Application Packaging Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Packaging
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 344 455
Rank change year-on-year +21 +111 -103
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 62 113 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.48% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.54% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 84 29
10th Percentile £380 - £133
25th Percentile £425 £200 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £407 £208
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% +96.14% -38.52%
75th Percentile £583 £563 £420
90th Percentile £595 £615 £528
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £423
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.33% +12.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +137.67% - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Application Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the UK excluding London

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in the UK excluding London

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in the UK excluding London

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in the UK excluding London

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +12 31 £550 -6.78% 8
South West +1 16 £396 +98.13% 3
West Midlands +29 10 £425 -19.05%
Midlands +20 10 £425 -11.69%
Scotland +41 2 £188 -54.55% 1
North of England +8 2 £488 +45.52% 6
Yorkshire +26 1 £550 - 1
Wales +18 1 £500 -4.76%
North West +5 1 £425 +26.87% 5
Application Packaging
UK

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (20.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.84%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (12.90%) AWS
4 8 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.42%) DNS
2 10 (16.13%) LAN
3 9 (14.52%) DHCP
4 8 (12.90%) MPLS
4 8 (12.90%) NetScaler
4 8 (12.90%) SAN
4 8 (12.90%) WAN
4 8 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (8.06%) Internet
6 2 (3.23%) Firewall
6 2 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Robot Framework
1 6 (9.68%) Selenium
2 2 (3.23%) MSI
General
1 25 (40.32%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Aerospace
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Analyst
2 12 (19.35%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 9 (14.52%) IT Analyst
4 9 (14.52%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (12.90%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Applications Packager
7 5 (8.06%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Solutions Analyst
8 4 (6.45%) Senior
9 3 (4.84%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Desktop Support
9 3 (4.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.94%) Client/Server
2 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.90%) Clustering
4 3 (4.84%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.84%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (80.65%) Windows
2 29 (46.77%) Windows Server
3 27 (43.55%) Linux
4 18 (29.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (22.58%) Windows 10
6 10 (16.13%) Unix
7 8 (12.90%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.23%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.61%) Solaris
9 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Application Virtualisation
2 16 (25.81%) Agile
2 16 (25.81%) Migration
3 15 (24.19%) DevOps
3 15 (24.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 13 (20.97%) Server Management
5 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
5 11 (17.74%) Network Management
6 9 (14.52%) Release Management
7 8 (12.90%) Asset Management
7 8 (12.90%) Business Transformation
7 8 (12.90%) Capacity Management
7 8 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (12.90%) Change Management
7 8 (12.90%) Data Migration
7 8 (12.90%) Data Protection
7 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (12.90%) Patch Management
8 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) PowerShell
2 18 (29.03%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) VBScript
3 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) Degree
4 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (54.84%) Active Directory
2 26 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (14.52%) XenApp
3 9 (14.52%) XenDesktop
4 8 (12.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (12.90%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (12.90%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) SCCM
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.90%) Nagios
2 8 (12.90%) NetBackup
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (43.55%) VMware
2 16 (25.81%) NetApp
3 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
4 9 (14.52%) Citrix
5 8 (12.90%) Hitachi
6 3 (4.84%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.23%) Avaya
7 2 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.23%) Oracle
8 1 (1.61%) CA
8 1 (1.61%) FireEye
8 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.61%) Tanium