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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 386 312
Rank change year-on-year -154 -74 -123
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 387 848 2,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.86% 1.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.93% 5.81% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 293 498 986
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £54,063
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 £104,375
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 9,851 14,586 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 14.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,078 9,021 14,016
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 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.17% -0.46% +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 18 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 18 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 -113 366 £70,000 -3.45% 105
UK excluding London -138 255 £60,000 -14.29% 68
Work from Home -66 143 £70,576 -5.90% 51
South West -1 138 £52,500 -26.06% 20
London -36 128 £75,000 - 48
South East -53 46 £65,000 -10.34% 20
North of England -40 32 £52,500 -19.66% 9
North West -49 21 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England -1 14 £63,750 +41.67% 5
Yorkshire +46 10 £40,681 -41.88% 4
Scotland -87 9 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Wales +2 7 £50,685 - 3
Midlands -25 7 £87,500 +29.63% 12
East Midlands -5 5 £87,500 -12.50% 1
Northern Ireland +23 3 £70,000 -6.67%
West Midlands -7 2 £80,000 +18.52% 11
North East -10 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 (10.08%) Apache
2 31 (8.01%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.68%) OpenStack
4 13 (3.36%) nginx
5 8 (2.07%) Confluence
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.29%) JBoss
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.03%) Drupal
8 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 266 (68.73%) AWS
2 198 (51.16%) Azure
3 98 (25.32%) OpenShift
4 85 (21.96%) GCP
5 49 (12.66%) SaaS
6 47 (12.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.11%) Serverless
8 41 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (8.53%) Datadog
11 31 (8.01%) IaaS
12 29 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (7.24%) GitHub
14 27 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (6.98%) PaaS
15 21 (5.43%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (3.62%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 77 (19.90%) DNS
2 58 (14.99%) TCP/IP
3 55 (14.21%) HTTP
4 52 (13.44%) DHCP
5 44 (11.37%) Firewall
6 27 (6.98%) AMQP
7 19 (4.91%) VPN
8 17 (4.39%) SNMP
8 17 (4.39%) VSAN
8 17 (4.39%) WAN
9 15 (3.88%) LAN
9 15 (3.88%) OSPF
9 15 (3.88%) SSL
10 13 (3.36%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (3.36%) Internet
11 11 (2.84%) BGP
11 11 (2.84%) tcpdump
12 10 (2.58%) IPsec
13 9 (2.33%) IPv4
13 9 (2.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.85%) Big Data
2 32 (8.27%) MySQL
3 29 (7.49%) Hadoop
4 27 (6.98%) Cloudera CDH
5 22 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (4.91%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.10%) MariaDB
9 12 (3.10%) Redis
10 11 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.55%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.03%) Power BI
14 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
16 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 101 (26.10%) Jenkins
2 94 (24.29%) Git
3 60 (15.50%) GitLab
4 23 (5.94%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.10%) Subversion
6 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.58%) 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 (1.29%) 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%) Vagrant
General
1 61 (15.76%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.14%) Aerospace
3 31 (8.01%) Finance
4 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.17%) Banking
6 17 (4.39%) Retail
7 14 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.03%) Marketing
14 3 (0.78%) Advertising
14 3 (0.78%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Legal
14 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Automotive
15 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 110 (28.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (24.29%) Senior
3 66 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (12.66%) Lead
5 44 (11.37%) Architect
6 41 (10.59%) Linux Engineer
7 40 (10.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (9.82%) Senior DevOps
8 38 (9.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 34 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (6.98%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 27 (6.98%) Software Engineer
12 27 (6.98%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (5.94%) AWS Architect
15 20 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 19 (4.91%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.56%) React
2 35 (9.04%) Node.js
3 32 (8.27%) REST
4 31 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
5 27 (6.98%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.98%) gRPC
5 27 (6.98%) Material-UI
5 27 (6.98%) OpenAPI
5 27 (6.98%) Spring
5 27 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 27 (6.98%) Swagger
6 23 (5.94%) .NET
7 21 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (3.62%) YAML
9 12 (3.10%) HTML
9 12 (3.10%) OAuth
10 11 (2.84%) XML
11 10 (2.58%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.33%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.07%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.95%) Public Cloud
3 39 (10.08%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.20%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (3.62%) 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 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.29%) PKI
10 5 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.52%) Life Science
11 2 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 277 (71.58%) Linux
2 136 (35.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 124 (32.04%) Windows
4 65 (16.80%) CentOS
5 37 (9.56%) Unix
6 33 (8.53%) Debian
6 33 (8.53%) Ubuntu
7 23 (5.94%) Windows Server
8 19 (4.91%) CoreOS
9 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.55%) Mesosphere
10 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
10 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.78%) SUSE
11 3 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.78%) VMS
12 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (66.93%) DevOps
2 152 (39.28%) Configuration Management
3 136 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (34.37%) Agile
5 117 (30.23%) CI/CD
6 111 (28.68%) Containerisation
7 88 (22.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (14.73%) Collaborative Working
10 56 (14.47%) Open Source
11 55 (14.21%) Actionable Insight
12 53 (13.70%) Microservices
13 42 (10.85%) Time Management
14 40 (10.34%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.82%) Scrum
15 38 (9.82%) Test Automation
16 37 (9.56%) Continuous Integration
17 36 (9.30%) Kanban
17 36 (9.30%) Software Architecture
18 34 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 277 (71.58%) Python
2 176 (45.48%) Bash
3 116 (29.97%) PowerShell
4 114 (29.46%) Java
5 50 (12.92%) Perl
6 47 (12.14%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.75%) Ruby
8 26 (6.72%) Go
9 18 (4.65%) SQL
10 16 (4.13%) PHP
11 15 (3.88%) C#
12 12 (3.10%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.33%) Korn
13 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
14 8 (2.07%) C++
14 8 (2.07%) Groovy
15 4 (1.03%) C
15 4 (1.03%) Lua
15 4 (1.03%) Tcl
16 3 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 154 (39.79%) Security Cleared
2 107 (27.65%) DV Cleared
3 73 (18.86%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.72%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.72%) Degree
5 19 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.58%) 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 (1.29%) 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 (3.88%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 184 (47.55%) Docker
2 84 (21.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (13.70%) Hyper-V
4 20 (5.17%) Active Directory
5 19 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (4.91%) vSphere
6 13 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.58%) KVM
8 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.55%) VirtualBox
9 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.29%) 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
1 330 (85.27%) Ansible
2 244 (63.05%) Kubernetes
3 199 (51.42%) Terraform
4 133 (34.37%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.98%) vCenter Server
6 25 (6.46%) Grafana
6 25 (6.46%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.43%) ZABBIX
8 19 (4.91%) Nagios
9 18 (4.65%) Consul
10 16 (4.13%) Salt
11 15 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (3.10%) HAProxy
12 12 (3.10%) Packer
13 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (2.33%) Graphite
16 8 (2.07%) Kibana
17 6 (1.55%) Podman
17 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 130 (33.59%) Red Hat
2 94 (24.29%) VMware
3 41 (10.59%) SaltStack
4 40 (10.34%) Google
4 40 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 31 (8.01%) Cisco
6 17 (4.39%) Fortinet
7 16 (4.13%) New Relic
8 15 (3.88%) Splunk
9 13 (3.36%) Juniper
10 12 (3.10%) Atlassian
10 12 (3.10%) Oracle
11 10 (2.58%) TOWER Software
12 9 (2.33%) Arista
13 8 (2.07%) Tufin
14 7 (1.81%) Citrix
14 7 (1.81%) ForgeRock
14 7 (1.81%) Sun
14 7 (1.81%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.29%) Veeam