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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 433 414
Rank change year-on-year -84 -19 +95
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 112 76 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 55
10th Percentile £300 £300 £267
25th Percentile £375 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +18.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £498 £615 £511
90th Percentile £575 £659 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £436 £400
% change year-on-year -2.52% +9.00% -15.79%
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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 14 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
North of England -45 35 £413 +43.48% 17
London -64 35 £450 -10.00% 19
North West -19 34 £420 +46.09% 14
South West -50 16 £393 +17.16% 6
Midlands -47 12 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands -44 11 £475 -20.83% 1
East of England -26 8 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -68 5 £513 -1.16% 13
East Midlands -18 1 £500 -12.02% 4
North East -39 1 £290 -38.95% 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 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.14%) Entra ID
2 32 (28.57%) Azure
3 25 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.57%) AWS
5 4 (3.57%) GitHub
5 4 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.68%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.89%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) DNS
2 9 (8.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.25%) DHCP
4 6 (5.36%) Firewall
5 5 (4.46%) LAN
5 5 (4.46%) VPN
5 5 (4.46%) WAN
6 4 (3.57%) 5G
6 4 (3.57%) HTTP
6 4 (3.57%) Internet
6 4 (3.57%) SSH
7 3 (2.68%) 4G
7 3 (2.68%) Network Security
7 3 (2.68%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.68%) SSL
8 2 (1.79%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.89%) SMTP
9 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.89%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) MongoDB
1 5 (4.46%) MySQL
1 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (21.43%) MSI
2 13 (11.61%) InstallShield
3 9 (8.04%) AdminStudio
3 9 (8.04%) GitLab
3 9 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.46%) Git
4 5 (4.46%) JIRA
5 3 (2.68%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.68%) Selenium
5 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.79%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.89%) WiX
General
1 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Legal
5 9 (8.04%) Finance
6 7 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.46%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.68%) Local Government
8 3 (2.68%) Military
9 2 (1.79%) Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (15.18%) Applications Packager
2 9 (8.04%) Applications Engineer
3 8 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (6.25%) Senior
5 5 (4.46%) Consultant
5 5 (4.46%) Developer
5 5 (4.46%) Python Developer
5 5 (4.46%) Support Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) Administrator
6 4 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) Field Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) Field Service Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 3 (2.68%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) Software Packaging
2 5 (4.46%) CSS
2 5 (4.46%) FastAPI
2 5 (4.46%) Flask
2 5 (4.46%) HTML
2 5 (4.46%) Jinja
2 5 (4.46%) Pandas
2 5 (4.46%) REST
2 5 (4.46%) RESTful
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 4 (3.57%) .NET
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.68%) Kafka
4 3 (2.68%) Playwright
4 3 (2.68%) pytest
4 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.68%) SAML
5 2 (1.79%) ADO
5 2 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.79%) PKI
6 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (69.64%) Windows
2 31 (27.68%) Windows 10
3 11 (9.82%) Mac OS
4 10 (8.93%) Apple iOS
5 8 (7.14%) Android
6 7 (6.25%) Windows Server
7 6 (5.36%) Linux
7 6 (5.36%) Windows 7
7 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.89%) CentOS
9 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.43%) ITIL
1 24 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (17.86%) Migration
3 18 (16.07%) DevOps
4 16 (14.29%) User Experience
5 15 (13.39%) CI/CD
6 12 (10.71%) Agile
6 12 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (10.71%) Task Automation
6 12 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 11 (9.82%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (8.93%) Change Management
8 10 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.04%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (8.04%) Validation
10 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.14%) Zero Trust
11 7 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (54.46%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.25%) Bash
3 5 (4.46%) Python
3 5 (4.46%) Shell Script
3 5 (4.46%) SQL
4 2 (1.79%) C#
4 2 (1.79%) C++
4 2 (1.79%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.89%) Bicep
5 1 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.79%) SLA
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (33.93%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 14 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (8.04%) Docker
5 5 (4.46%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.68%) Firmware
7 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.79%) zsh
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (54.46%) SCCM
2 54 (48.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.25%) Grafana
3 7 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 4 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.68%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.89%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 73 (65.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
2 8 (7.14%) Citrix
2 8 (7.14%) Ivanti
3 6 (5.36%) Apple
3 6 (5.36%) Zscaler
4 4 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.68%) McAfee
5 3 (2.68%) VMware
6 2 (1.79%) MobileIron
6 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.89%) Dell
7 1 (0.89%) F5
7 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.89%) HP
7 1 (0.89%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.89%) Tanium