Podman Job Trends

Podman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Podman skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 692 703
Rank change year-on-year +48 +11 +324
Permanent jobs citing Podman 5 19 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.035% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.32% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 7
10th Percentile - - £52,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £110,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +57.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £59,375 £140,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £60,500 - £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Podman falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,159 5,920 7,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 11.05% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 3,602 6,091
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,275 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Podman relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Podman job vacancy trend in the UK

Podman
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Podman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Podman

Podman
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Podman within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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 +46 5 £55,000 -50.00% 9
UK excluding London +38 3 £55,000 - 6
London +48 2 £57,500 -47.73% 2
North West - 2 £55,000 - 2
North of England - 2 £55,000 - 2
South West - 1 £55,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Ant
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Scripter
2 2 (40.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Mirantis
2 2 (40.00%) VMware