diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6cc4c18bc42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - psrp connection plugin - ``to_text(stdout)`` before ``json.loads`` in psrp.Connection.put_file in case ``stdout`` is bytes.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
index 38a6259bcd2..f03eb8782ce 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         if rc != 0:
             raise AnsibleError(to_native(stderr))
 
-        put_output = json.loads(stdout)
+        put_output = json.loads(to_text(stdout))
         remote_sha1 = put_output.get("sha1")
 
         if not remote_sha1: