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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 388 309
Rank change year-on-year -150 -79 -117
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 386 849 2,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.85% 1.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.92% 5.81% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 292 499 983
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £104,750
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 9,846 14,620 29,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.70% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 9,072 14,136
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%
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 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

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 20 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 20 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 -117 366 £70,000 -3.45% 112
UK excluding London -127 255 £60,000 -14.29% 78
Work from Home -52 142 £70,576 -5.90% 53
South West +2 139 £52,500 -26.06% 20
London -37 127 £75,000 - 48
South East -45 46 £65,000 -10.34% 24
North of England -60 32 £52,500 -19.66% 10
North West -56 21 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England +1 14 £63,750 +41.67% 6
Yorkshire +44 10 £40,681 -41.88% 5
Scotland -89 9 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Midlands -23 7 £87,500 +29.63% 13
Wales +3 6 £50,685 - 4
East Midlands -15 5 £87,500 -12.50% 1
Northern Ireland +33 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -6 2 £80,000 +18.52% 12
North East -5 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 39 (10.10%) Apache
2 31 (8.03%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.70%) OpenStack
4 13 (3.37%) nginx
5 8 (2.07%) Confluence
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.30%) JBoss
7 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.04%) Drupal
8 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 266 (68.91%) AWS
2 197 (51.04%) Azure
3 98 (25.39%) OpenShift
4 85 (22.02%) GCP
5 49 (12.69%) SaaS
6 47 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.14%) Serverless
8 41 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (8.55%) Datadog
11 32 (8.29%) IaaS
12 29 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (7.25%) PaaS
14 27 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (6.99%) GitHub
15 21 (5.44%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (3.63%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 77 (19.95%) DNS
2 58 (15.03%) TCP/IP
3 55 (14.25%) HTTP
4 52 (13.47%) DHCP
5 44 (11.40%) Firewall
6 27 (6.99%) AMQP
7 19 (4.92%) VPN
8 17 (4.40%) SNMP
8 17 (4.40%) VSAN
8 17 (4.40%) WAN
9 15 (3.89%) LAN
9 15 (3.89%) OSPF
9 15 (3.89%) SSL
10 13 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (3.37%) Internet
11 11 (2.85%) BGP
11 11 (2.85%) tcpdump
12 10 (2.59%) IPsec
13 9 (2.33%) IPv4
13 9 (2.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.88%) Big Data
2 32 (8.29%) MySQL
3 29 (7.51%) Hadoop
4 27 (6.99%) Cloudera CDH
5 21 (5.44%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.66%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.11%) MariaDB
10 11 (2.85%) Redis
11 10 (2.59%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.55%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.04%) Power BI
15 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
16 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
17 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 101 (26.17%) Jenkins
2 93 (24.09%) Git
3 59 (15.28%) GitLab
4 23 (5.96%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.11%) Subversion
6 10 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.33%) JIRA
7 9 (2.33%) Selenium
7 9 (2.33%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.07%) Maven
9 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.30%) JUnit
11 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.78%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.78%) TestNG
11 3 (0.78%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
General
1 61 (15.80%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.18%) Aerospace
3 30 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (7.77%) Finance
4 19 (4.92%) Banking
5 17 (4.40%) Retail
6 13 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.04%) Marketing
13 3 (0.78%) Advertising
13 3 (0.78%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Legal
13 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Automotive
14 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 109 (28.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (24.09%) Senior
3 64 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (12.69%) Lead
5 45 (11.66%) Architect
6 41 (10.62%) Linux Engineer
7 39 (10.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (9.59%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (9.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 34 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (6.99%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 27 (6.99%) Software Engineer
12 27 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (6.22%) AWS Architect
15 21 (5.44%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (5.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 19 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.59%) React
2 35 (9.07%) Node.js
3 32 (8.29%) REST
4 31 (8.03%) RabbitMQ
5 27 (6.99%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.99%) gRPC
5 27 (6.99%) Material-UI
5 27 (6.99%) OpenAPI
5 27 (6.99%) Spring
5 27 (6.99%) Spring Boot
5 27 (6.99%) Swagger
6 23 (5.96%) .NET
7 21 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (3.63%) YAML
9 12 (3.11%) HTML
9 12 (3.11%) OAuth
10 11 (2.85%) XML
11 10 (2.59%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.33%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.07%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 55 (14.25%) Public Cloud
3 39 (10.10%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (3.63%) Clustering
9 7 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.30%) PKI
10 5 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.52%) Life Science
11 2 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 276 (71.50%) Linux
2 135 (34.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 122 (31.61%) Windows
4 65 (16.84%) CentOS
5 37 (9.59%) Unix
6 33 (8.55%) Debian
7 32 (8.29%) Ubuntu
8 21 (5.44%) Windows Server
9 19 (4.92%) 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
1 258 (66.84%) DevOps
2 152 (39.38%) Configuration Management
3 136 (35.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (34.46%) Agile
5 116 (30.05%) CI/CD
6 112 (29.02%) Containerisation
7 87 (22.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (14.77%) Collaborative Working
10 56 (14.51%) Open Source
11 55 (14.25%) Actionable Insight
12 53 (13.73%) Microservices
13 42 (10.88%) Time Management
14 40 (10.36%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.84%) Scrum
15 38 (9.84%) Test Automation
16 37 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
17 36 (9.33%) Kanban
17 36 (9.33%) Software Architecture
18 34 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 277 (71.76%) Python
2 175 (45.34%) Bash
3 114 (29.53%) Java
3 114 (29.53%) PowerShell
4 49 (12.69%) Perl
5 47 (12.18%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.51%) Ruby
7 26 (6.74%) Go
8 18 (4.66%) SQL
9 16 (4.15%) PHP
10 15 (3.89%) C#
11 12 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.07%) C++
13 8 (2.07%) Groovy
13 8 (2.07%) Korn
14 4 (1.04%) C
14 4 (1.04%) Lua
14 4 (1.04%) Tcl
15 3 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 155 (40.16%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.98%) DV Cleared
3 73 (18.91%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.74%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.74%) Degree
5 19 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.81%) CCNA
8 7 (1.81%) RHCE
9 5 (1.30%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.78%) CCNP
11 2 (0.52%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.52%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.89%) QA
System Software
1 183 (47.41%) Docker
2 83 (21.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (13.73%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (4.92%) vSphere
5 18 (4.66%) Active Directory
6 13 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.59%) KVM
8 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.55%) VirtualBox
9 5 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.30%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.78%) Ceph
10 3 (0.78%) Gluster
10 3 (0.78%) oVirt
11 2 (0.52%) Varnish
11 2 (0.52%) XenApp
11 2 (0.52%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 329 (85.23%) Ansible
2 245 (63.47%) Kubernetes
3 199 (51.55%) Terraform
4 133 (34.46%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.99%) vCenter Server
6 25 (6.48%) Grafana
6 25 (6.48%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.44%) ZABBIX
8 19 (4.92%) Nagios
9 18 (4.66%) Consul
10 16 (4.15%) Salt
11 15 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (3.11%) HAProxy
12 12 (3.11%) Packer
13 10 (2.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (2.59%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (2.33%) Graphite
15 8 (2.07%) Kibana
16 6 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 129 (33.42%) Red Hat
2 93 (24.09%) VMware
3 41 (10.62%) SaltStack
4 40 (10.36%) Google
5 39 (10.10%) Microsoft
6 31 (8.03%) Cisco
7 17 (4.40%) Fortinet
8 16 (4.15%) New Relic
9 15 (3.89%) Splunk
10 13 (3.37%) Juniper
11 12 (3.11%) Atlassian
11 12 (3.11%) Oracle
12 9 (2.33%) Arista
12 9 (2.33%) TOWER Software
13 8 (2.07%) Tufin
14 7 (1.81%) Citrix
14 7 (1.81%) ForgeRock
14 7 (1.81%) Zscaler
15 6 (1.55%) Sun
16 5 (1.30%) Veeam