Packer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Hashicorp Packer
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 378 386
Rank change year-on-year +65 +8 +51
Contract jobs citing Packer 26 21 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.38% 0.89% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 50
10th Percentile £478 - £326
25th Percentile £650 £456 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £600 £650
90th Percentile - £650 £676
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,355 3,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,705 2,653
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 136
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -9.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Packer in the UK excluding London

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +39 23 £725 +56.76% 22
Yorkshire +15 12 £725 +56.76% 9
North East +3 6 £650 +18.18% 3
North West +17 5 £750 - 11
South West +43 1 £500 -25.93% 10
South East +38 1 £478 -26.46% 22
Scotland +11 1 £685 +14.17% 3
Packer
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (26.92%) nginx
1 7 (26.92%) Traefik
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 18 (69.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (42.31%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (38.46%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (34.62%) Entra ID
5 9 (34.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) IaaS
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) DNS
1 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (80.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (76.92%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Military
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (61.54%) Senior
2 16 (61.54%) Senior DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Digital Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) cloud-init
2 11 (42.31%) Kafka
3 10 (38.46%) Keycloak
4 4 (15.38%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) PKI
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Linux
2 19 (73.08%) CentOS
2 19 (73.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (69.23%) Unix
4 2 (7.69%) Windows
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 22 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (65.38%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (38.46%) Cloud Security
4 10 (38.46%) Observability
4 10 (38.46%) Secrets Management
5 9 (34.62%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (34.62%) Identity Management
5 9 (34.62%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (23.08%) Service Management
8 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Test Strategy
9 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Bash
2 21 (80.77%) Python
3 18 (69.23%) Go
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (73.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (34.62%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) NCSC
2 3 (11.54%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 12 (46.15%) Grafana
3 12 (46.15%) Prometheus
4 9 (34.62%) Consul
4 9 (34.62%) Istio
4 9 (34.62%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (34.62%) linkerd
4 9 (34.62%) Rancher
4 9 (34.62%) ZABBIX
5 8 (30.77%) Ansible
6 7 (26.92%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.69%) Puppet
8 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.85%) Graylog
8 1 (3.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Splunk
2 9 (34.62%) Okta
3 7 (26.92%) Apple
3 7 (26.92%) ESET
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) VMware