Hashicorp Packer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Packer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Packer over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 852 798
Rank change year-on-year +162 -54 +173
Permanent jobs citing Packer 21 43 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.043% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.44% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 31 97
10th Percentile - £37,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,875 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £94,063 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,625 £82,500 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -32.20% +1.72%

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 5,623 9,841 14,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 9.92% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 7,085 9,027
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 16 May 2025.

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 14 £80,000 +11.30% 43
London +87 10 £87,500 +16.67% 23
UK excluding London +185 9 £55,000 +10.00% 27
Work from Home +109 6 £87,500 +16.67% 47
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 1
South East +101 2 £57,500 - 10
South West +102 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £80,000 -
Midlands - 1 £80,000 - 3

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 8 (38.10%) nginx
1 8 (38.10%) Tomcat
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub
4 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (14.29%) GCP
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (9.52%) Pulumi
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) IaaS
8 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 11 (52.38%) Cucumber
2 11 (52.38%) SonarQube
3 9 (42.86%) Bitbucket
4 8 (38.10%) JUnit
4 8 (38.10%) Maven
4 8 (38.10%) Mockito
4 8 (38.10%) Postman
4 8 (38.10%) Selenium
4 8 (38.10%) TestNG
5 6 (28.57%) Artifactory
6 5 (23.81%) Git
6 5 (23.81%) JIRA
7 3 (14.29%) GitLab
8 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (4.76%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
2 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Java Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (52.38%) REST
3 9 (42.86%) OpenAPI
3 9 (42.86%) RESTful
3 9 (42.86%) Swagger
4 8 (38.10%) Gherkin
4 8 (38.10%) Guice
4 8 (38.10%) JAX-RS
4 8 (38.10%) Kafka
4 8 (38.10%) Mustache
4 8 (38.10%) Spring
4 8 (38.10%) Spring Boot
4 8 (38.10%) WireMock
5 4 (19.05%) Pandas
6 3 (14.29%) JSON
6 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (14.29%) scikit-learn
7 2 (9.52%) Anaconda
8 1 (4.76%) NumPy
8 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Life Science
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) VMS
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Auto-Scaling
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 11 (52.38%) Unit Testing
3 10 (47.62%) Code Quality
4 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) BDD
5 8 (38.10%) Dependency Injection
5 8 (38.10%) Innovative Thinking
5 8 (38.10%) Multithreading
5 8 (38.10%) MVC
5 8 (38.10%) OO
5 8 (38.10%) OOP
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Security Hardening
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
4 4 (19.05%) Groovy
4 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (14.29%) Perl
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) Kubernetes
1 20 (95.24%) Terraform
2 15 (71.43%) Ansible
3 8 (38.10%) Kustomize
4 3 (14.29%) Consul
5 2 (9.52%) Argo
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
6 1 (4.76%) Salt
6 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Tanium
3 1 (4.76%) VMware