Packer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hashicorp Packer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 409 474
Rank change year-on-year +76 +65 -36
Contract jobs citing Packer 13 56 143
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.089% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 1.44% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 40 103
10th Percentile £331 £421 £485
25th Percentile £481 £499 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +3.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £650
90th Percentile £938 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -17.12% +4.17% +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,648 3,902 7,088
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.27% 16.15% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 2,892 5,283
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -0.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £672
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +12.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 78 47
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +85.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £65.25 £85.75 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.83% +162.68% -45.28%

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

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Packer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Packer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Packer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (53.85%) Confluence
2 6 (46.15%) nginx
3 2 (15.38%) IIS
4 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (15.38%) Miro
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Slack
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) Datadog
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Kerberos
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (7.69%) EasyMock
6 1 (7.69%) Hudson
6 1 (7.69%) JUnit
6 1 (7.69%) Maven
6 1 (7.69%) Mockito
6 1 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) Selenium
6 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (7.69%) TestNG
6 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.69%) Guice
3 1 (7.69%) JAX-RS
3 1 (7.69%) Mustache
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) BCP
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security
4 2 (15.38%) Line Management
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (15.38%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.69%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (7.69%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Consul
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Kibana
4 2 (15.38%) logstash
4 2 (15.38%) Opsgenie
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
5 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Rundeck
5 1 (7.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) Confluent
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Google