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 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 474 419 501
Rank change year-on-year -55 +82 +96
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 69 87 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 56 49
10th Percentile £323 £275 £383
25th Percentile £400 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -3.68% +31.94%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £538
90th Percentile £625 £675 £626
UK median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +25.00%

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 27,858 25,665 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.92% 88.40% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,750 15,857 22,569
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 863 1,402
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.34 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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
London +3 20 £475 +18.75% 5
South West +3 18 £450 +80.00% 1
South East -59 13 £496 -9.82% 5
Midlands - 10 £600 -
North West -32 7 £398 -16.26%
North of England -43 7 £398 -3.63%
West Midlands - 6 £600 -
East Midlands - 4 £492 -
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 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.68%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (26.09%) Entra ID
4 17 (24.64%) AWS
4 17 (24.64%) GCP
5 4 (5.80%) GitHub
5 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (5.80%) Slack
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.90%) IaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.90%) PaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.90%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) MSI
2 10 (14.49%) InstallShield
3 7 (10.14%) AdminStudio
4 4 (5.80%) GitLab
4 4 (5.80%) Gradle
4 4 (5.80%) Maven
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
4 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.35%) JIRA
6 2 (2.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.90%) Chocolatey
6 2 (2.90%) Git
7 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) International Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Applications Engineer
1 12 (17.39%) Architect
2 8 (11.59%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Applications Packager
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Application Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) BREW
2 1 (1.45%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.45%) LangChain
2 1 (1.45%) LangGraph
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (10.14%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) NHS
5 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (81.16%) Windows
2 35 (50.72%) Windows 10
3 15 (21.74%) Mac OS
4 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (7.25%) Linux
6 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.90%) Android
7 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.90%) CentOS
7 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.45%) VMS
8 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 14 (20.29%) Decision-Making
1 14 (20.29%) DevOps
1 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.94%) ITIL
3 11 (15.94%) Migration
4 10 (14.49%) Business Strategy
4 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
4 10 (14.49%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (14.49%) IT Strategy
4 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
4 10 (14.49%) Thought Leadership
4 10 (14.49%) User Experience
5 9 (13.04%) Agile
5 9 (13.04%) Analytics
5 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (13.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 37 (53.62%) PowerShell
2 15 (21.74%) VBScript
3 12 (17.39%) Bash
4 7 (10.14%) Python
5 4 (5.80%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) SQL
6 2 (2.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.70%) MCSA
5 4 (5.80%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (5.80%) Degree
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.35%) MCSE
7 2 (2.90%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.90%) CISSP
7 2 (2.90%) MCITP
7 2 (2.90%) MCP
7 2 (2.90%) MCTS
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) GDPR
2 11 (15.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.35%) NIST
4 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (46.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (7.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (59.42%) SCCM
2 29 (42.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (13.04%) Terraform
4 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
5 6 (8.70%) Argo
6 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.90%) Nessus
6 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.45%) Ansible
7 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.19%) VMware
3 15 (21.74%) Citrix
4 11 (15.94%) Google
5 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.35%) Tanium
5 3 (4.35%) Tenable
6 2 (2.90%) ArcSight
6 2 (2.90%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.45%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.45%) Qualys
7 1 (1.45%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) Remedy