Packer Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 559 567
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +46
Contract jobs citing Packer 53 123 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 1.39% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 93 191
10th Percentile £456 £390 £485
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £911 £675 £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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in the UK

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Top 10 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 1 June 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 +30 45 £511 -18.32% 15
London +62 29 £511 -18.32% 10
UK excluding London +12 19 £550 -12.00% 10
Work from Home +72 13 £508 -18.72% 7
South East +16 9 £650 +4.00% 2
North of England +8 7 £463 -26.00% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £463 - 1
Scotland +31 3 £600 -7.69% 2
North West +1 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £550 -

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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 17 (32.08%) nginx
2 16 (30.19%) Confluence
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
3 2 (3.77%) Traefik
4 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (75.47%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
4 8 (15.09%) AWS KMS
4 8 (15.09%) Azure
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (13.21%) GitHub
5 7 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (11.32%) IaaS
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (7.55%) GCP
8 4 (7.55%) Route 53
9 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.77%) Miro
9 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Kerberos
1 6 (11.32%) SSL
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
3 3 (5.66%) IPv4
4 2 (3.77%) Firewall
4 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (13.21%) MongoDB
4 6 (11.32%) MySQL
4 6 (11.32%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (49.06%) Git
2 23 (43.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (35.85%) GitLab
4 17 (32.08%) JIRA
5 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.77%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.77%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.89%) EasyMock
8 1 (1.89%) Gradle
8 1 (1.89%) Hudson
8 1 (1.89%) JUnit
8 1 (1.89%) Maven
8 1 (1.89%) Mockito
8 1 (1.89%) Selenium
8 1 (1.89%) TestNG
General
1 9 (16.98%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Architect
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
5 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Platform Specialist
6 2 (3.77%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Developer
6 2 (3.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Senior
7 1 (1.89%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) cloud-init
2 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.77%) Spring
2 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.77%) Swagger
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.89%) Guice
3 1 (1.89%) jQuery
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.89%) Node.js
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Vue
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
3 1 (1.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.66%) Clustering
2 3 (5.66%) Replication
2 3 (5.66%) Smart Meter
3 2 (3.77%) PKI
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (83.02%) Linux
2 25 (47.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (22.64%) Unix
4 10 (18.87%) VMS
5 7 (13.21%) CentOS
6 6 (11.32%) Windows
7 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
8 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (69.81%) DevOps
2 24 (45.28%) Agile
3 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.96%) Containerisation
5 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (22.64%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Build Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Configuration Management
9 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.32%) Runbook
9 6 (11.32%) Scrum
9 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 5 (9.43%) Cloud Security
10 5 (9.43%) Re-Platforming
11 4 (7.55%) GitOps
11 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
12 3 (5.66%) Business Continuity
12 3 (5.66%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) Bash
3 10 (18.87%) Shell Script
4 6 (11.32%) Go
4 6 (11.32%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.66%) C
6 3 (5.66%) C++
6 3 (5.66%) Rust
7 2 (3.77%) Ruby
8 1 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) Korn
8 1 (1.89%) Perl
8 1 (1.89%) SQL
8 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (60.38%) Security Cleared
2 29 (54.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) NCSC
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (58.49%) Docker
2 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.21%) vSphere
4 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) KVM
6 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (73.58%) Terraform
2 37 (69.81%) Kubernetes
3 29 (54.72%) Ansible
4 16 (30.19%) Consul
5 8 (15.09%) vRealize
6 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (13.21%) Puppet
7 5 (9.43%) Grafana
8 4 (7.55%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (7.55%) Rancher
9 3 (5.66%) Kibana
10 2 (3.77%) Graphite
10 2 (3.77%) HAProxy
10 2 (3.77%) Istio
10 2 (3.77%) linkerd
10 2 (3.77%) logstash
10 2 (3.77%) Opsgenie
10 2 (3.77%) Podman
10 2 (3.77%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) VMware
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
2 8 (15.09%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.43%) Arqiva
3 5 (9.43%) Confluent
3 5 (9.43%) Dynatrace
3 5 (9.43%) Veritas
4 4 (7.55%) Splunk
5 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.77%) IBM
5 2 (3.77%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.89%) Dell
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.89%) Sybase