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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 413 502
Rank change year-on-year -41 +89 +143
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 73 96 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 58 58
10th Percentile £300 £250 £371
25th Percentile £341 £326 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -22.05% +21.88%
75th Percentile £599 £525 £538
90th Percentile £635 £613 £629
UK median daily rate £450 £380 £475
% change year-on-year +18.42% -20.00% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £59.10 - £41.98
25th Percentile £59.25 - £53.56
Median hourly rate £59.50 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -60.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £59.75 - £61.13
90th Percentile £59.90 - £63.15
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -60.33% -7.69%

All Process and 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 25,908 27,348 36,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 86.61% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,426 16,672 25,043
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 1,044 1,475
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.80 £66.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% -10.59% +26.87%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 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
South West +17 19 £345 -8.00% 1
London -4 19 £463 +18.59%
South East -25 15 £519 +29.63% 7
Midlands -18 12 £600 +100.00%
West Midlands -5 9 £600 +100.00%
North of England -31 4 £288 +15.00% 4
East of England - 3 £450 -
East Midlands - 3 £568 -
North West -19 2 £288 +15.00% 4
Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) Azure
2 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.07%) AWS
3 11 (15.07%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.07%) GCP
4 4 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (5.48%) Slack
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Internet
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
1 2 (2.74%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) MSI
2 13 (17.81%) AdminStudio
3 10 (13.70%) InstallShield
4 4 (5.48%) GitLab
4 4 (5.48%) Gradle
4 4 (5.48%) Maven
4 4 (5.48%) Selenium
4 4 (5.48%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.11%) JIRA
6 2 (2.74%) WiX
7 1 (1.37%) MLflow
General
1 12 (16.44%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Applications Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Deployment Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Applications Packager
3 8 (10.96%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Application Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Applications Specialist
7 3 (4.11%) Build Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) IT Support
8 2 (2.74%) Migration Specialist
8 2 (2.74%) PowerShell Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.37%) LangChain
3 1 (1.37%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.74%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 59 (80.82%) Windows
2 33 (45.21%) Windows 10
3 8 (10.96%) Mac OS
4 6 (8.22%) Linux
5 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.74%) Android
7 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.37%) CentOS
8 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Migration
2 14 (19.18%) DevOps
2 14 (19.18%) ITIL
3 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (12.33%) Decision-Making
5 8 (10.96%) Agile
6 7 (9.59%) Business Strategy
6 7 (9.59%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (9.59%) IT Strategy
6 7 (9.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.22%) Incident Management
7 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (8.22%) User Experience
8 5 (6.85%) Data Protection
8 5 (6.85%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 36 (49.32%) PowerShell
2 16 (21.92%) VBScript
3 5 (6.85%) Bash
3 5 (6.85%) Python
4 4 (5.48%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) SQL
6 1 (1.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.22%) MCSA
5 3 (4.11%) CBAP
5 3 (4.11%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.11%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.74%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.74%) MCITP
6 2 (2.74%) MCP
6 2 (2.74%) MCSE
6 2 (2.74%) MCTS
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (38.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (23.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (6.85%) Docker
3 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (56.16%) SCCM
2 23 (31.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.85%) Argo
4 5 (6.85%) Terraform
5 2 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.37%) Ansible
6 1 (1.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 35 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Citrix
3 10 (13.70%) VMware
4 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.48%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Tanium
7 2 (2.74%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.37%) Qualys
8 1 (1.37%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.37%) Remedy
8 1 (1.37%) Tenable