Application Packaging Contracts in the City of London

Application Packaging
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 109 161
Rank change year-on-year -11 +52 +16
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 3 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.69% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.76% 0.30%
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
Central London median daily rate £650 £385 £473
% change year-on-year +68.83% -18.52% +78.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the City of London

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in the City of London

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in the City of London

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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