Podman Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Podman
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Podman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Podman 12 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.65% 0.38% -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.74% 3.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £463 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £467 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% - -
75th Percentile £545 £472 -
90th Percentile £681 £473 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 155 113 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.41% 10.65% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 65 83
10th Percentile £190 £241 £225
25th Percentile £309 £315 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £525 £631
90th Percentile £638 £600 £738
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 24
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +147.37% -50.18%
75th Percentile £22.80 £58.25 £48.25
90th Percentile £24.66 £64.55 £77.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Podman relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Podman job vacancy trend in the East of England

Podman
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Podman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Podman

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Podman in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the East of England

Podman
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Podman within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 12 £485 - 1
Podman
England

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Aerospace
1 7 (58.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Administrator
2 7 (58.33%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) LDAP
1 7 (58.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (25.00%) Acoustics
3 3 (25.00%) Derivative
4 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (58.33%) CentOS
4 5 (41.67%) Debian
4 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Information Management
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) MATLAB
1 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Check_MK
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) NVIDIA
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft