Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Hashicorp Packer
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
3 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 742 518 272
Rank change year-on-year -224 -246 +33
Permanent jobs citing Packer 136 100 35
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.85% 1.43% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 95 70 21
10th Percentile £58,750 £35,000 £53,715
25th Percentile £66,875 £38,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -8.62% +3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,250 £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +7.41%

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16,061 7,006 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.26% 18.64% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,163 5,248 1,371
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% +4.00% +7.76%

Packer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Packer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Packer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Packer.

Packer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Packer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Packer over the 6 months to 3 July 2022.

Packer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 3 July 2022, Packer job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Packer.

1 133 (97.79%) Terraform
2 110 (80.88%) DevOps
3 108 (79.41%) Kubernetes
4 102 (75.00%) AWS
5 96 (70.59%) Ansible
6 88 (64.71%) Python
7 87 (63.97%) Linux
8 83 (61.03%) Docker
8 83 (61.03%) CI/CD
9 82 (60.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (50.74%) Jenkins
11 68 (50.00%) Ruby
12 54 (39.71%) Prometheus
13 53 (38.97%) Java
13 53 (38.97%) GitHub
14 52 (38.24%) Bash
15 50 (36.76%) Elasticsearch
15 50 (36.76%) Windows
16 49 (36.03%) Cloud Native
17 48 (35.29%) Groovy
18 47 (34.56%) Go
18 47 (34.56%) Test Automation
19 43 (31.62%) SDLC
20 39 (28.68%) The Twelve-Factor App
21 38 (27.94%) Git (software)
21 38 (27.94%) Finance
22 37 (27.21%) Continuous Integration
22 37 (27.21%) Grafana
23 35 (25.74%) Amazon EC2
24 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

Packer
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.35%) Confluence
1 10 (7.35%) nginx
2 6 (4.41%) IIS
2 6 (4.41%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.68%) Apache
4 3 (2.21%) Traefik
5 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 102 (75.00%) AWS
2 53 (38.97%) GitHub
3 35 (25.74%) Amazon EC2
4 34 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (24.26%) Azure
6 29 (21.32%) Amazon S3
7 28 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (19.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
9 24 (17.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 23 (16.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 23 (16.91%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (15.44%) GCP
13 15 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (8.09%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (5.88%) SaaS
16 7 (5.15%) Datadog
17 6 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
17 6 (4.41%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.06%) DNS
2 23 (16.91%) DSL
2 23 (16.91%) HTTP
3 7 (5.15%) NetScaler
4 6 (4.41%) VLAN
5 5 (3.68%) DHCP
5 5 (3.68%) VPN
6 4 (2.94%) Internet
7 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.47%) Calico
9 1 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.74%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.74%) SMTP
9 1 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (36.76%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (21.32%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (16.91%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.68%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.21%) MySQL
8 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.74%) Redis
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (50.74%) Jenkins
2 38 (27.94%) Git (software)
3 31 (22.79%) Spinnaker
4 29 (21.32%) GitLab
5 23 (16.91%) Travis CI
6 11 (8.09%) JIRA
6 11 (8.09%) TeamCity
7 7 (5.15%) Artifactory
7 7 (5.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (4.41%) Terragrunt
9 5 (3.68%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.68%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.68%) Subversion
9 5 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.94%) Vagrant
11 3 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.21%) Hudson
12 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (27.94%) Finance
2 30 (22.06%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.50%) Advertising
4 12 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 11 (8.09%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.35%) Marketing
7 7 (5.15%) Electronics
7 7 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.68%) Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (68.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (30.15%) Senior DevOps
2 41 (30.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 35 (25.74%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (25.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (24.26%) AWS DevOps
4 33 (24.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 32 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (19.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (13.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Architect
9 8 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (5.15%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) CloudOps Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.79%) Node.js
2 26 (19.12%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (18.38%) .NET
4 11 (8.09%) Ruby on Rails
5 9 (6.62%) REST
6 6 (4.41%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.41%) Kafka
7 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.68%) gRPC
7 5 (3.68%) Web Services
8 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.21%) Loki
9 3 (2.21%) React
10 2 (1.47%) JSON
10 2 (1.47%) Sensu
10 2 (1.47%) Velocity
11 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.74%) Middleware
11 1 (0.74%) YAML
11 1 (0.74%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.03%) Cloud Native
2 29 (21.32%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.15%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.41%) Blog
5 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.68%) CMDB
6 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.68%) Semantic Web
7 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.21%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.47%) Clustering
9 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.47%) IoT
10 1 (0.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 87 (63.97%) Linux
2 50 (36.76%) Windows
3 29 (21.32%) Windows Server
4 22 (16.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (9.56%) CentOS
6 10 (7.35%) Unix
7 6 (4.41%) Android
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.47%) SUSE
9 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (80.88%) DevOps
2 83 (61.03%) CI/CD
3 82 (60.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (34.56%) Test Automation
5 43 (31.62%) SDLC
6 39 (28.68%) The Twelve-Factor App
7 37 (27.21%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (24.26%) Configuration Management
10 32 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (22.06%) Agile
12 27 (19.85%) Continuous Deployment
12 27 (19.85%) Scrum
13 26 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (16.91%) Blue-Green Deployment
14 23 (16.91%) Creative Thinking
14 23 (16.91%) Data Security
14 23 (16.91%) Regression Testing
15 19 (13.97%) Open Source
15 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (64.71%) Python
2 68 (50.00%) Ruby
3 53 (38.97%) Java
4 52 (38.24%) Bash
5 48 (35.29%) Groovy
6 47 (34.56%) Go
7 23 (16.91%) Scala
8 21 (15.44%) PowerShell
9 17 (12.50%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.62%) Perl
11 7 (5.15%) Rust
12 6 (4.41%) Shell Script
13 5 (3.68%) SPARQL
14 3 (2.21%) C
14 3 (2.21%) C++
14 3 (2.21%) PHP
14 3 (2.21%) SQL
15 2 (1.47%) C#
16 1 (0.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) MCSE
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.68%) RHCE
4 3 (2.21%) CCNA
4 3 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.47%) QA
1 2 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (61.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Ceph
2 2 (1.47%) flannel
2 2 (1.47%) Gluster
2 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.47%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.74%) NFS
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (97.79%) Terraform
2 108 (79.41%) Kubernetes
3 96 (70.59%) Ansible
4 54 (39.71%) Prometheus
5 37 (27.21%) Grafana
6 32 (23.53%) Puppet
7 24 (17.65%) Graphite
8 23 (16.91%) StatsD
9 13 (9.56%) Opscode Chef
10 11 (8.09%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (5.88%) HAProxy
12 6 (4.41%) Kibana
12 6 (4.41%) Nagios
13 5 (3.68%) Consul
13 5 (3.68%) Istio
14 4 (2.94%) Rancher
15 3 (2.21%) linkerd
15 3 (2.21%) Podman
16 1 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
16 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) PagerDuty
2 14 (10.29%) Splunk
3 13 (9.56%) VMware
4 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.35%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.88%) Google
6 7 (5.15%) SAP
7 6 (4.41%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.68%) Okta
8 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.94%) New Relic
10 3 (2.21%) IBM
11 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.47%) EMC
11 2 (1.47%) F5
11 2 (1.47%) NetApp
12 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.74%) Dell
12 1 (0.74%) Oracle
12 1 (0.74%) Solace