Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in Chester

Application Packaging
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 69 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 76.88% 81.18% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 32 18
10th Percentile £300 £204 £452
25th Percentile £419 £422 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +12.56%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £738
90th Percentile £675 £761 £741
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +6.28% -6.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile - £12.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £12.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £14.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.18% -60.00% +10.17%
75th Percentile £37.50 £20.20 £41.25
90th Percentile £74.13 £23.17 £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in Chester

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (100.00%) Project Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Application Rationalisation
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft