Hashicorp Packer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Packer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Packer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 781 967
Rank change year-on-year -71 +186 -266
Permanent jobs citing Packer 44 189 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.44% 1.22% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 32 110 174
10th Percentile £37,875 £47,500 £38,975
25th Percentile £47,188 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,188 £82,875
90th Percentile £82,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +26.09%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Packer is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Packer.

Salary trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -12 43 £70,000 -5.08% 20
London +110 29 £75,000 -6.25% 11
Work from Home +50 21 £75,000 - 7
UK excluding London -62 13 £50,000 -33.33% 13
South West -16 8 £50,000 -23.08%
North of England +17 3 £67,500 -10.00% 4
East of England +8 2 - -
Yorkshire +71 1 £67,500 -5.26%
South East +23 1 - - 4
North West +6 1 - - 2
North East -8 1 £67,500 -20.59% 2

Packer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (29.55%) Confluence
2 4 (9.09%) nginx
3 2 (4.55%) IIS
4 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) AWS
2 24 (54.55%) Azure
3 16 (36.36%) GitHub
4 15 (34.09%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (34.09%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (34.09%) Serverless
5 14 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (27.27%) Amazon S3
7 10 (22.73%) GCP
7 10 (22.73%) Route 53
7 10 (22.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
9 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (11.36%) IaaS
9 5 (11.36%) PaaS
10 4 (9.09%) Datadog
10 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
10 4 (9.09%) Pulumi
11 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) HTTP
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) Internet
4 2 (4.55%) IPv4
4 2 (4.55%) IPv6
4 2 (4.55%) SMTP
4 2 (4.55%) SSH
4 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) 3G
5 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.55%) Redis
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (61.36%) Jenkins
2 17 (38.64%) JIRA
3 14 (31.82%) Bitbucket
4 13 (29.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (22.73%) Subversion
6 9 (20.45%) Artifactory
7 8 (18.18%) GitLab
7 8 (18.18%) Vagrant
8 6 (13.64%) Git
9 4 (9.09%) Cucumber
9 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
10 2 (4.55%) JUnit
11 1 (2.27%) Appium
11 1 (2.27%) GoogleTest
11 1 (2.27%) JMeter
11 1 (2.27%) Maven
11 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (2.27%) Selenium
11 1 (2.27%) Spock
11 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Retail
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) JIRA Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (18.18%) REST
2 7 (15.91%) YAML
3 5 (11.36%) .NET
3 5 (11.36%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (11.36%) SAML
4 4 (9.09%) React
5 3 (6.82%) Apollo GraphQL
5 3 (6.82%) Celery
5 3 (6.82%) Django
5 3 (6.82%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.82%) Jest
5 3 (6.82%) Next.js
5 3 (6.82%) Playwright
6 2 (4.55%) JSON
6 2 (4.55%) Loki
6 2 (4.55%) Node.js
6 2 (4.55%) SOAP
7 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.27%) CentOS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (86.36%) DevOps
2 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (45.45%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Configuration Management
5 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (25.00%) Migration
7 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (22.73%) Data Migration
8 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (20.45%) Roadmaps
10 7 (15.91%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
11 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (11.36%) Observability
12 5 (11.36%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) Java
3 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 8 (18.18%) C#
5 5 (11.36%) Groovy
5 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.09%) Go
6 4 (9.09%) Ruby
7 3 (6.82%) Bash
7 3 (6.82%) Perl
8 2 (4.55%) C
8 2 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) ISO 9001
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) Varnish
3 2 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (97.73%) Terraform
2 25 (56.82%) Kubernetes
3 21 (47.73%) Ansible
4 11 (25.00%) Puppet
5 9 (20.45%) Consul
6 7 (15.91%) Progress Chef
7 6 (13.64%) Salt
8 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
9 2 (4.55%) Grafana
9 2 (4.55%) Kibana
10 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
10 1 (2.27%) Nagios
10 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 7 (15.91%) Google
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.36%) Dynatrace
5 4 (9.09%) VMware
6 3 (6.82%) IBM
6 3 (6.82%) Splunk
7 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.55%) Arista
7 2 (4.55%) Black Duck
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco
7 2 (4.55%) F5
7 2 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.55%) Juniper
8 1 (2.27%) New Relic
8 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.27%) Veeam
8 1 (2.27%) Zerto