Packer Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Hashicorp Packer
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Packer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.36% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 33 25 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.91% 14.45% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 4
10th Percentile £221 £395 £416
25th Percentile £481 £513 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -3.36% +22.68%
75th Percentile £678 £615 £650
90th Percentile £712 £657 -
North West median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £23.08 - -
25th Percentile £25.82 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £32.59 £63.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.59% +130.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £40.32 - £28.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £63.40 £22.61
% change year-on-year -13.25% +180.41% -23.74%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Packer job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
Preston - 1 £575 -
Packer
North West

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform