Podman Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Podman
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Podman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 159 181
Rank change year-on-year -41 +22 +46
Contract jobs citing Podman 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 0.87% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £638 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile - £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £700
% change year-on-year - -17.86% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 931 575 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.91% 16.12% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 331 491
10th Percentile £300 £250 £270
25th Percentile £400 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £586 £583
90th Percentile £632 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.67 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% - +75.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £72.13 £75.64 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Podman job vacancy trend in the North of England

Podman
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Podman
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Podman.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Podman

Podman
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
North West -34 3 £650 +13.04% 1
North East - 2 £600 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Podman
England

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
6 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) SELinux
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Argo
5 1 (16.67%) Grafana
5 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) NetApp
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) VMware