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 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 662 907 877
Rank change year-on-year +245 -30 -210
Permanent jobs citing Packer 71 183 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 50 144 145
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,753 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,938 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £112,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +33.33%

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 8,232 19,722 21,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 15.67% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,489 11,664 13,956
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% +2.69% +6.28%

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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 +225 66 £65,000 -16.13% 23
UK excluding London +192 36 £62,500 -16.67% 16
London +232 27 £66,500 -17.65% 13
Work from Home +193 26 £68,750 -11.29% 22
South West +58 17 £63,750 -1.92% 4
South East +156 11 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East of England +128 9 £82,500 - 1
North of England +120 6 £54,500 -22.14% 3
North West +98 2 £54,000 -3.57% 2
Yorkshire +93 2 £55,000 -6.38%
North East +42 2 £61,250 -12.50% 1

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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (77.46%) AWS
2 42 (59.15%) Azure
3 40 (56.34%) Serverless
4 22 (30.99%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (28.17%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (26.76%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (21.13%) Amazon S3
8 12 (16.90%) Datadog
8 12 (16.90%) GitHub
9 11 (15.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (15.49%) Entra ID
10 9 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (11.27%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (9.86%) Azure AKS
12 7 (9.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
13 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (5.63%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.72%) DNS
2 5 (7.04%) NetScaler
3 3 (4.23%) IPv6
4 2 (2.82%) LAN
4 2 (2.82%) WAN
5 1 (1.41%) 3G
5 1 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.41%) Firewall
5 1 (1.41%) HTTP
5 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (9.86%) DynamoDB
2 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.23%) MySQL
3 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 35 (49.30%) Jenkins
2 30 (42.25%) Artifactory
2 30 (42.25%) GitLab
3 21 (29.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 19 (26.76%) Git
5 12 (16.90%) JIRA
6 10 (14.08%) SonarQube
7 9 (12.68%) Cucumber
8 5 (7.04%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.82%) Subversion
9 2 (2.82%) Vagrant
10 1 (1.41%) Appium
10 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.41%) Axure RP
10 1 (1.41%) GoogleTest
10 1 (1.41%) JMeter
10 1 (1.41%) JUnit
10 1 (1.41%) Spock
General
1 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.82%) Automotive
5 2 (2.82%) Billing
5 2 (2.82%) Military
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Marketing
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (61.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (25.35%) Senior
3 15 (21.13%) Senior DevOps
3 15 (21.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (12.68%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Developer
9 4 (5.63%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (4.23%) AWS Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Azure Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.21%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (25.35%) JSON
3 17 (23.94%) YAML
4 10 (14.08%) REST
5 9 (12.68%) .NET
5 9 (12.68%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (9.86%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.82%) LDAP
7 2 (2.82%) SAML
8 1 (1.41%) HTML
8 1 (1.41%) HTML5
8 1 (1.41%) pytest
8 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.68%) Private Cloud
3 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.27%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (9.86%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (9.86%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.82%) CMDB
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.82%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.41%) PKI
8 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (43.66%) Linux
2 11 (15.49%) Windows
3 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.04%) Unix
5 3 (4.23%) CentOS
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (87.32%) DevOps
2 49 (69.01%) Agile
3 37 (52.11%) CI/CD
4 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (30.99%) Containerisation
5 22 (30.99%) Microservices
6 20 (28.17%) Kanban
7 19 (26.76%) Configuration Management
8 16 (22.54%) ITIL
8 16 (22.54%) Scrum
8 16 (22.54%) Test Automation
9 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.08%) Analytics
10 10 (14.08%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (14.08%) Security Hardening
11 9 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (11.27%) Issue Tracking
12 8 (11.27%) SDLC
12 8 (11.27%) Static Code Analysis
12 8 (11.27%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 42 (59.15%) Python
2 37 (52.11%) PowerShell
3 24 (33.80%) Java
4 18 (25.35%) Bash
5 17 (23.94%) SQL
6 14 (19.72%) Perl
7 11 (15.49%) Shell Script
8 8 (11.27%) Groovy
9 7 (9.86%) Bicep
9 7 (9.86%) C
9 7 (9.86%) C++
10 6 (8.45%) Ruby
11 2 (2.82%) C#
11 2 (2.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) Azure Certification
4 10 (14.08%) AWS Certification
5 9 (12.68%) Degree
5 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (11.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 7 (9.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (5.63%) CCNA
8 4 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.76%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) RMADS
System Software
1 47 (66.20%) Docker
2 16 (22.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.82%) vSphere
6 1 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (97.18%) Terraform
2 50 (70.42%) Ansible
2 50 (70.42%) Kubernetes
3 21 (29.58%) Grafana
4 16 (22.54%) Prometheus
5 15 (21.13%) Puppet
6 13 (18.31%) Progress Chef
7 7 (9.86%) Argo
8 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (7.04%) Kibana
9 5 (7.04%) Nagios
9 5 (7.04%) SCCM
10 3 (4.23%) Consul
11 2 (2.82%) Graphite
11 2 (2.82%) Salt
12 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.41%) Istio
12 1 (1.41%) Rancher
12 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.72%) VMware
3 12 (16.90%) Splunk
4 10 (14.08%) Atlassian
5 9 (12.68%) AppDynamics
6 8 (11.27%) IBM
7 6 (8.45%) Citrix
8 5 (7.04%) New Relic
8 5 (7.04%) Wyse
9 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.41%) Black Duck
10 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
10 1 (1.41%) Cisco
10 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.41%) Google
10 1 (1.41%) Juniper
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle