Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

puppet

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 198 postings naming puppet that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer50%
  2. 2Software Engineer30.3%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer14.6%
  4. 4Security Engineer2.5%
  5. 5Data Engineer1%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer1%

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 = 116
10th
$135k
25th
$150k
Median
$173k
75th
$200k
90th
$222k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA6.1%
  2. 2Remote5.1%
  3. 3Washington, DC4.5%
  4. 4Chicago, IL3.5%
  5. 5New York, NY3%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.