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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 384 301
Rank change year-on-year -161 -83 -121
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 392 888 2,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.86% 1.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.93% 5.84% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 298 517 1,071
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,770 £57,500 £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 £92,500 £100,650 £102,250
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 9,987 15,208 28,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 14.65% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 9,346 14,192
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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 3 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 3 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 -110 371 £70,576 -1.98% 99
UK excluding London -100 256 £60,000 -12.73% 51
Work from Home -57 151 £72,500 -3.33% 49
South West -1 140 £52,500 -27.08% 20
London -31 132 £75,000 - 48
South East -51 44 £65,000 -8.77% 8
North of England -39 34 £52,500 -19.45% 9
North West -45 20 £52,500 -4.55% 4
East of England +6 14 £63,750 +41.67% 5
Yorkshire +43 13 £42,894 -38.72% 5
Scotland -88 9 £65,000 -13.33%
Wales +2 7 £50,685 - 2
Midlands -5 7 £87,500 +29.63% 6
East Midlands -3 5 £87,500 +9.38% 1
Northern Ireland +31 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -4 2 £80,000 +18.52% 5
North East -8 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 34 (8.67%) Apache
2 29 (7.40%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.61%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.81%) nginx
5 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.04%) Confluence
7 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.02%) Drupal
8 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.77%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 272 (69.39%) AWS
2 198 (50.51%) Azure
3 96 (24.49%) OpenShift
4 81 (20.66%) GCP
5 50 (12.76%) SaaS
6 46 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (10.46%) Serverless
8 39 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (8.93%) IaaS
10 31 (7.91%) Datadog
10 31 (7.91%) GitHub
11 29 (7.40%) PaaS
12 27 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (5.87%) Amazon S3
14 16 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.32%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 80 (20.41%) DNS
2 59 (15.05%) TCP/IP
3 53 (13.52%) DHCP
3 53 (13.52%) HTTP
4 44 (11.22%) Firewall
5 25 (6.38%) AMQP
6 18 (4.59%) SNMP
6 18 (4.59%) VPN
7 17 (4.34%) VSAN
7 17 (4.34%) WAN
8 15 (3.83%) LAN
8 15 (3.83%) OSPF
9 14 (3.57%) Internet
10 13 (3.32%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (3.32%) SSL
11 11 (2.81%) BGP
11 11 (2.81%) tcpdump
12 10 (2.55%) IPsec
13 9 (2.30%) IPv4
13 9 (2.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.20%) Big Data
2 33 (8.42%) MySQL
3 27 (6.89%) Hadoop
4 25 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.10%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.06%) MariaDB
7 12 (3.06%) Redis
8 11 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.55%) 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 99 (25.26%) Git
2 94 (23.98%) Jenkins
3 58 (14.80%) GitLab
4 21 (5.36%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.06%) Subversion
6 10 (2.55%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.30%) JIRA
7 9 (2.30%) Selenium
8 8 (2.04%) Maven
9 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.28%) JUnit
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.02%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
12 3 (0.77%) TestNG
12 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
12 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
13 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 54 (13.78%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.46%) Aerospace
3 36 (9.18%) Finance
4 30 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.61%) Banking
6 19 (4.85%) Retail
7 16 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.79%) 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%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 106 (27.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (22.96%) Senior
3 72 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (13.01%) Lead
5 44 (11.22%) Architect
6 42 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
7 39 (9.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (9.44%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (9.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 25 (6.38%) Software Engineer
14 24 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (5.87%) AWS Architect
16 20 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
17 18 (4.59%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.67%) Node.js
1 34 (8.67%) React
2 31 (7.91%) REST
3 28 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 25 (6.38%) AngularJS
4 25 (6.38%) gRPC
4 25 (6.38%) Material-UI
4 25 (6.38%) OpenAPI
4 25 (6.38%) Spring
4 25 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 25 (6.38%) Swagger
5 22 (5.61%) .NET
5 22 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (3.83%) YAML
7 11 (2.81%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.81%) XML
8 10 (2.55%) HTML
9 9 (2.30%) OAuth
10 8 (2.04%) 802.1X
11 7 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.78%) Public Cloud
3 45 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 22 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.34%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (3.83%) Clustering
8 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.53%) PKI
11 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
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
13 1 (0.26%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 285 (72.70%) Linux
2 136 (34.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 133 (33.93%) Windows
4 63 (16.07%) CentOS
5 38 (9.69%) Unix
6 30 (7.65%) Debian
6 30 (7.65%) Ubuntu
7 28 (7.14%) Windows Server
8 20 (5.10%) 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
1 265 (67.60%) DevOps
2 148 (37.76%) Configuration Management
3 140 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (33.16%) Agile
5 124 (31.63%) CI/CD
6 108 (27.55%) Containerisation
7 93 (23.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 79 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (15.31%) Actionable Insight
10 52 (13.27%) Collaborative Working
10 52 (13.27%) Open Source
11 49 (12.50%) Microservices
12 43 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 42 (10.71%) Time Management
14 39 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.69%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (9.44%) Scrum
16 37 (9.44%) Software Architecture
17 35 (8.93%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 283 (72.19%) Python
2 181 (46.17%) Bash
3 126 (32.14%) PowerShell
4 116 (29.59%) Java
5 55 (14.03%) Perl
6 44 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.42%) Ruby
8 28 (7.14%) Go
9 18 (4.59%) SQL
10 16 (4.08%) PHP
11 15 (3.83%) C#
12 12 (3.06%) Korn
13 11 (2.81%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.55%) TypeScript
15 8 (2.04%) C++
15 8 (2.04%) Groovy
16 4 (1.02%) C
16 4 (1.02%) Lua
16 4 (1.02%) Tcl
17 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 153 (39.03%) Security Cleared
2 110 (28.06%) DV Cleared
3 68 (17.35%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.12%) Degree
5 17 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.79%) CCNA
9 6 (1.53%) RHCE
10 5 (1.28%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.77%) CCNP
12 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.26%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 187 (47.70%) Docker
2 85 (21.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (14.03%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.12%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.10%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.85%) vSphere
7 14 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.30%) KVM
9 6 (1.53%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.53%) VirtualBox
10 5 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.77%) Ceph
12 3 (0.77%) Gluster
12 3 (0.77%) oVirt
13 2 (0.51%) Varnish
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) XenApp
14 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 337 (85.97%) Ansible
2 240 (61.22%) Kubernetes
3 197 (50.26%) Terraform
4 127 (32.40%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 26 (6.63%) Grafana
7 23 (5.87%) Prometheus
8 21 (5.36%) Salt
8 21 (5.36%) ZABBIX
9 19 (4.85%) Nagios
10 17 (4.34%) Consul
11 14 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (3.32%) HAProxy
13 12 (3.06%) Packer
13 12 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (2.55%) Graphite
15 9 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (2.04%) Kibana
17 6 (1.53%) NetBackup
17 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 129 (32.91%) Red Hat
2 95 (24.23%) VMware
3 44 (11.22%) Microsoft
4 40 (10.20%) SaltStack
5 37 (9.44%) Google
6 31 (7.91%) Cisco
7 17 (4.34%) Fortinet
8 15 (3.83%) New Relic
9 13 (3.32%) Juniper
9 13 (3.32%) Splunk
9 13 (3.32%) TOWER Software
10 12 (3.06%) Sun
11 11 (2.81%) Oracle
12 10 (2.55%) Atlassian
13 9 (2.30%) Arista
14 8 (2.04%) Citrix
14 8 (2.04%) Tufin
15 6 (1.53%) ForgeRock
15 6 (1.53%) Veeam
15 6 (1.53%) Zscaler