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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 482 451
Rank change year-on-year -48 -31 +52
Contract jobs citing Packer 54 62 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.91% 1.23% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 110
10th Percentile £424 £506 £420
25th Percentile £500 £565 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £680 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +29.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £638
90th Percentile £711 £750 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.53

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 5,920 5,025 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.08% 14.70% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 3,214 4,314
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 172
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.16 £17.07
25th Percentile £20.16 £22.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.75 £72.05
90th Percentile £81.40 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.25 £25.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.52% -45.13% +53.50%

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 10 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 19 December 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 -24 51 £600 -17.24% 2
London -10 21 £623 -3.49%
UK excluding London -42 21 £500 -31.03% 2
Work from Home -9 19 £555 -11.20%
South West - 9 £450 -
North of England -62 8 £525 -27.59%
Yorkshire -48 5 £518 -28.62%
North West -27 3 £600 -20.00%
South East - 3 £435 - 2
East of England -21 1 £500 -

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 15 (27.78%) Confluence
2 13 (24.07%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (55.56%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (24.07%) GitHub
4 11 (20.37%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (20.37%) Entra ID
4 11 (20.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (18.52%) Azure
6 8 (14.81%) IaaS
7 7 (12.96%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (7.41%) Route 53
9 4 (7.41%) Serverless
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.93%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) DHCP
3 3 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.56%) Redis
4 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (42.59%) Git
2 18 (33.33%) GitLab
3 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 15 (27.78%) JIRA
4 6 (11.11%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Lead
5 7 (12.96%) Lead DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Scrum Master
8 4 (7.41%) Senior
8 4 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Kafka Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) Kafka
2 10 (18.52%) Keycloak
3 7 (12.96%) cloud-init
3 7 (12.96%) YAML
4 6 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.56%) Node.js
7 1 (1.85%) Loki
7 1 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) PKI
2 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) CMDB
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (74.07%) Linux
2 13 (24.07%) Windows
3 7 (12.96%) CentOS
3 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (12.96%) Unix
4 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) DevOps
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 24 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (42.59%) Agile
5 12 (22.22%) Observability
6 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
6 11 (20.37%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.96%) Scrum
8 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 6 (11.11%) GitOps
9 5 (9.26%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.26%) Security Hardening
10 4 (7.41%) Incident Response
10 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (7.41%) Kanban
10 4 (7.41%) Microservices
10 4 (7.41%) Task Automation
10 4 (7.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Bash
3 10 (18.52%) Go
3 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.41%) Bicep
6 3 (5.56%) Perl
6 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.85%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 37 (68.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.85%) CCA
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 24 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) Lustre
5 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (81.48%) Terraform
2 32 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (55.56%) Ansible
4 14 (25.93%) Consul
5 10 (18.52%) Grafana
5 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (12.96%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (7.41%) Nessus
8 3 (5.56%) Podman
8 3 (5.56%) Proxmox
9 2 (3.70%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.85%) Argo
10 1 (1.85%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.85%) vRealize
10 1 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Splunk
2 10 (18.52%) VMware
3 7 (12.96%) Okta
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.85%) CyberArk