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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 385 301
Rank change year-on-year -155 -84 -115
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 390 862 2,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.85% 1.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.94% 5.82% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 297 503 1,033
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,652
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £91,750 £102,250 £103,300
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 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 9 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 9 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 -101 369 £70,288 -3.05% 88
UK excluding London -120 254 £60,000 -14.29% 49
Work from Home -72 148 £72,500 -3.33% 42
South West +1 138 £52,500 -27.08% 22
London -42 131 £75,000 - 41
South East -57 45 £65,000 -7.14% 7
North of England -37 33 £52,500 -19.45% 7
North West -37 20 £52,500 -8.70% 3
East of England +11 14 £63,750 +41.67% 5
Yorkshire +54 12 £42,894 -38.72% 3
Scotland -90 9 £65,000 -13.33%
Wales -1 7 £50,685 - 2
Midlands -28 7 £87,500 +29.63% 5
East Midlands -14 5 £87,500 +9.38% 1
Northern Ireland +29 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -8 2 £80,000 +18.52% 4
North East -8 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 (9.49%) Apache
2 30 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.64%) OpenStack
4 12 (3.08%) nginx
5 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.05%) Confluence
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.03%) Drupal
7 4 (1.03%) JBoss
8 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 271 (69.49%) AWS
2 197 (50.51%) Azure
3 96 (24.62%) OpenShift
4 82 (21.03%) GCP
5 48 (12.31%) SaaS
6 46 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.03%) Serverless
8 41 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (8.72%) IaaS
11 33 (8.46%) Datadog
12 30 (7.69%) GitHub
13 28 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (7.18%) PaaS
14 26 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (5.90%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (3.33%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.26%) DNS
2 58 (14.87%) TCP/IP
3 53 (13.59%) HTTP
4 52 (13.33%) DHCP
5 44 (11.28%) Firewall
6 26 (6.67%) AMQP
7 18 (4.62%) SNMP
7 18 (4.62%) VPN
8 17 (4.36%) VSAN
8 17 (4.36%) WAN
9 15 (3.85%) LAN
9 15 (3.85%) OSPF
10 14 (3.59%) Internet
10 14 (3.59%) SSL
11 13 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (3.08%) tcpdump
13 11 (2.82%) BGP
14 10 (2.56%) IPsec
15 9 (2.31%) IPv4
15 9 (2.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.51%) Big Data
2 33 (8.46%) MySQL
3 28 (7.18%) Hadoop
4 26 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.08%) MariaDB
8 12 (3.08%) Redis
9 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.54%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.03%) 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 98 (25.13%) Git
2 96 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 58 (14.87%) GitLab
4 22 (5.64%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.08%) Subversion
6 10 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.31%) JIRA
7 9 (2.31%) Selenium
8 8 (2.05%) Maven
8 8 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.28%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.28%) JUnit
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.77%) TestNG
11 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 58 (14.87%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.03%) Aerospace
3 33 (8.46%) Finance
4 30 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.13%) Banking
6 18 (4.62%) Retail
7 14 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.54%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.03%) 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
1 110 (28.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (23.33%) Senior
3 68 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (13.33%) Lead
5 44 (11.28%) Architect
6 43 (11.03%) Linux Engineer
7 38 (9.74%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (9.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 38 (9.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (6.92%) Systems Engineer
12 26 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 26 (6.67%) Software Engineer
13 23 (5.90%) AWS Architect
14 22 (5.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (4.87%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.97%) React
2 34 (8.72%) Node.js
3 31 (7.95%) REST
4 29 (7.44%) RabbitMQ
5 26 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 26 (6.67%) gRPC
5 26 (6.67%) Material-UI
5 26 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 26 (6.67%) Spring
5 26 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 26 (6.67%) Swagger
6 23 (5.90%) .NET
7 22 (5.64%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (3.85%) YAML
9 11 (2.82%) HTML
9 11 (2.82%) 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 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.85%) Public Cloud
3 44 (11.28%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (5.90%) Data Centre
5 21 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (4.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (3.85%) Clustering
9 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.54%) 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 (72.31%) Linux
2 135 (34.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 127 (32.56%) Windows
4 65 (16.67%) CentOS
5 38 (9.74%) Unix
6 32 (8.21%) Ubuntu
7 31 (7.95%) Debian
8 25 (6.41%) Windows Server
9 20 (5.13%) CoreOS
10 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.54%) Mesosphere
11 6 (1.54%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.77%) VMS
13 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (67.18%) DevOps
2 152 (38.97%) Configuration Management
3 141 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (33.85%) Agile
5 123 (31.54%) CI/CD
6 110 (28.21%) Containerisation
7 90 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (14.62%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (13.85%) Collaborative Working
10 54 (13.85%) Open Source
11 52 (13.33%) Microservices
12 43 (11.03%) Time Management
13 41 (10.51%) Test Automation
14 39 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.74%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (9.49%) Scrum
17 35 (8.97%) Kanban
17 35 (8.97%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 280 (71.79%) Python
2 176 (45.13%) Bash
3 120 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 114 (29.23%) Java
5 53 (13.59%) Perl
6 45 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 31 (7.95%) Ruby
8 29 (7.44%) Go
9 18 (4.62%) SQL
10 16 (4.10%) PHP
11 15 (3.85%) C#
12 12 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.56%) Korn
14 9 (2.31%) TypeScript
15 8 (2.05%) C++
15 8 (2.05%) Groovy
16 4 (1.03%) C
16 4 (1.03%) Lua
16 4 (1.03%) Tcl
17 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 152 (38.97%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.69%) DV Cleared
3 69 (17.69%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 24 (6.15%) Degree
6 17 (4.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
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 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 182 (46.67%) Docker
2 82 (21.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 22 (5.64%) Active Directory
5 20 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.87%) vSphere
7 13 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.56%) KVM
9 6 (1.54%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.54%) 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
1 333 (85.38%) Ansible
2 242 (62.05%) Kubernetes
3 199 (51.03%) Terraform
4 129 (33.08%) Progress Chef
5 28 (7.18%) vCenter Server
6 27 (6.92%) Grafana
7 25 (6.41%) Prometheus
8 20 (5.13%) Salt
8 20 (5.13%) ZABBIX
9 19 (4.87%) Nagios
10 18 (4.62%) Consul
11 13 (3.33%) HAProxy
11 13 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (3.08%) Packer
12 12 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (2.56%) Graphite
14 8 (2.05%) Kibana
15 6 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 128 (32.82%) Red Hat
2 92 (23.59%) VMware
3 41 (10.51%) Microsoft
4 40 (10.26%) SaltStack
5 38 (9.74%) Google
6 31 (7.95%) Cisco
7 17 (4.36%) Fortinet
8 15 (3.85%) New Relic
8 15 (3.85%) Splunk
9 13 (3.33%) Juniper
10 11 (2.82%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.82%) Oracle
10 11 (2.82%) TOWER Software
11 10 (2.56%) Sun
12 9 (2.31%) Arista
13 8 (2.05%) Tufin
14 6 (1.54%) Citrix
14 6 (1.54%) ForgeRock
14 6 (1.54%) Veeam
14 6 (1.54%) Zscaler