86%) Keycloak
13 11 (2.86%) XML
14 10 (2.60%) ARM Templates
15 9 (2.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.03%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.73%) Public Cloud
3 34 (8.83%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (7.79%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.38%) Clustering
8 8 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.30%) PKI
11 5 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.52%) Life Science
14 1 (0.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 280 (72.73%) Linux
2 140 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 126 (32.73%) Windows
4 65 (16.88%) CentOS
5 38 (9.87%) Debian
6 37 (9.61%) Unix
7 36 (9.35%) Ubuntu
8 24 (6.23%) Windows Server
9 17 (4.42%) CoreOS
10 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.56%) Mesosphere
11 6 (1.56%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.78%) SUSE
12 3 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.78%) VMS
13 2 (0.52%) Rocky
14 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (65.97%) DevOps
2 154 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 133 (34.55%) Agile
4 121 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 105 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 93 (24.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 80 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (16.62%) Open Source
10 60 (15.58%) Collaborative Working
11 54 (14.03%) Microservices
12 51 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
13 40 (10.39%) Mentoring
13 40 (10.39%) Scrum
14 39 (10.13%) Time Management
15 38 (9.87%) Kanban
16 36 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (9.35%) Software Architecture
16 36 (9.35%) Software Engineering
17 31 (8.05%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 273 (70.91%) Python
2 177 (45.97%) Bash
3 121 (31.43%) PowerShell
4 108 (28.05%) Java
5 48 (12.47%) JavaScript
6 47 (12.21%) Perl
7 35 (9.09%) Ruby
8 23 (5.97%) Go
9 20 (5.19%) SQL
10 16 (4.16%) PHP
11 15 (3.90%) C#
11 15 (3.90%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.86%) Korn
13 10 (2.60%) C++
14 9 (2.34%) TypeScript
15 8 (2.08%) Groovy
16 5 (1.30%) C
17 4 (1.04%) Lua
17 4 (1.04%) Tcl
18 3 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 156 (40.52%) Security Cleared
2 107 (27.79%) DV Cleared
3 76 (19.74%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.27%) Degree
5 23 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.08%) RHCE
11 7 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.82%) CCNA
12 5 (1.30%) 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 (3.90%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 172 (44.68%) Docker
2 92 (23.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (13.51%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.94%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (4.94%) vSphere
5 17 (4.42%) Active Directory
6 14 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.86%) KVM
8 8 (2.08%) XenApp
8 8 (2.08%) XenDesktop
9 7 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.82%) VirtualBox
10 5 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (1.30%) DFS Replication
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
1 328 (85.19%) Ansible
2 233 (60.52%) Kubernetes
3 194 (50.39%) Terraform
4 132 (34.29%) Progress Chef
5 27 (7.01%) vCenter Server
6 26 (6.75%) Prometheus
7 24 (6.23%) Grafana
8 22 (5.71%) ZABBIX
9 18 (4.68%) Nagios
10 16 (4.16%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (3.64%) Consul
12 13 (3.38%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (2.60%) HAProxy
15 9 (2.34%) Packer
16 7 (1.82%) Graphite
16 7 (1.82%) Kibana
17 6 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (1.56%) Red Hat Spacewalk
17 6 (1.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 133 (34.55%) Red Hat
2 104 (27.01%) VMware
3 44 (11.43%) Google
3 44 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 43 (11.17%) SaltStack
5 32 (8.31%) Cisco
6 18 (4.68%) New Relic
6 18 (4.68%) Splunk
7 16 (4.16%) Fortinet
8 14 (3.64%) Oracle
9 13 (3.38%) Citrix
9 13 (3.38%) Juniper
10 11 (2.86%) TOWER Software
11 9 (2.34%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.08%) Arista
12 8 (2.08%) Tufin
13 7 (1.82%) ForgeRock
13 7 (1.82%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.30%) Veeam
15 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow