Hybrid/Remote Packer Job Trends

Hashicorp Packer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Packer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 422 551
Rank change year-on-year +37 +129 +30
Permanent jobs citing Packer 14 6 21
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.075% 0.040% 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.28% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 15
10th Percentile £52,227 £78,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £54,468 £80,625 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £108,125 £96,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £100,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -5.08%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,529 2,163 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.43% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,270 2,931
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,563 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +5.57% -8.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Packer and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Packer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Packer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Packer

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Packer over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Packer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (21.43%) Apache Solr
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Drupal
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) GitHub
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (35.71%) Serverless
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (14.29%) BrowserStack
7 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 2 (14.29%) PaaS
7 2 (14.29%) SaaS
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
8 1 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Redis
2 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) Flink
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Vagrant
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) Gatling
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Lead
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (14.29%) React
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) CMDB
1 6 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 6 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (71.43%) Mentoring
4 9 (64.29%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (57.14%) DevOps
5 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (57.14%) Impact Assessments
6 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity
7 6 (42.86%) Change Management
7 6 (42.86%) Information Security
7 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (42.86%) Process Improvement
7 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 5 (35.71%) Agile
8 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
8 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (35.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (85.71%) Ansible
3 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) Consul
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) EMC
2 6 (42.86%) F5
2 6 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) TOWER Software