Packer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hashicorp Packer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 332 395
Rank change year-on-year +56 +63 +90
Contract jobs citing Packer 25 12 76
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.079% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.63% 0.73% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 57
10th Percentile £475 £463 £428
25th Percentile £519 £563 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £775 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £731 £938 £650
90th Percentile £750 £1,030 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,642 4,265
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.50% 10.76% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,216 3,150
10th Percentile £388 £353 £400
25th Percentile £440 £449 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -5.91% -0.80%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 78
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £25.50
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £52.81
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +76.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £76.00
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.48 £28.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% -50.00% +158.08%

Packer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Packer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Packer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Packer.

Packer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Packer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Packer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Packer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (28.00%) nginx
2 5 (20.00%) Traefik
3 4 (16.00%) Confluence
4 2 (8.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) AWS
2 16 (64.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (44.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (36.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (32.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (28.00%) AWS Fargate
6 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
7 4 (16.00%) GitHub
7 4 (16.00%) IaaS
7 4 (16.00%) PaaS
7 4 (16.00%) Route 53
7 4 (16.00%) SaaS
8 3 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (12.00%) Serverless
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 1 (4.00%) Azure
10 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) DNS
1 9 (36.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.00%) IPsec
2 3 (12.00%) Kerberos
2 3 (12.00%) SSL
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (60.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
4 3 (12.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Senior
2 11 (44.00%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) cloud-init
2 8 (32.00%) Kafka
2 8 (32.00%) Keycloak
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (12.00%) OpenID
4 3 (12.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) SAML
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) XACML
5 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 13 (52.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (48.00%) CentOS
4 11 (44.00%) Unix
5 4 (16.00%) Windows
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) DevOps
2 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
5 9 (36.00%) Observability
6 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (28.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Identity Management
7 7 (28.00%) Secrets Management
7 7 (28.00%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 4 (16.00%) Microservices
9 4 (16.00%) Project Management
10 3 (12.00%) BPEL
10 3 (12.00%) SOA
10 3 (12.00%) TDD
10 3 (12.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) Bash
3 12 (48.00%) Go
4 7 (28.00%) Java
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (12.00%) SQL
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) RHCA
5 1 (4.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) NCSC
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) RACF
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (40.00%) Ansible
3 10 (40.00%) Consul
4 9 (36.00%) Grafana
4 9 (36.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (28.00%) Istio
5 7 (28.00%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (28.00%) linkerd
5 7 (28.00%) Rancher
5 7 (28.00%) ZABBIX
6 5 (20.00%) HAProxy
7 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (8.00%) WSUS
9 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 7 (28.00%) Okta
3 5 (20.00%) Apple
3 5 (20.00%) ESET
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Citrix
4 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Black Duck
5 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.00%) Tenable