Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Application Packaging
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 121 127
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +65
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.16% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £490 £394 -
25th Percentile £605 £403 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £438 £385
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% +13.64% -40.83%
75th Percentile £615 £459 £488
90th Percentile - £461 £495
Central London median daily rate £610 £438 £430
% change year-on-year +39.43% +1.74% -33.85%

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 1,644 1,908 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.88% 91.95% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,163 1,636
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £689
90th Percentile £758 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -38.92%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in the City of London

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in the City of London

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (80.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Gradle
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
1 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google