Hashicorp Packer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Packer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Packer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 773 974
Rank change year-on-year -99 +201 -275
Permanent jobs citing Packer 42 179 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% 1.25% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 29 95 156
10th Percentile £37,250 £47,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,188
90th Percentile £85,250 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% -3.45% +20.83%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Packer is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Packer.

Salary trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -46 41 £68,750 -1.79% 18
London +126 28 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Work from Home +25 19 £75,000 - 10
UK excluding London -92 12 £50,000 -28.57% 14
South West -36 8 £50,000 -20.00% 1
North of England +11 3 £67,500 -10.00% 6
Yorkshire +53 1 £67,500 - 2
North West +1 1 - - 4
South East -9 1 - - 3
North East -12 1 £67,500 -20.59%
East of England -13 1 - -

Packer
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 11 (26.19%) Confluence
2 4 (9.52%) nginx
3 2 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 31 (73.81%) AWS
2 26 (61.90%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (33.33%) GitHub
4 12 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (28.57%) Serverless
5 11 (26.19%) GCP
6 10 (23.81%) Amazon S3
7 8 (19.05%) Route 53
7 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (11.90%) Datadog
9 5 (11.90%) IaaS
9 5 (11.90%) PaaS
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
10 4 (9.52%) Pulumi
11 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (11.90%) HTTP
3 3 (7.14%) IPv4
3 3 (7.14%) IPv6
3 3 (7.14%) VPN
4 2 (4.76%) Internet
4 2 (4.76%) SMTP
4 2 (4.76%) SSH
4 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.95%) JIRA
3 12 (28.57%) Bitbucket
4 11 (26.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (19.05%) Artifactory
5 8 (19.05%) GitLab
5 8 (19.05%) Subversion
5 8 (19.05%) Vagrant
6 6 (14.29%) Git
7 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
8 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.76%) Maven
9 1 (2.38%) Gradle
9 1 (2.38%) JUnit
9 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.38%) Selenium
9 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) JIRA Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (16.67%) YAML
3 6 (14.29%) REST
4 5 (11.90%) .NET
5 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.52%) React
6 3 (7.14%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (7.14%) Celery
6 3 (7.14%) Django
6 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.14%) Jest
6 3 (7.14%) Next.js
6 3 (7.14%) Playwright
6 3 (7.14%) SAML
7 2 (4.76%) Loki
7 2 (4.76%) Node.js
7 2 (4.76%) SOAP
8 1 (2.38%) Kafka
8 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
1 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.38%) CentOS
3 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (92.86%) DevOps
2 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 24 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (45.24%) Agile
5 14 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (21.43%) Migration
7 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 8 (19.05%) Data Migration
8 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.90%) Auto-Scaling
11 5 (11.90%) Innovative Thinking
11 5 (11.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) Java
3 13 (30.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.05%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) Ruby
5 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.52%) Groovy
7 3 (7.14%) Bash
7 3 (7.14%) Go
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 2 (4.76%) SQL
9 1 (2.38%) C
9 1 (2.38%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Varnish
3 2 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (100.00%) Terraform
2 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (47.62%) Ansible
4 11 (26.19%) Puppet
5 8 (19.05%) Consul
6 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
7 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
8 4 (9.52%) Salt
9 3 (7.14%) Kibana
10 2 (4.76%) Grafana
11 1 (2.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (2.38%) Nagios
11 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 7 (16.67%) Google
3 6 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.52%) Splunk
5 4 (9.52%) VMware
6 3 (7.14%) Black Duck
7 2 (4.76%) Arista
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco
7 2 (4.76%) F5
7 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.76%) IBM
7 2 (4.76%) Juniper
8 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.38%) New Relic
8 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.38%) Veeam
8 1 (2.38%) Zerto