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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 356 396
Rank change year-on-year +13 +40 +109
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Podman 24 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.061% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% 0.49% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 12
10th Percentile £426 £460 £483
25th Percentile £473 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £574
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +13.29% -8.20%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £641
90th Percentile - - £695
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.75
25th Percentile - - £59.06
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,340 2,262 3,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 12.46% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 1,623 2,102
10th Percentile £235 £250 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.85% +1.46%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £622
90th Percentile £642 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 43 108
10th Percentile £17.79 £17.53 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £20.19
Median hourly rate £48.23 £40.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -13.38% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £62.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.15 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £34.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -7.69% -41.97% +157.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Podman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Podman

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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the UK excluding London

Podman
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Podman.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Podman

Podman
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +20 9 £501 -24.45% 2
Midlands - 5 £575 - 3
South West - 4 £544 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £588 - 3
North West -5 3 £650 +13.04% 3
North of England -18 3 £650 +13.04% 3
Scotland - 3 £458 -
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
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 2 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Datadog
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.17%) npm
6 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 12 (50.00%) GitLab
2 12 (50.00%) JIRA
3 10 (41.67%) Selenium
3 10 (41.67%) SonarQube
4 9 (37.50%) Cucumber
4 9 (37.50%) REST Assured
5 6 (25.00%) Git
6 3 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (8.33%) CircleCI
8 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (4.17%) Gradle
8 1 (4.17%) JUnit
8 1 (4.17%) Maven
8 1 (4.17%) Postman
8 1 (4.17%) Snyk
8 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Law
4 4 (16.67%) Police
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) REST
2 9 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 9 (37.50%) Java EE
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) pytest
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) Vue
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) OpenID
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) PKI
1 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Android
3 3 (12.50%) Windows
4 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Containerisation
2 17 (70.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (66.67%) DevOps
4 14 (58.33%) Configuration Management
4 14 (58.33%) Software Engineering
5 12 (50.00%) Software Architecture
5 12 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (29.17%) Agile
8 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
8 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
10 4 (16.67%) Scrum
11 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (12.50%) Kanban
11 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
11 3 (12.50%) UML
11 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) C++
5 3 (12.50%) C
5 3 (12.50%) Go
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (70.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
System Software
1 24 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (79.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (66.67%) Ansible
2 16 (66.67%) Terraform
3 9 (37.50%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (12.50%) SELinux
5 2 (8.33%) Grafana
5 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) RSA Archer
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Netskope
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Proofpoint
2 2 (8.33%) Symantec
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) VMware