Hashicorp Packer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Packer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 689 633 850
Rank change year-on-year -56 +217 -78
Permanent jobs citing Packer 26 21 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.048% 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.56% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 31
10th Percentile £47,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £54,468 £50,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £94,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £115,625 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% +10.00% -32.20%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,626 5,241 9,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 11.98% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 3,247 7,085
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.17%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Packer job vacancy trend in the UK

Packer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Packer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Packer

Packer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 9 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 16 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
England -46 21 £67,500 -15.63% 13
Work from Home +29 14 £67,500 -22.86% 4
UK excluding London -52 11 £67,500 +22.73% 9
London -12 10 - - 4
South East -17 5 £82,500 +43.48% 2
North of England - 5 £75,000 - 3
South West -46 4 £60,500 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £82,500 - 1
North West - 2 £67,500 - 1

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Solr
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Drupal
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) GitHub
2 11 (42.31%) Serverless
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon S3
4 9 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (34.62%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (30.77%) Azure
6 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (26.92%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (11.54%) IaaS
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (7.69%) BrowserStack
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) PaaS
8 2 (7.69%) SaaS
9 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) IPv4
1 6 (23.08%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (7.69%) DSL
3 1 (3.85%) BGP
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Redis
2 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (11.54%) Flink
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Git
2 14 (53.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (46.15%) JIRA
4 11 (42.31%) GitLab
5 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket
5 6 (23.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
6 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (11.54%) Vagrant
8 2 (7.69%) Selenium
9 1 (3.85%) Gatling
9 1 (3.85%) JMeter
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Aerospace
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Automotive
3 4 (15.38%) Electronics
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Lead
3 8 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Java Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Developer
8 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Senior
8 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
1 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (15.38%) JSON
2 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (15.38%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) YAML
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) boto
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.85%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Public Cloud
2 6 (23.08%) CMDB
2 6 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (23.08%) Private Cloud
3 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 14 (53.85%) Windows
3 13 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Unix
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (65.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (57.69%) Agile
4 14 (53.85%) DevOps
5 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
7 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
7 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (30.77%) DevSecOps
8 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (30.77%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
8 8 (30.77%) Scrum
9 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
10 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
10 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 17 (65.38%) Java
3 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (26.92%) Bash
5 4 (15.38%) Groovy
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) AWS Certification
3 7 (26.92%) Azure Certification
3 7 (26.92%) Degree
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (23.08%) CCNA
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (23.08%) ISTQB
4 6 (23.08%) OSCP
4 6 (23.08%) RHCE
4 6 (23.08%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) Docker
2 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (23.08%) Squid
3 6 (23.08%) VMware NSX
3 6 (23.08%) vSphere
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 22 (84.62%) Ansible
3 19 (73.08%) Kubernetes
4 6 (23.08%) ZABBIX
5 3 (11.54%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.85%) Consul
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (46.15%) VMware
3 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco
4 6 (23.08%) EMC
4 6 (23.08%) F5
4 6 (23.08%) Oracle
4 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (23.08%) Splunk
5 4 (15.38%) AppDynamics
5 4 (15.38%) IBM
6 2 (7.69%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) TOWER Software