Packer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Hashicorp Packer
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Packer skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 367 359
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Packer 12 8 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.044% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.35% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 36
10th Percentile - £575 £438
25th Percentile £418 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £663
90th Percentile £600 £663 £681
UK median daily rate £569 £593 £613
% change year-on-year -4.01% -3.27% +2.08%

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 2,320 2,264 2,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 12.57% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,613 2,090
10th Percentile £243 £250 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.26% +1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 36 113
10th Percentile £17.78 £17.82 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £20.25
Median hourly rate £41.45 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% -15.01% +119.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £55.63 £73.71
90th Percentile £82.97 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% -31.11% +128.26%

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

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Packer

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 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK excluding London

Packer
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 1 September 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
South East +24 6 £435 -33.08%
North of England -8 3 £600 +9.09%
South West +28 2 £500 -23.08% 3
North West - 2 £613 -
North East +1 1 £425 -22.73%
East of England - 1 £500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GitHub
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
1 6 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 6 (50.00%) YAML
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 6 (50.00%) Observability
4 6 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) GitOps
6 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Lustre
2 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
3 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (50.00%) Grafana
4 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk