Application Packaging Contracts in England

Application Packaging
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Application Packaging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Packaging over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 510 654
Rank change year-on-year +62 +144 -120
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 93 163 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 117 87
10th Percentile £340 £200 £181
25th Percentile £385 £213 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £473
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -15.34% +18.13%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £581
90th Percentile £595 £615 £613
UK median daily rate £460 £400 £423
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.33% +12.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 0
10th Percentile £23.80 - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +137.67% - -
75th Percentile - £17.42 -
90th Percentile - £27.34 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 £66.00
% change year-on-year +137.67% -74.50% +170.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Application Packaging is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 45,385 64,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.22% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,078 31,861 45,788
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 1,585 1,771
10th Percentile £12.93 £10.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Application Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in England.

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Application Packaging in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +93 31 £385 -18.52% 5
South East +21 31 £550 -7.56% 11
South West -9 14 £413 +65.00% 4
West Midlands +31 10 £425 -19.05%
Midlands +12 10 £425 -2.86%
North of England +10 3 £488 +54.76% 5
North West +9 2 £425 +34.92% 5
Yorkshire +26 1 £550 -
East of England +9 1 £110 -45.00% 1
Application Packaging
UK

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (17.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.15%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.56%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.75%) AWS
5 8 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.38%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.15%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.15%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.15%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.88%) DNS
2 15 (16.13%) DHCP
3 11 (11.83%) LAN
4 10 (10.75%) SAN
4 10 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (9.68%) WAN
6 8 (8.60%) Firewall
6 8 (8.60%) MPLS
6 8 (8.60%) NetScaler
7 5 (5.38%) Internet
8 4 (4.30%) IPv4
9 2 (2.15%) DKIM
9 2 (2.15%) DMARC
9 2 (2.15%) Extranet
9 2 (2.15%) NAS
9 2 (2.15%) VPN
9 2 (2.15%) Wireless
10 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) MSI
2 6 (6.45%) Robot Framework
2 6 (6.45%) Selenium
3 3 (3.23%) InstallShield
General
1 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Electronics
7 1 (1.08%) Law
7 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Analyst
2 13 (13.98%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) Applications Packager
4 9 (9.68%) Applications Specialist
4 9 (9.68%) IT Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior
8 5 (5.38%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Market Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Market Data Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Solutions Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) ADO
2 2 (2.15%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Client/Server
2 19 (20.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.60%) Clustering
4 5 (5.38%) Fat Client
4 5 (5.38%) Thin Client
5 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) PKI
8 1 (1.08%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (68.82%) Windows
2 31 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 26 (27.96%) Linux
4 18 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (18.28%) Windows 10
6 10 (10.75%) Unix
7 8 (8.60%) Ubuntu
8 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (2.15%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.08%) Tizen
11 1 (1.08%) tvOS
11 1 (1.08%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.66%) Application Virtualisation
2 18 (19.35%) Migration
3 16 (17.20%) Agile
3 16 (17.20%) DevOps
4 15 (16.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (13.98%) Server Management
6 11 (11.83%) Decision-Making
6 11 (11.83%) Network Management
6 11 (11.83%) Release Management
7 10 (10.75%) Asset Management
7 10 (10.75%) Capacity Management
7 10 (10.75%) Patch Management
8 9 (9.68%) Change Management
8 9 (9.68%) Data Migration
8 9 (9.68%) Data Protection
8 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) Business Transformation
9 8 (8.60%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (7.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 57 (61.29%) PowerShell
2 24 (25.81%) VBScript
3 18 (19.35%) Python
4 5 (5.38%) SQL
5 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.35%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.83%) Degree
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (45.16%) Active Directory
2 29 (31.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (9.68%) XenApp
4 9 (9.68%) XenDesktop
5 8 (8.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (8.60%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (8.60%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.15%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (26.88%) SCCM
2 13 (13.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (10.75%) NetBackup
4 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (8.60%) Nagios
5 5 (5.38%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.15%) SCOM
7 2 (2.15%) SCVMM
7 2 (2.15%) VxRail
8 1 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 31 (33.33%) VMware
2 27 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 16 (17.20%) NetApp
4 14 (15.05%) Citrix
5 8 (8.60%) Hitachi
6 3 (3.23%) ArcSight
6 3 (3.23%) Cisco
6 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.15%) Avaya
7 2 (2.15%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.15%) Commvault
7 2 (2.15%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.15%) Equitrac
7 2 (2.15%) F5
7 2 (2.15%) Juniper
7 2 (2.15%) MobileIron
7 2 (2.15%) Proofpoint
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.15%) Refinitiv
7 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds