Podman Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Podman
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Podman 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.63% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 23.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
East of England median daily rate £485 £467 -
% change year-on-year +3.97% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 51 21 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.91% 5.74% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 34
10th Percentile £418 £333 £323
25th Percentile £461 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £738
90th Percentile £681 £588 £863
East of England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £19.71 - £14.69
25th Percentile - £66.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £67.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.24% +275.00% -74.01%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £38.90
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -57.26% +147.37% -50.18%

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Podman in Hertfordshire

Podman
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Podman within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 12 £485 - 1
Podman
East of England

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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