Packer Contracts

Hashicorp Packer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 552 536
Rank change year-on-year +91 -16 +71
Contract jobs citing Packer 58 48 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.26% 0.93% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 138
10th Percentile £485 £456 £427
25th Percentile £561 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £630
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +5.00%
75th Percentile £738 £634 £663
90th Percentile £750 £938 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% +4.17%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer.

Daily rate trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +67 45 £700 +29.63% 29
UK excluding London +58 26 £725 +26.09% 15
Work from Home +63 25 £630 -18.71% 17
North of England +44 23 £725 +56.76% 7
London +29 17 £645 +19.44% 14
Yorkshire +23 12 £725 +56.76% 2
North East +5 6 £650 +18.18% 2
North West +14 5 £750 - 4
South West +45 1 £500 -25.93% 1
South East +35 1 £478 -26.46% 3
Scotland +6 1 £685 +14.17%

Packer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (27.59%) nginx
2 12 (20.69%) Traefik
3 8 (13.79%) Confluence
4 2 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 49 (84.48%) AWS
2 33 (56.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (29.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (27.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (25.86%) AWS Fargate
7 14 (24.14%) Entra ID
8 7 (12.07%) Azure
8 7 (12.07%) GCP
8 7 (12.07%) GitHub
9 5 (8.62%) IaaS
10 4 (6.90%) AWS KMS
10 4 (6.90%) PaaS
10 4 (6.90%) Route 53
10 4 (6.90%) SaaS
11 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.17%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (5.17%) Google App Engine
11 3 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (5.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) DNS
1 16 (27.59%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.17%) IPsec
2 3 (5.17%) Kerberos
2 3 (5.17%) SSL
3 2 (3.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.21%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.07%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.45%) MySQL
5 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (72.41%) Jenkins
2 32 (55.17%) GitLab
3 13 (22.41%) Git
4 9 (15.52%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) Maven
6 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.17%) Vagrant
7 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Military
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (39.66%) Senior
2 23 (39.66%) Senior DevOps
3 17 (29.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Lead DevOps
5 6 (10.34%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.17%) GCP Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (1.72%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (41.38%) cloud-init
2 20 (34.48%) Kafka
3 15 (25.86%) Keycloak
4 7 (12.07%) Node.js
5 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.17%) OAuth
6 3 (5.17%) OAuth2
6 3 (5.17%) OpenID
6 3 (5.17%) REST
6 3 (5.17%) SAML
6 3 (5.17%) Spring
6 3 (5.17%) Web Services
6 3 (5.17%) XACML
7 1 (1.72%) RESTful
7 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) PKI
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Linux
2 34 (58.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (48.28%) CentOS
4 26 (44.83%) Unix
5 9 (15.52%) Windows
6 4 (6.90%) Rocky
7 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (91.38%) DevOps
2 41 (70.69%) CI/CD
3 37 (63.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (48.28%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (41.38%) Agile
6 20 (34.48%) Cloud Security
7 17 (29.31%) Observability
8 15 (25.86%) Secrets Management
9 14 (24.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 14 (24.14%) Identity Management
9 14 (24.14%) Static Application Security Testing
10 12 (20.69%) Mobile Device Management
11 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.52%) Microservices
12 6 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (10.34%) Design Patterns
12 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 6 (10.34%) Service Management
13 5 (8.62%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) Python
2 36 (62.07%) Bash
3 30 (51.72%) Go
4 12 (20.69%) Java
5 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.17%) PHP
7 3 (5.17%) R
7 3 (5.17%) SQL
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Security Cleared
2 30 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.17%) RHCA
5 3 (5.17%) RHCE
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) NCSC
2 5 (8.62%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.17%) RACF
4 2 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (100.00%) Terraform
2 36 (62.07%) Kubernetes
3 26 (44.83%) Ansible
4 19 (32.76%) Consul
4 19 (32.76%) Prometheus
5 18 (31.03%) Grafana
6 14 (24.14%) Istio
6 14 (24.14%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (24.14%) linkerd
6 14 (24.14%) Rancher
6 14 (24.14%) ZABBIX
7 12 (20.69%) HAProxy
8 8 (13.79%) Puppet
9 5 (8.62%) Progress Chef
10 3 (5.17%) Kustomize
10 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (3.45%) WSUS
12 1 (1.72%) Graylog
12 1 (1.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Splunk
2 14 (24.14%) Okta
3 12 (20.69%) Apple
3 12 (20.69%) ESET
4 5 (8.62%) Google
5 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.90%) VMware
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Citrix
6 2 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle
7 1 (1.72%) Tenable