Packer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Hashicorp Packer
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Packer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.039% - 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% - 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.10%
England median daily rate £600 £663 £513
% change year-on-year -9.43% +29.27% -17.30%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 453 186 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.74% 12.64% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 119 144
10th Percentile £269 £184 £190
25th Percentile £423 £288 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £525
90th Percentile £672 £690 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £25.39 £12.18 £19.59
25th Percentile £25.98 £12.94 £25.49
Median hourly rate £50.80 £16.19 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year +213.79% -54.17% +99.35%
75th Percentile £77.31 £17.89 £45.16
90th Percentile £77.43 £18.13 £51.07
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year +94.65% -35.25% -19.39%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 February 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
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform