Packer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Hashicorp Packer
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 142 113 134
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 -33
Contract jobs citing Packer 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 1.41% 1.22%
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
England median daily rate £600 £713 £540
% change year-on-year -15.79% +31.94% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 403 284 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.18% 13.17% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 151 279
10th Percentile £300 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £659
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 44
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.73
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.18 £19.81
Median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -7.30%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the North West

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Packer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Manchester -11 3 £600 -20.00% 1
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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