Podman Contract Job Trends

Podman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Podman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 491 566
Rank change year-on-year -107 +75 +89
Contract jobs citing Podman 52 34 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 0.73% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 24
10th Percentile £421 £446 £386
25th Percentile £467 £469 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -4.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £689 £595 £688
90th Percentile £732 £651 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £498 £675
% change year-on-year +25.50% -26.22% +26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,646 4,654 5,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 15.81% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,529 3,131 3,837
10th Percentile £325 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 50 97
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £15.43
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -40.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -5.88%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Podman job vacancy trend in the UK

Podman
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Podman over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the UK

Podman
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Podman
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England -99 49 £558 +6.19% 6
UK excluding London -65 45 £625 +25.50% 9
Midlands -48 18 £625 +38.89%
East of England -10 16 £483 +3.43%
East Midlands -10 13 £650 +116.67%
Work from Home -50 9 £666 - 8
West Midlands -55 5 £625 +4.17%
South East -76 5 £690 +37.86% 4
South West -21 4 £688 +18.28% 1
London -75 4 £556 +1.14%
Scotland -10 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

Podman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (26.92%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 7 (13.46%) GCP
4 6 (11.54%) Serverless
5 5 (9.62%) GitHub
6 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.85%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) MQTT
1 4 (7.69%) Network Security
1 4 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.85%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Git
2 16 (30.77%) GitLab
2 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.77%) JIRA
5 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.85%) Gatling
6 1 (1.92%) Ant
6 1 (1.92%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Aerospace
3 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Administrator
2 11 (21.15%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (11.54%) Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Performance Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) Middleware
2 11 (21.15%) LDAP
3 8 (15.38%) Kafka
4 6 (11.54%) gRPC
5 4 (7.69%) Keycloak
5 4 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (7.69%) RESTful
6 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.77%) Node.js
6 3 (5.77%) React
6 3 (5.77%) Vue
7 2 (3.85%) SignalR
7 2 (3.85%) WebAssembly
7 2 (3.85%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Beowulf
2 11 (21.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (19.23%) Management Information System
4 5 (9.62%) Contract for Difference
4 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.77%) Acoustics
5 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.77%) Derivative
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 17 (32.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (21.15%) CentOS
4 5 (9.62%) Debian
4 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
5 4 (7.69%) Windows
6 3 (5.77%) VMS
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) Containerisation
2 18 (34.62%) AI
3 14 (26.92%) SDLC
4 13 (25.00%) Data Science
4 13 (25.00%) Use Case
5 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
5 11 (21.15%) Information Management
5 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 9 (17.31%) Machine Learning
7 7 (13.46%) DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (11.54%) Microservices
8 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.62%) Agile
9 5 (9.62%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Workflow
10 4 (7.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Shell Script
2 11 (21.15%) MATLAB
2 11 (21.15%) Python
3 10 (19.23%) Bash
4 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Rust
5 4 (7.69%) Java
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) Groovy
7 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (73.08%) SC Cleared
1 38 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (5.77%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.77%) MCSE
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.77%) RHCA
5 3 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (51.92%) Docker
2 14 (26.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.62%) QEMU
4 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.92%) Firmware
6 1 (1.92%) NFS
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
2 30 (57.69%) Ansible
3 13 (25.00%) Terraform
4 11 (21.15%) Check_MK
4 11 (21.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 8 (15.38%) Grafana
6 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (11.54%) Puppet
8 2 (3.85%) Argo
9 1 (1.92%) Kibana
9 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.92%) SELinux
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Red Hat
1 15 (28.85%) VMware
2 11 (21.15%) NVIDIA
3 5 (9.62%) Google
4 4 (7.69%) Tenable
5 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.92%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.92%) Brocade
6 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.92%) IBM