Packer Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Hashicorp Packer
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Packer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.05% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £650 £465
% change year-on-year -19.23% +39.78% -11.43%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 23 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 24.21% 17.70% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 20
10th Percentile £203 £251 £362
25th Percentile £270 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £378 £476
Median % change year-on-year +43.05% -20.73% -9.29%
75th Percentile £556 £519 £528
90th Percentile £579 £539 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £558
% change year-on-year - -1.35% +1.36%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Packer job vacancy trend in Dorset

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 18 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
Blandford Forum - 1 £550 - 1
Packer
South West

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware