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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 440 441
Rank change year-on-year -102 +1 +75
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 98 77 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 51 50
10th Percentile £313 £286 £253
25th Percentile £400 £333 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year - +18.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £500 £615 £518
90th Percentile £575 £663 £575
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £380
% change year-on-year -2.78% +18.42% -24.00%
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 39,045 25,398 28,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.94% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,601 16,100 17,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,948 1,574 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -37 38 £420 +49.33% 16
North West -9 37 £420 +46.09% 13
London -74 29 £450 -2.70% 15
South West -45 11 £450 +30.43% 5
East of England -18 9 £425 +6.25% 1
Midlands -48 6 £550 -8.33% 5
West Midlands -51 6 £550 -8.33%
South East -70 4 £550 +2.14% 8
North East - 1 £290 -
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 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) Entra ID
2 26 (26.53%) Azure
3 18 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) AWS
5 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.08%) GitHub
5 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.04%) SaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) DNS
2 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.10%) 5G
3 5 (5.10%) HTTP
3 5 (5.10%) SSH
4 4 (4.08%) 4G
4 4 (4.08%) DHCP
4 4 (4.08%) Firewall
5 2 (2.04%) Internet
5 2 (2.04%) LAN
5 2 (2.04%) VPN
5 2 (2.04%) WAN
5 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.02%) Network Security
6 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.02%) SMTP
6 1 (1.02%) SSL
6 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) MongoDB
1 6 (6.12%) MySQL
1 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (22.45%) MSI
2 10 (10.20%) GitLab
2 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.12%) Git
4 5 (5.10%) AdminStudio
4 5 (5.10%) InstallShield
5 4 (4.08%) Selenium
6 2 (2.04%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.04%) JIRA
6 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
General
1 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Legal
5 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.10%) Local Government
7 4 (4.08%) Finance
7 4 (4.08%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (13.27%) Applications Packager
2 7 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (6.12%) Developer
3 6 (6.12%) Python Developer
4 5 (5.10%) Consultant
4 5 (5.10%) Senior
4 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.08%) Analyst
5 4 (4.08%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.08%) Field Engineer
5 4 (4.08%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Administrator
6 3 (3.06%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) Applications Analyst
7 2 (2.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.14%) Software Packaging
2 6 (6.12%) CSS
2 6 (6.12%) FastAPI
2 6 (6.12%) Flask
2 6 (6.12%) HTML
2 6 (6.12%) Jinja
2 6 (6.12%) Pandas
2 6 (6.12%) REST
2 6 (6.12%) RESTful
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (5.10%) Terraform
4 4 (4.08%) .NET
4 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.08%) Kafka
4 4 (4.08%) Playwright
4 4 (4.08%) pytest
4 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.04%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.04%) ADO
5 2 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.12%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.08%) PKI
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (70.41%) Windows
2 31 (31.63%) Windows 10
3 14 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 9 (9.18%) Android
4 9 (9.18%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.12%) Linux
5 6 (6.12%) Windows 7
5 6 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.47%) ITIL
2 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (18.37%) Migration
4 17 (17.35%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.29%) DevOps
5 14 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 14 (14.29%) User Experience
6 13 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.18%) Agile
8 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (9.18%) Validation
9 8 (8.16%) Software Deployment
9 8 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (8.16%) Zero Trust
10 7 (7.14%) Service Management
10 7 (7.14%) Task Automation
11 6 (6.12%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (6.12%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.16%) Bash
3 6 (6.12%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) Shell Script
3 6 (6.12%) SQL
4 2 (2.04%) C#
4 2 (2.04%) C++
4 2 (2.04%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.02%) Bicep
5 1 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Active Directory
2 18 (18.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (16.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (10.20%) Docker
5 3 (3.06%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.04%) Firmware
6 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.04%) zsh
7 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (54.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (52.04%) SCCM
3 8 (8.16%) Grafana
3 8 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.08%) Ansible
4 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.06%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (69.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Apple
3 9 (9.18%) Ivanti
4 8 (8.16%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (7.14%) Citrix
6 4 (4.08%) CyberArk
6 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.08%) Zscaler
7 3 (3.06%) McAfee
8 2 (2.04%) Snow
8 2 (2.04%) VMware
9 1 (1.02%) F5
9 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.02%) MobileIron
9 1 (1.02%) Nexthink