Hashicorp Packer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Packer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Packer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 531 600
Rank change year-on-year -2 +69 +3
Contract jobs citing Packer 57 172 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.11% 1.80% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 135 196
10th Percentile £456 £426 £485
25th Percentile £463 £547 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +5.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £934 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,151 9,566 14,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 16.15% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,675 6,897 10,301
10th Percentile £258 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £672
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 212 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.64 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.73 £24.56 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +156.81% -43.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.75 £48.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £43.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.71% +118.75% -9.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer.

Daily rate trend for Packer in the UK

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK

Packer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +33 50 £511 -18.89% 15
London +46 32 £511 -19.32% 7
UK excluding London +14 21 £550 -12.00% 10
Work from Home +64 15 £600 -4.00% 8
South East +20 9 £650 +3.17% 3
North of England 0 7 £463 -26.00% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £463 -
Scotland +31 3 £600 -7.69%
North West -17 2 - - 3
Midlands +22 1 £350 -45.10% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £350 -45.10% 1
South West +17 1 £675 +12.50%
North East - 1 £550 - 1

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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 18 (31.58%) nginx
2 14 (24.56%) Confluence
3 3 (5.26%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.51%) IIS
4 2 (3.51%) Traefik
5 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (70.18%) AWS
2 14 (24.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (21.05%) Azure
4 10 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (14.04%) GitHub
6 6 (10.53%) IaaS
6 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.77%) AWS KMS
7 5 (8.77%) Serverless
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.02%) GCP
8 4 (7.02%) Route 53
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) IPv4
3 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.51%) SSL
3 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.04%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.53%) MySQL
4 6 (10.53%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.26%) Big Data
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (42.11%) Git
2 21 (36.84%) Jenkins
3 19 (33.33%) GitLab
4 16 (28.07%) JIRA
5 6 (10.53%) Bitbucket
6 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.26%) Artifactory
7 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.26%) EasyMock
7 3 (5.26%) JUnit
7 3 (5.26%) Maven
7 3 (5.26%) Mockito
7 3 (5.26%) Postman
7 3 (5.26%) Selenium
7 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (5.26%) TestNG
8 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.51%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.75%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.51%) Banking
3 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.51%) Retail
4 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Platform Specialist
8 2 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.51%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) Kafka
2 4 (7.02%) REST
2 4 (7.02%) Spring
2 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
2 4 (7.02%) Swagger
3 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.26%) Gherkin
3 3 (5.26%) Guice
3 3 (5.26%) JAX-RS
3 3 (5.26%) Mustache
3 3 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 3 (5.26%) WireMock
4 2 (3.51%) cloud-init
4 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.75%) JSON
5 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.75%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.26%) Clustering
2 3 (5.26%) Smart Meter
3 2 (3.51%) PKI
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (71.93%) Linux
2 21 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (17.54%) VMS
4 9 (15.79%) Windows
5 8 (14.04%) Unix
6 7 (12.28%) CentOS
7 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
8 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) CI/CD
3 24 (42.11%) Agile
4 20 (35.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.79%) Configuration Management
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.53%) Build Automation
9 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.53%) Runbook
9 6 (10.53%) Scrum
9 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
10 5 (8.77%) Microservices
10 5 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.77%) Re-Platforming
11 4 (7.02%) Continuous Delivery
12 3 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) Bash
3 9 (15.79%) Go
3 9 (15.79%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.26%) C
6 3 (5.26%) C++
6 3 (5.26%) Rust
7 2 (3.51%) Ruby
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) Korn
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) SQL
8 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (59.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (56.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) NCSC
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) Docker
2 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
3 7 (12.28%) vSphere
4 6 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.75%) KVM
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (77.19%) Terraform
2 37 (64.91%) Kubernetes
3 36 (63.16%) Ansible
4 18 (31.58%) Consul
5 11 (19.30%) Puppet
6 8 (14.04%) vRealize
7 4 (7.02%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (7.02%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.02%) Rancher
8 3 (5.26%) Kibana
8 3 (5.26%) Kustomize
8 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.51%) Graphite
9 2 (3.51%) HAProxy
9 2 (3.51%) Istio
9 2 (3.51%) linkerd
9 2 (3.51%) logstash
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.51%) Opsgenie
9 2 (3.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) VMware
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.77%) Arqiva
3 5 (8.77%) Dynatrace
3 5 (8.77%) Veritas
4 4 (7.02%) Splunk
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.51%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) PagerDuty
6 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) Confluent
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.75%) Sybase