Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in England

Application Packaging
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 439 446
Rank change year-on-year -85 +7 +70
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 85 58 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 41 56
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £362 £313 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -5.01%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £566
90th Percentile £575 £694 £595
UK median daily rate £402 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +0.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile - £59.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £65.00 £59.25 £31.90
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +48.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 -
90th Percentile - £59.90 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.64% +47.50% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,198 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,460 14,972 20,715
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,331 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in England

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in England over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in England

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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
London -44 37 £450 -14.29% 5
North of England -61 15 £400 -11.11% 1
North West -29 14 £400 -11.11% 1
Midlands -48 14 £488 +66.38%
West Midlands -50 13 £475 +62.12%
South West -35 10 £374 +18.65%
South East -66 8 £475 -13.64% 3
East Midlands -12 1 £500 -
East of England -29 1 - -
North East -38 1 £290 -35.56%
Application Packaging
UK

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Entra ID
2 36 (42.35%) Azure
3 29 (34.12%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.71%) AWS
5 4 (4.71%) GitHub
5 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.53%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) IaaS
8 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) DNS
2 6 (7.06%) DHCP
2 6 (7.06%) Firewall
3 5 (5.88%) LAN
3 5 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.88%) VPN
3 5 (5.88%) WAN
4 4 (4.71%) Internet
5 3 (3.53%) Network Security
5 3 (3.53%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.53%) SSL
6 2 (2.35%) WAAS
6 2 (2.35%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.18%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Power BI
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) MSI
2 14 (16.47%) InstallShield
3 9 (10.59%) AdminStudio
4 4 (4.71%) GitLab
4 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.71%) JIRA
5 3 (3.53%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.35%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.18%) WiX
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.59%) Legal
5 8 (9.41%) Finance
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Publishing
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.18%) International Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Applications Packager
2 11 (12.94%) Senior
3 9 (10.59%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (9.41%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Administrator
5 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Migration Specialist
5 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) Citrix Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared Application Packager
6 3 (3.53%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.53%) Testing Engineer
7 2 (2.35%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (2.35%) Applications Support
7 2 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Software Packaging
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (3.53%) SAML
4 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.35%) ADO
4 2 (2.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.24%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.71%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.35%) PKI
6 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (71.76%) Windows
2 23 (27.06%) Windows 10
3 9 (10.59%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.71%) Android
6 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.18%) CentOS
8 1 (1.18%) Linux
8 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) ITIL
2 25 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.88%) User Experience
4 18 (21.18%) Migration
5 12 (14.12%) DevOps
6 9 (10.59%) Agile
6 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
7 8 (9.41%) Change Management
7 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.41%) Patch Management
7 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (8.24%) Computer Science
8 7 (8.24%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (8.24%) Incident Management
8 7 (8.24%) Software Distribution
9 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (5.88%) Task Automation
10 5 (5.88%) Technology Transformation
10 5 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.53%) VBScript
3 2 (2.35%) C#
3 2 (2.35%) C++
3 2 (2.35%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.18%) Bash
4 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.12%) Degree
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) CCA
7 1 (1.18%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.18%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (2.35%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (43.53%) Active Directory
2 15 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.24%) BitLocker
4 7 (8.24%) Firmware
5 4 (4.71%) Docker
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 48 (56.47%) SCCM
2 41 (48.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 4 (4.71%) Grafana
3 4 (4.71%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.71%) Terraform
4 2 (2.35%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.35%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 59 (69.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Citrix
3 5 (5.88%) Nexthink
3 5 (5.88%) Zscaler
4 3 (3.53%) Apple
4 3 (3.53%) MobileIron
5 2 (2.35%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.35%) McAfee
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco
6 1 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.18%) Dell
6 1 (1.18%) F5
6 1 (1.18%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) Tanium
6 1 (1.18%) Tenable