Software Packaging Contracts in the East of England

Software Packaging
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Software Packaging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Packaging over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 111 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.10% 0.052% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £463 £338 £330
% change year-on-year +37.04% +2.27% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +152.10% -60.33% +224.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

Software Packaging falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 287 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.89% 14.83% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 148 167
10th Percentile £325 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -0.86%
75th Percentile £609 £582 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 56 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £75.34 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.20% -18.10% -18.84%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £65.63 £74.05
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +22.64%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Software Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in the East of England

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in the East of England

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in the East of England

Software Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Packaging within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 11
Software Packaging
England

Software Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
1 1 (100.00%) WiX
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Software Rationalisation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
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