Podman Contracts in the UK excluding London

Podman
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Podman skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Podman over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 383 438
Rank change year-on-year +65 +55 +53
Contract jobs citing Podman 18 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.077% 0.100%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.96% 0.68% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 19
10th Percentile £397 £485 £461
25th Percentile £453 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £501 £688 £650
90th Percentile £506 £723 £658
UK median daily rate £501 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -19.92% -3.85% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £58.75

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Podman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Podman in the UK excluding London

Podman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Podman in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Podman in the UK excluding London

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Podman in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the UK excluding London

Podman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Podman in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Podman in the UK excluding London

Podman
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Podman within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +41 9 £501 -25.85% 3
East of England - 4 £467 -
Scotland - 2 £458 - 1
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
South West - 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Podman
UK

Podman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
1 9 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (50.00%) Selenium
1 9 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Law
4 4 (22.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 9 (50.00%) Java EE
1 9 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 2 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
1 4 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Containerisation
2 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
3 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL
6 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
6 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
6 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (22.22%) Capacity Management
7 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Proactive Maintenance
7 4 (22.22%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (61.11%) Terraform
3 10 (55.56%) Ansible
4 9 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (11.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Netskope
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Proofpoint
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat