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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 428 444
Rank change year-on-year -73 +16 +55
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 83 58 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 50
10th Percentile £326 £308 £336
25th Percentile £400 £366 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +6.95% +16.88%
75th Percentile £475 £609 £575
90th Percentile £520 £675 £595
UK median daily rate £425 £497 £465
% change year-on-year -14.40% +6.77% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +137.67%

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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -41 36 £450 - 3
North West -26 14 £400 -15.79% 2
North of England -73 14 £400 -11.11% 3
Midlands -54 13 £475 +77.57% 3
South West -31 10 £425 +25.93%
West Midlands -51 10 £475 +77.57% 1
South East -77 9 £478 -16.96% 5
East Midlands - 3 £468 - 2
East of England -31 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 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.60%) Azure
2 38 (45.78%) Entra ID
3 36 (43.37%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.64%) AWS
5 7 (8.43%) GCP
6 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.61%) GitHub
8 3 (3.61%) IaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.41%) PaaS
9 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.41%) SaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.20%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) DNS
2 7 (8.43%) Firewall
3 5 (6.02%) DHCP
3 5 (6.02%) VPN
4 4 (4.82%) LAN
4 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.82%) WAN
5 3 (3.61%) Internet
5 3 (3.61%) NetScaler
5 3 (3.61%) Network Security
5 3 (3.61%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.61%) SSL
6 2 (2.41%) WAAS
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) MSI
2 13 (15.66%) InstallShield
3 6 (7.23%) AdminStudio
4 4 (4.82%) JIRA
5 3 (3.61%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.41%) Chocolatey
6 2 (2.41%) Git
7 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.20%) WiX
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Legal
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) International Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Publishing
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Military
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Applications Packager
2 13 (15.66%) Senior
3 9 (10.84%) Architect
4 8 (9.64%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Citrix Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.61%) Applications Support
7 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.61%) Lead
7 3 (3.61%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 3 (3.61%) Senior Citrix Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.61%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Testing Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Software Packaging
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (3.61%) SAML
3 2 (2.41%) .NET
3 2 (2.41%) ADO
3 2 (2.41%) BREW
3 2 (2.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (83.13%) Windows
2 30 (36.14%) Windows 10
3 13 (15.66%) Mac OS
4 6 (7.23%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.41%) Android
6 2 (2.41%) CentOS
6 2 (2.41%) Linux
6 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.33%) ITIL
2 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (28.92%) User Experience
4 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.87%) Migration
6 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.64%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.64%) DevOps
9 8 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (8.43%) Analytics
10 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.43%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.43%) Patch Management
10 7 (8.43%) Software Distribution
11 6 (7.23%) Agile
11 6 (7.23%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (7.23%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.43%) Bash
3 3 (3.61%) VBScript
4 2 (2.41%) C#
4 2 (2.41%) Python
4 2 (2.41%) VB
4 2 (2.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) Degree
4 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.61%) CCA
7 3 (3.61%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (3.61%) MCSE
8 2 (2.41%) CISSP
8 2 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) GDPR
2 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.82%) SLA
4 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.41%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.05%) Microsoft App-V
3 9 (10.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.43%) BitLocker
4 7 (8.43%) Firmware
4 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (57.83%) SCCM
2 46 (55.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.82%) Terraform
4 3 (3.61%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.41%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.20%) Argo
6 1 (1.20%) Nessus
6 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (68.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.69%) Citrix
3 8 (9.64%) VMware
4 7 (8.43%) Google
5 4 (4.82%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.82%) Nexthink
6 3 (3.61%) MobileIron
6 3 (3.61%) Tenable
6 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.20%) Apple
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco
8 1 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.20%) Dell
8 1 (1.20%) HP
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.20%) Tanium