Packer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Hashicorp Packer
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 - 178
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Packer 8 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% - 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.95% - 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 11
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £600 - £606
90th Percentile £608 - £663
England median daily rate £600 £593 £548
% change year-on-year +1.27% +8.22% -8.75%

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 841 566 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.84% 14.34% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 333 516
10th Percentile £261 £275 £275
25th Percentile £378 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -4.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £586
90th Percentile £634 £640 £663
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 48
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.67 £18.28
25th Percentile £16.91 £24.18 £41.09
Median hourly rate £28.65 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.96% - +105.24%
75th Percentile £69.00 £48.75 £49.31
90th Percentile £81.43 £75.64 £75.46
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £48.70
% change year-on-year -7.69% -24.37% +94.80%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Packer
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 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the North of England

Packer
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 3 November 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 - 4 £513 - 1
North West - 3 £600 - 1
North East - 1 £425 -
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) Route 53
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Go
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk