Packer Contracts in the North of England

Hashicorp Packer
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 178 184
Rank change year-on-year +35 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Packer 23 7 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.15% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.76% 1.30% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 29
10th Percentile £650 - £325
25th Percentile £669 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% -26.00% -
75th Percentile £750 £469 £650
90th Percentile - £518 £675
England median daily rate £700 £539 £632
% change year-on-year +29.93% -14.71% +5.28%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Packer in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Packer in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +16 12 £725 +56.76% 2
North East +5 6 £650 +18.18% 1
North West +20 5 £750 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (30.43%) nginx
1 7 (30.43%) Traefik
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) AWS
2 18 (78.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (43.48%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (39.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
5 9 (39.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) DNS
1 9 (39.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (86.96%) GitLab
1 20 (86.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Military
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (69.57%) Senior
1 16 (69.57%) Senior DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) cloud-init
2 10 (43.48%) Kafka
3 9 (39.13%) Keycloak
4 4 (17.39%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Linux
2 18 (78.26%) CentOS
2 18 (78.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 18 (78.26%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
1 20 (86.96%) DevOps
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (73.91%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (43.48%) Secrets Management
4 9 (39.13%) Cloud Security
4 9 (39.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 9 (39.13%) Identity Management
4 9 (39.13%) Observability
4 9 (39.13%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (30.43%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (26.09%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Service Management
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
9 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (8.70%) Strategic Thinking
10 1 (4.35%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Bash
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 18 (78.26%) Go
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NCSC
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (47.83%) Grafana
3 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (39.13%) Consul
4 9 (39.13%) Istio
4 9 (39.13%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (39.13%) linkerd
4 9 (39.13%) Rancher
4 9 (39.13%) ZABBIX
5 7 (30.43%) HAProxy
6 5 (21.74%) Ansible
7 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (4.35%) Graylog
7 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Okta
1 9 (39.13%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Apple
2 7 (30.43%) ESET
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle