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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 450 425
Rank change year-on-year -71 -25 +82
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 108 75 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 56
10th Percentile £300 £301 £270
25th Percentile £371 £343 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +18.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £496 £566 £525
90th Percentile £575 £659 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £403
% change year-on-year -5.56% +11.80% -19.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £59.10 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £59.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +150.00% -60.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 -
90th Percentile - £59.90 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +17.65% +150.00% -60.33%

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 39,024 25,017 28,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.79% 90.76% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,890 17,961
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,630 1,464 1,392
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.28 £17.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.94
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.43% +2.73%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -54 35 £450 -10.00% 13
North of England -42 32 £402 +9.02% 14
North West -24 31 £404 +9.42% 14
South West -48 15 £385 +11.59% 4
Midlands -54 13 £500 -8.42% 3
West Midlands -44 12 £475 -20.83% 2
East of England -15 7 £425 +6.25%
South East -85 6 £475 -10.12% 7
East Midlands -17 1 £500 +1.63% 1
North East -39 1 £290 -38.95%
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 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) Entra ID
2 34 (31.48%) Azure
3 27 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.70%) AWS
5 4 (3.70%) GitHub
5 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.78%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.85%) SaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) DNS
2 10 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.41%) DHCP
4 7 (6.48%) Firewall
5 6 (5.56%) LAN
5 6 (5.56%) VPN
5 6 (5.56%) WAN
6 5 (4.63%) Internet
7 4 (3.70%) 5G
7 4 (3.70%) HTTP
7 4 (3.70%) Network Security
7 4 (3.70%) SD-WAN
7 4 (3.70%) SSH
7 4 (3.70%) SSL
8 3 (2.78%) 4G
9 2 (1.85%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.93%) SMTP
10 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.93%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) MongoDB
1 5 (4.63%) MySQL
1 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (22.22%) MSI
2 13 (12.04%) InstallShield
3 9 (8.33%) AdminStudio
3 9 (8.33%) GitLab
3 9 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.63%) Git
4 5 (4.63%) JIRA
5 4 (3.70%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
6 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.85%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.93%) WiX
General
1 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.26%) Finance
4 10 (9.26%) Legal
5 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.78%) Local Government
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Military
7 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (15.74%) Applications Packager
2 9 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (6.48%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (5.56%) Senior
5 5 (4.63%) Developer
5 5 (4.63%) Python Developer
5 5 (4.63%) Support Engineer
6 4 (3.70%) Administrator
6 4 (3.70%) Consultant
6 4 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Field Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 3 (2.78%) Test Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) Software Packaging
2 5 (4.63%) CSS
2 5 (4.63%) FastAPI
2 5 (4.63%) Flask
2 5 (4.63%) HTML
2 5 (4.63%) Jinja
2 5 (4.63%) Pandas
2 5 (4.63%) REST
2 5 (4.63%) RESTful
2 5 (4.63%) Terraform
3 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) SAML
4 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.78%) Kafka
4 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.78%) Playwright
4 3 (2.78%) pytest
4 3 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.85%) ADO
5 2 (1.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.63%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 75 (69.44%) Windows
2 30 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 12 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 10 (9.26%) Apple iOS
5 8 (7.41%) Android
6 6 (5.56%) Linux
6 6 (5.56%) Windows Server
7 5 (4.63%) Windows 7
7 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.93%) CentOS
9 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (22.22%) ITIL
3 19 (17.59%) DevOps
3 19 (17.59%) Migration
4 17 (15.74%) User Experience
5 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 12 (11.11%) Agile
6 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (10.19%) Task Automation
8 10 (9.26%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (8.33%) Change Management
9 9 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.41%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (7.41%) Validation
10 8 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 58 (53.70%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.48%) Bash
3 5 (4.63%) Python
3 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
3 5 (4.63%) SQL
4 2 (1.85%) C#
4 2 (1.85%) C++
4 2 (1.85%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.85%) VBScript
5 1 (0.93%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 40 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (35.19%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
3 14 (12.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (8.33%) Docker
5 5 (4.63%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.78%) Firmware
7 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.85%) zsh
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (52.78%) SCCM
2 50 (46.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.48%) Grafana
3 7 (6.48%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.70%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.78%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.93%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 68 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.41%) Citrix
3 7 (6.48%) Zscaler
4 6 (5.56%) Apple
4 6 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (5.56%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.78%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.78%) McAfee
5 3 (2.78%) VMware
6 2 (1.85%) MobileIron
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.93%) Dell
7 1 (0.93%) F5
7 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.93%) HP
7 1 (0.93%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.93%) Tanium