Packer Job Trends in the South West

Hashicorp Packer
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Packer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 159 270
Rank change year-on-year -44 +111 -29
Permanent jobs citing Packer 2 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.026% 0.037% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.35% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £37,000
25th Percentile - - £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £56,875
90th Percentile - - £60,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £83,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.43% +19.64% -3.45%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 372 284 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.92% 10.59% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 262 205 743
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £31,900
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £68,363 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the South West

Packer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Packer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Packer

Packer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Bristol - 1 - -
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
Packer
England

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Vagrant
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) TOWER Software