Packer Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 626 799
Rank change year-on-year -37 +173 -48
Permanent jobs citing Packer 20 14 42
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.025% 0.036% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.29% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 30
10th Percentile £47,525 - £37,375
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,875
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.30% -0.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £103,125 £77,500
90th Percentile - £127,500 £83,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% -6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,160 4,749 8,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.17% 12.11% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 3,091 6,570
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +13.36% -9.32%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -17 10 - - 5
South East -16 5 £82,500 +43.48% 1
North of England - 5 £75,000 - 2
South West -47 3 £53,750 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £82,500 - 1
North West - 2 £67,500 -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Drupal
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) GitHub
2 9 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (40.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Serverless
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
8 1 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (5.00%) IaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) IPv4
1 5 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.00%) BGP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Git
2 11 (55.00%) JIRA
3 10 (50.00%) GitLab
3 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (30.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket
6 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
6 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
7 3 (15.00%) Vagrant
8 1 (5.00%) Gatling
8 1 (5.00%) JMeter
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 4 (20.00%) Automotive
4 4 (20.00%) Electronics
4 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (20.00%) JSON
1 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) boto
3 1 (5.00%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (30.00%) CMDB
2 6 (30.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) Windows
3 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (55.00%) Agile
4 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (45.00%) DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (35.00%) Scrum
7 6 (30.00%) Business Continuity
7 6 (30.00%) Change Management
7 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (30.00%) Information Security
7 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (55.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) Bash
5 4 (20.00%) Groovy
6 2 (10.00%) Perl
6 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (25.00%) CCNA
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 5 (25.00%) OSCP
4 5 (25.00%) RHCE
4 5 (25.00%) RHCSA
5 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (45.00%) Docker
4 5 (25.00%) Squid
4 5 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 5 (25.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Terraform
2 18 (90.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (80.00%) Ansible
4 5 (25.00%) ZABBIX
5 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.00%) Consul
6 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (55.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) EMC
3 6 (30.00%) F5
3 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 5 (25.00%) Splunk
5 4 (20.00%) AppDynamics
5 4 (20.00%) IBM
6 2 (10.00%) Google
7 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (5.00%) TOWER Software