Packer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Hashicorp Packer
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 77 104
Rank change year-on-year -51 +27 +42
Contract jobs citing Packer 5 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 1.01% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 4.90% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £487 £694 -
25th Percentile £500 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £725 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.62% +52.63% -17.39%
75th Percentile £538 £747 -
90th Percentile - £750 £490
England median daily rate £600 £700 £542
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.15% -9.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 454 245 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.85% 20.59% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 155 186
10th Percentile £283 £246 £288
25th Percentile £406 £381 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +2.30% -11.14%
75th Percentile £538 £579 £588
90th Percentile £588 £671 £678
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £20.67 - -
25th Percentile £23.94 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £56.94 - £42.88
90th Percentile £71.53 - £54.35
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.23% -32.87% +37.85%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Packer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Yorkshire -24 3 £518 -28.62%
South Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Route 53
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk