Podman Contract Job Trends in the South West

Podman
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Podman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Podman 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £575 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +27.78% -28.00% -7.41%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 321 366 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.92% 14.82% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 236 349
10th Percentile £253 £363 £395
25th Percentile £425 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.35% +1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 18
10th Percentile £18.55 £12.50 £19.03
25th Percentile £31.72 £14.00 £64.06
Median hourly rate £61.50 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% -5.13% +97.47%
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £91.70 £74.18 £86.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.99% -27.67% +109.12%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Podman job vacancy trend in the South West

Podman
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Podman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Podman

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Podman in the South West over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the South West

Podman
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Podman within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Gloucestershire - 4 £544 -
Bristol - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £550 - 2
Podman
England

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) System Design Authority
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Cilium
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
3 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA
2 1 (16.67%) VMware