Packer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Hashicorp Packer
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 126 141
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +39
Contract jobs citing Packer 2 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.11% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 2.41% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £93 £476 £393
25th Percentile £142 £552 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £226 £593 £450
Median % change year-on-year -61.94% +31.67% -28.68%
75th Percentile £312 £750 £588
90th Percentile £362 £911 £653
London median daily rate £600 £528 £575
% change year-on-year +13.74% -8.26% -8.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Packer 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 271 374 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.45% 16.02% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 243 346
10th Percentile £284 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £748 £752 £777
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £19.52 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £21.50 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £29.06 - £45.31
90th Percentile £47.91 - £49.63
London median hourly rate £38.50 £27.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +42.59% -55.00% +140.00%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Packer job vacancy trend in Central London

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in Central London

Packer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
City of London -3 2 £226 -61.94%
Packer
London

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) yum