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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 420 491
Rank change year-on-year -51 +71 +133
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 74 99 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.37% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 55
10th Percentile £311 £254 £363
25th Percentile £394 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -7.89% +28.38%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £538
90th Percentile £625 £619 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £59.10 - £36.83
25th Percentile £59.25 - £40.69
Median hourly rate £59.50 £23.80 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -49.63% +180.75%
75th Percentile £59.75 - £53.69
90th Percentile £59.90 - £57.48
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £23.80 £47.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -49.63% +180.75%

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 27,324 27,092 35,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.37% 86.76% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,372 16,558 24,038
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 983 1,478
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +13 22 £475 +8.57% 15
South West +6 18 £450 +44.00% 5
South East -39 15 £496 +4.42% 12
Midlands - 11 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £600 -
North of England -45 4 £288 -39.47% 2
East of England - 3 £450 -
East Midlands - 3 £568 - 1
North West -24 2 £288 -39.47% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (17.57%) AWS
4 12 (16.22%) GCP
5 10 (13.51%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.41%) GitHub
6 4 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (5.41%) Slack
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.70%) IaaS
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Firewall
1 2 (2.70%) Internet
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 20 (27.03%) MSI
2 11 (14.86%) AdminStudio
3 9 (12.16%) InstallShield
4 4 (5.41%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) Gradle
4 4 (5.41%) Maven
4 4 (5.41%) Selenium
4 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.05%) JIRA
6 2 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.70%) Chocolatey
6 2 (2.70%) Git
7 1 (1.35%) MLflow
7 1 (1.35%) WiX
General
1 12 (16.22%) Documentation Skills
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.35%) Banking
4 1 (1.35%) International Banking
4 1 (1.35%) Military
4 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Applications Engineer
2 9 (12.16%) Deployment Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Architect
4 7 (9.46%) Applications Packager
5 5 (6.76%) Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Application Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Applications Specialist
7 3 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Migration Specialist
8 2 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) PowerShell Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.70%) BREW
3 1 (1.35%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.35%) LangChain
3 1 (1.35%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Cloud Native
1 7 (9.46%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.70%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (77.03%) Windows
2 34 (45.95%) Windows 10
3 10 (13.51%) Mac OS
4 6 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.41%) Linux
5 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.70%) Android
6 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.35%) CentOS
7 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Migration
2 14 (18.92%) DevOps
2 14 (18.92%) ITIL
3 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.16%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.16%) Decision-Making
6 8 (10.81%) Agile
7 7 (9.46%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (8.11%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.11%) GitOps
8 6 (8.11%) Incident Management
8 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (6.76%) IT Strategy
9 5 (6.76%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (6.76%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (6.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.30%) PowerShell
2 14 (18.92%) VBScript
3 7 (9.46%) Bash
3 7 (9.46%) Python
4 4 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) SQL
6 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) MCSA
4 4 (5.41%) Citrix Certification
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.05%) CBAP
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.05%) MCSE
6 2 (2.70%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.70%) CISSP
6 2 (2.70%) MCITP
6 2 (2.70%) MCP
6 2 (2.70%) MCTS
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) GDPR
2 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) NIST
3 3 (4.05%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (36.49%) Active Directory
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (6.76%) Docker
3 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (59.46%) SCCM
2 27 (36.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (10.81%) Terraform
4 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
5 6 (8.11%) Argo
6 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.35%) Ansible
7 1 (1.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (52.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) Citrix
2 10 (13.51%) VMware
3 6 (8.11%) Google
3 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.05%) Tanium
4 3 (4.05%) Tenable
5 2 (2.70%) ArcSight
5 2 (2.70%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.35%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.35%) Qualys
6 1 (1.35%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.35%) Remedy