Packer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hashicorp Packer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Packer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Packer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 399 484
Rank change year-on-year +64 +85 -64
Contract jobs citing Packer 15 69 137
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.100% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 1.67% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 52 105
10th Percentile £470 £428 £485
25th Percentile £508 £540 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £650 £675
90th Percentile - £700 £689
UK median daily rate £511 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -18.24% +4.17% +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,126 7,077
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.85% 16.48% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 3,053 5,273
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £515 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.04% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 75 45
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.28 £15.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.39
% change year-on-year -55.19% +156.81% -44.03%

Packer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Packer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Packer.

Packer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Packer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Packer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (46.67%) Confluence
1 7 (46.67%) nginx
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) Miro
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 2 (13.33%) Slack
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Datadog
7 1 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (13.33%) EasyMock
4 2 (13.33%) JUnit
4 2 (13.33%) Maven
4 2 (13.33%) Mockito
4 2 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (13.33%) Postman
4 2 (13.33%) Selenium
4 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) TestNG
5 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (6.67%) Hudson
5 1 (6.67%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (13.33%) Guice
2 2 (13.33%) JAX-RS
2 2 (13.33%) Mustache
2 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) Swagger
2 2 (13.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (13.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Line Management
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) MVC
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (13.33%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Ansible
3 8 (53.33%) Consul
3 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (26.67%) Puppet
5 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (13.33%) Kibana
6 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
6 2 (13.33%) logstash
6 2 (13.33%) Opsgenie
7 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (6.67%) Rundeck
7 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Google