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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 433 429
Rank change year-on-year -102 -4 +84
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 87 72 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 52 53
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £355 £341 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £604 £556
90th Percentile £566 £659 £595
UK median daily rate £400 £438 £438
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -7.89%
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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -48 37 £450 - 2
North of England -61 16 £400 +8.47% 4
North West -39 15 £400 +8.47% 3
Midlands -42 14 £488 -10.71% 5
West Midlands -54 13 £475 -20.83% 1
South West -39 10 £374 +18.65% 1
South East -82 7 £450 -16.20% 2
East of England -16 3 £400 - 1
East Midlands -16 1 £500 +1.63% 4
North East -38 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 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) Entra ID
2 37 (42.53%) Azure
3 30 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.60%) AWS
5 4 (4.60%) GitHub
5 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
7 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) DNS
2 7 (8.05%) DHCP
3 6 (6.90%) Firewall
3 6 (6.90%) LAN
3 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.90%) WAN
4 5 (5.75%) Internet
4 5 (5.75%) VPN
5 4 (4.60%) Network Security
5 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
5 4 (4.60%) SSL
6 2 (2.30%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.15%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 23 (26.44%) MSI
2 14 (16.09%) InstallShield
3 9 (10.34%) AdminStudio
4 5 (5.75%) JIRA
5 4 (4.60%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (4.60%) GitLab
5 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.30%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.15%) WiX
General
1 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.34%) Finance
4 9 (10.34%) Legal
5 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Military
6 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.15%) Publishing
6 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Applications Packager
2 9 (10.34%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (10.34%) Senior
3 8 (9.20%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.60%) Administrator
4 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (4.60%) Migration Specialist
4 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) Consultant
5 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared Application Packager
5 3 (3.45%) Test Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) Testing Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) Mac Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Software Packaging
2 4 (4.60%) .NET
2 4 (4.60%) SAML
3 2 (2.30%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.30%) ADO
3 2 (2.30%) JSON
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.60%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.30%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 63 (72.41%) Windows
2 22 (25.29%) Windows 10
3 12 (13.79%) Mac OS
4 7 (8.05%) Android
4 7 (8.05%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.15%) CentOS
7 1 (1.15%) Linux
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.89%) ITIL
1 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.29%) User Experience
3 16 (18.39%) Migration
4 13 (14.94%) DevOps
5 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 9 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (9.20%) Agile
6 8 (9.20%) Change Management
6 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (9.20%) Incident Management
6 8 (9.20%) Patch Management
6 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (6.90%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (6.90%) Software Distribution
8 6 (6.90%) Zero Trust
9 5 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (5.75%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.02%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.45%) VBScript
3 2 (2.30%) Bash
3 2 (2.30%) C#
3 2 (2.30%) C++
3 2 (2.30%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (44.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (9.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.05%) Firmware
5 5 (5.75%) BitLocker
6 4 (4.60%) Docker
7 2 (2.30%) zsh
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (54.02%) SCCM
2 42 (48.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.60%) Ansible
3 4 (4.60%) Grafana
3 4 (4.60%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.60%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.15%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 60 (68.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Citrix
3 6 (6.90%) Zscaler
4 5 (5.75%) Nexthink
5 4 (4.60%) Apple
6 3 (3.45%) McAfee
7 2 (2.30%) MobileIron
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco
8 1 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.15%) Dell
8 1 (1.15%) F5
8 1 (1.15%) HP
8 1 (1.15%) Tanium
8 1 (1.15%) Tenable
8 1 (1.15%) VMware