Packer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Hashicorp Packer
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing Packer 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.52% 2.37% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £626
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.90% +4.25%
75th Percentile £613 - £675
90th Percentile £620 - £683
North West median daily rate £600 £750 £626
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.90% +4.25%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 198 169 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.94% 15.59% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 94 186
10th Percentile £313 £269 £288
25th Percentile £400 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.89%
75th Percentile £627 £598 £575
90th Percentile £663 £673 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 12
10th Percentile £19.66 - £17.83
25th Percentile £44.38 £29.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.00 £53.13
Median % change year-on-year +77.42% -41.65% -18.27%
75th Percentile £63.44 £32.50 £68.44
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.13
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -7.30%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Packer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Packer

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform