Software Packaging Contracts in England

Software Packaging
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Packaging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Packaging over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 629 735
Rank change year-on-year +99 +106 -144
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 15 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.059% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.26% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 21
10th Percentile £212 - £300
25th Percentile £220 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £315 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% -33.68% +39.71%
75th Percentile £352 £330 £585
90th Percentile £403 £350 £650
UK median daily rate £331 £315 £500
% change year-on-year +5.16% -37.00% +47.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £21.08 £60.15 -
25th Percentile £23.80 £60.38 £17.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 £61.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +232.43% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £63.38 £19.25
90th Percentile £39.66 £64.05 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £61.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.97% +232.43% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Software Packaging is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks 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 technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,501 11,753 19,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.18% 23.19% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,340 8,694 14,422
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 140 215
10th Percentile £21.54 £25.75 £21.40
25th Percentile £40.16 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Packaging in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Packaging in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Packaging in England

Software 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 Software Packaging within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +112 10 £220 -39.73% 2
North of England - 2 £325 - 4
East of England - 2 - -
Midlands +12 1 £338 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North West - 1 £325 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 4
Software Packaging
UK

Software 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 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Mimecast
3 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
3 2 (13.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DKIM
1 2 (13.33%) DMARC
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Extranet
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) NAS
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
1 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MSI
General
1 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Advertising
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Local Government
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Configuration Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Configuration Specialist
1 3 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (13.33%) Support Officer
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (26.67%) NHS
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 5 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (26.67%) Patch Management
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
6 2 (13.33%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
6 2 (13.33%) Server Management
6 2 (13.33%) Software Deployment
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (13.33%) A+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) MCSE
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) BitLocker
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) SCCM
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (46.67%) WSUS
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
4 2 (13.33%) SCOM
4 2 (13.33%) SCVMM
4 2 (13.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Avaya
2 2 (13.33%) Brocade
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Commvault
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (13.33%) EMC
2 2 (13.33%) Equitrac
2 2 (13.33%) F5
2 2 (13.33%) Forcepoint
2 2 (13.33%) HP
2 2 (13.33%) Juniper
2 2 (13.33%) Mitel
2 2 (13.33%) MobileIron
2 2 (13.33%) Proofpoint
2 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Wyse