Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

puppet

183 live US technical postings name puppet in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 183 postings naming puppet that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer47%
  2. 2Software Engineer33.3%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer15.8%
  4. 4Security Engineer1.6%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where puppet is named
n = 106
10th
$126k
25th
$148k
Median
$172k
75th
$200k
90th
$222k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA6%
  2. 2Remote4.9%
  3. 3Chicago, IL4.4%
  4. 4New York, NY3.8%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.7%
  8. 8San Francisco, CA2.2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.