diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..870461151e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - 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 81b77c68cb2..9e73382d9b5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ 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: