Packer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Hashicorp Packer
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East 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 167 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Contract jobs citing Packer 6 0 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.16% - 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% - 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 18
10th Percentile - - £512
25th Percentile £418 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £453 - £671
90th Percentile - - £745
England median daily rate £600 £593 £548
% change year-on-year +1.27% +8.22% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £76.53

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 587 605 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.46% 14.63% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 451 493
10th Percentile £255 £263 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £561 £613 £625
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 28
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £22.80
25th Percentile £18.97 £26.13 £29.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -29.75% +42.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.37 £69.45
90th Percentile £86.32 £44.00 £76.53
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 South East

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Hampshire - 6 £435 -
Packer
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 6 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk