Packer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Hashicorp Packer
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 35 37
Rank change year-on-year -37 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Packer 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.43% 0.66% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.29% 4.35% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £420 £385 -
25th Percentile £441 £391 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £403 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.22% -26.82% -
75th Percentile £531 £414 -
90th Percentile £535 £421 -
England median daily rate £550 £561 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% +6.90% -16.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 131 46 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 18.88% 15.08% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 42 5
10th Percentile £314 £205 £218
25th Percentile £368 £363 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +12.73% -41.07%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £525
90th Percentile £596 £575 £540
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 5
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £46.18
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +69.35% -43.64%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the North East

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the North East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Tyne and Wear -36 3 £500 +24.22%
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) cloud-init
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Release Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk