Packer Contract Job Trends

Hashicorp Packer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 472 531
Rank change year-on-year -121 +59 +3
Contract jobs citing Packer 34 47 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 1.02% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 40
10th Percentile £450 £475 £456
25th Percentile £475 £561 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £663 £518
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +27.90% -17.45%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £600
90th Percentile £681 £750 £904
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £713 £550
% change year-on-year -29.82% +29.55% -12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,477 4,603 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.57% 15.78% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,462 3,146 3,646
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.42% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 55 116
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.50 £20.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £28.75
% change year-on-year +117.05% -11.86% -35.93%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the UK

Packer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
England -115 31 £588 -14.47% 12
UK excluding London -111 14 £500 -29.82% 7
London -69 13 £650 +4.00% 4
Work from Home -39 12 £633 -2.69% 4
North of England -75 7 £500 -31.03% 2
South West -31 4 £450 -10.00% 4
North East -19 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Yorkshire -61 3 £500 -31.03% 1
South East -64 2 £615 +28.66% 1
North West -38 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Confluence
1 4 (11.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) GitHub
3 13 (38.24%) Azure
4 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.76%) IaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
9 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) PCoIP
3 2 (5.88%) DHCP
3 2 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) HTTP
4 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Redis
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) OpenGL
2 3 (8.82%) Qt
3 1 (2.94%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.94%) OpenID
3 1 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.82%) CUDA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Linux
2 16 (47.06%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) DevOps
2 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (41.18%) Agile
5 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
7 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 6 (17.65%) Observability
9 5 (14.71%) GitOps
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Digital Strategy
10 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 4 (11.76%) ITIL
10 4 (11.76%) Security Hardening
10 4 (11.76%) Service Management
10 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 3 (8.82%) High Availability
11 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Bash
1 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.71%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) Go
4 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (73.53%) SC Cleared
1 25 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.94%) CCNA
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) RHCA
4 1 (2.94%) RHCE
4 1 (2.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.94%) KVM
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (85.29%) Terraform
2 24 (70.59%) Ansible
3 22 (64.71%) Kubernetes
4 5 (14.71%) Consul
5 4 (11.76%) Grafana
5 4 (11.76%) Nessus
5 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.88%) SCCM
6 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.94%) Argo
7 1 (2.94%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.82%) NVIDIA
4 2 (5.88%) HP
4 2 (5.88%) Leostream
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Ariba
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Tanium
5 1 (2.94%) Tenable
5 1 (2.94%) Trend Micro