Packer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Hashicorp Packer
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Packer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Packer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 400 429
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing Packer 21 56 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.91% 1.59% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 47 60
10th Percentile - £326 £462
25th Percentile £456 £513 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £674
UK median daily rate £518 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -17.45% +4.58% +17.02%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Packer is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
South East +14 9 £650 +3.17% 6
North of England +5 7 £463 -26.00% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £463 - 1
Scotland +36 3 £600 -7.69% 1
North West -5 2 - - 3
Midlands +24 1 £350 -45.10% 1
West Midlands +19 1 £350 -45.10% 1
South West +17 1 £675 +12.50%
North East - 1 £550 -
Packer
UK

Packer
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 2 (9.52%) nginx
1 2 (9.52%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (28.57%) IaaS
2 6 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (19.05%) AWS KMS
3 4 (19.05%) Route 53
4 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (23.81%) MySQL
3 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
3 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) GitLab
2 9 (42.86%) Git
3 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Support
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.76%) jQuery
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Swagger
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Smart Meter
3 2 (9.52%) PKI
4 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Linux
2 18 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (42.86%) VMS
4 7 (33.33%) Unix
5 6 (28.57%) CentOS
6 3 (14.29%) Windows
7 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
8 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 6 (28.57%) Runbook
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
7 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
8 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.52%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) vSphere
2 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Ansible
2 15 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 10 (47.62%) Terraform
4 8 (38.10%) vRealize
5 7 (33.33%) Puppet
6 4 (19.05%) Rancher
7 3 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (9.52%) Consul
8 2 (9.52%) Graphite
8 2 (9.52%) HAProxy
8 2 (9.52%) Istio
8 2 (9.52%) linkerd
8 2 (9.52%) Podman
8 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
8 2 (9.52%) ZABBIX
9 1 (4.76%) Anchore
9 1 (4.76%) Kibana
9 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) VMware
2 7 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (23.81%) Arqiva
3 5 (23.81%) Veritas
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) PagerDuty
5 2 (9.52%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix
6 1 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds