Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in Central London

Application Packaging
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 133 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +55
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 8 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.13% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.14% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £443 £394 -
25th Percentile £463 £403 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -7.89% -26.99%
75th Percentile £615 £459 £500
90th Percentile - £461 £503
London median daily rate £475 £413 £438
% change year-on-year +15.15% -5.71% -

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 1,809 2,201 2,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.36% 91.82% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 1,383 1,795
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £686 £692
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
% change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Packaging relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in Central London

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in Central London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in Central London

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Application Packaging

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 13 December 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 +4 6 £610 +39.43% 1
City of Westminster - 2 £475 -
Application Packaging
London

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (50.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Gradle
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
1 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) GitOps
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Argo
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft