Application Packaging Contracts in Central London

Application Packaging
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Application Packaging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Packaging over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 114 164
Rank change year-on-year -10 +50 +18
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 3 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.62% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.68% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 9
10th Percentile - - £210
25th Percentile £625 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £385 £473
Median % change year-on-year +68.83% -18.52% +78.30%
75th Percentile £675 £418 £495
90th Percentile - £538 £504
London median daily rate £450 £385 £473
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.52% -5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Application Packaging falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,860 2,208 3,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.60% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,571 2,388
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in Central London

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in Central London

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in Central London

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
City of London -8 3 £650 +68.83% 1
Application Packaging
London

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware