Packer Contracts in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Packer over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 493 534
Rank change year-on-year +43 +41 -9
Contract jobs citing Packer 26 44 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 0.98% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 80
10th Percentile £456 £456 £399
25th Percentile £509 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £511 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -18.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £605 £648 £650
90th Percentile £654 £938 £675
UK median daily rate £569 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +8.33% -16.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,805 4,478 7,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.83% 12.18% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,606 3,293 5,269
10th Percentile £313 £267 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -8.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £684
90th Percentile £713 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £517 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.34% -6.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 94 182
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.52
25th Percentile £21.39 £18.34 £25.71
Median hourly rate £29.00 £27.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -50.45% +155.81%
75th Percentile £63.40 £50.19 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.18 £71.25 £83.68
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% -47.83% +162.68%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Packer in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer in England.

Daily rate trend for Packer in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London +38 19 £575 +12.52% 40
North of England +8 3 £553 +19.46% 82
South East +50 1 £478 -26.46% 96
Yorkshire +16 1 £725 +56.76% 30
North West +9 1 - - 43
North East 0 1 £380 -30.91% 9
South West - 1 £500 - 44
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UK

Packer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (38.46%) nginx
2 9 (34.62%) Confluence
3 2 (7.69%) Traefik
4 1 (3.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) Route 53
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (15.38%) IaaS
5 4 (15.38%) Serverless
5 4 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) PaaS
6 3 (11.54%) SaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Akamai
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) SSH
3 2 (7.69%) IPsec
3 2 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) HTTP
4 1 (3.85%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Git
2 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
3 10 (38.46%) JIRA
4 7 (26.92%) GitLab
5 3 (11.54%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Military
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
1 3 (11.54%) Keycloak
1 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) cloud-init
2 2 (7.69%) OAuth
2 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 2 (7.69%) OpenID
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) SAML
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
2 2 (7.69%) XACML
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) CentOS
4 3 (11.54%) Rocky
4 3 (11.54%) Unix
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 4 (15.38%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Observability
6 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Secrets Management
6 4 (15.38%) Security Hardening
6 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
7 3 (11.54%) Server Management
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) Go
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 2 (7.69%) NCSC
1 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) RACF
4 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 19 (73.08%) Kubernetes
3 15 (57.69%) Ansible
4 9 (34.62%) Consul
5 5 (19.23%) Grafana
5 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (15.38%) Puppet
7 3 (11.54%) Kustomize
8 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
8 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
8 2 (7.69%) Istio
8 2 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (7.69%) Kibana
8 2 (7.69%) linkerd
8 2 (7.69%) Rancher
8 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (7.69%) ZABBIX
9 1 (3.85%) Graylog
9 1 (3.85%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) Apple
2 2 (7.69%) ESET
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Okta
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Black Duck
3 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) Tenable