Packer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Hashicorp Packer
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 124 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +40
Contract jobs citing Packer 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.086% 0.11% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 0.85% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £93 -
25th Percentile - £142 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £226 £646
Median % change year-on-year - -65.11% +12.39%
75th Percentile - £312 £850
90th Percentile - £362 £919
Central London median daily rate - £226 £646
% change year-on-year - -65.11% +12.39%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 253 236 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.84% 12.81% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 168 201
10th Percentile £288 £281 £350
25th Percentile £453 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -4.16%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £30.26 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.82% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.74 -
90th Percentile - £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +91.08% +1.76% -25.52%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Packer

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes