Podman Contracts

Podman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 578 650
Rank change year-on-year +88 +72 +171
Contract jobs citing Podman 29 22 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.050% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.43% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 49
10th Percentile £442 £450 £498
25th Percentile £467 £463 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% -1.92% +3.17%
75th Percentile £569 £688 £700
90th Percentile £620 £716 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -28.26% +8.00% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £58.75

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Podman
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Podman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Podman in the UK

Podman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Podman.

Daily rate trend for Podman in the UK

Podman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Podman over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Podman in the UK

Podman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Podman.

Hourly rate trend for Podman in the UK

Podman
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +68 27 £525 -17.65% 8
UK excluding London +55 17 £484 -28.26% 7
London +42 12 £575 +27.78% 4
South East +38 9 £501 -25.85% 2
Work from Home +45 5 - - 12
East of England - 4 £467 -
Scotland - 2 £458 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
Midlands - 1 £300 -
South West - 1 £500 - 1

Podman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) JBoss
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
3 5 (17.24%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) GitLab
1 14 (48.28%) JIRA
2 13 (44.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (34.48%) SonarQube
4 9 (31.03%) Cucumber
4 9 (31.03%) REST Assured
4 9 (31.03%) Selenium
5 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
5 4 (13.79%) Git
6 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.45%) Ant
7 1 (3.45%) Maven
7 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Law
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Police
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) ARM Templates
1 9 (31.03%) Java EE
1 9 (31.03%) REST
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.90%) pytest
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Clustering
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
1 4 (13.79%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Containerisation
1 19 (65.52%) DevOps
2 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (48.28%) Configuration Management
5 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
6 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (31.03%) Software Architecture
7 9 (31.03%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
8 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.69%) ITIL
8 6 (20.69%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Problem Management
9 5 (17.24%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
10 4 (13.79%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Go
4 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) DBS Check
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 25 (86.21%) Docker
2 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Lustre
3 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Terraform
2 19 (65.52%) Kubernetes
3 18 (62.07%) Ansible
4 9 (31.03%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (17.24%) Grafana
6 4 (13.79%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (13.79%) Karpenter
7 2 (6.90%) RSA Archer
8 1 (3.45%) Istio
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
1 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
1 5 (17.24%) VMware
2 4 (13.79%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) Netskope
4 2 (6.90%) Proofpoint
4 2 (6.90%) Symantec
5 1 (3.45%) Pega