Software Packaging Contracts in England

Software Packaging
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Software Packaging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Packaging over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 541 617
Rank change year-on-year +92 +76 +131
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 19 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.022% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 24
10th Percentile £269 £314 -
25th Percentile £386 £316 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £338 £328
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% +3.05% -31.05%
75th Percentile £669 £403 £341
90th Percentile £691 £431 £371
UK median daily rate £570 £450 £328
% change year-on-year +26.67% +37.40% -34.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £18.36 £60.15
25th Percentile - £20.40 £60.38
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.30% +232.43%
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £61.50
% change year-on-year - -61.30% +232.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Software Packaging falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,470 7,502 11,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 20.41% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 5,321 8,377
10th Percentile £365 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 228 138
10th Percentile £33.25 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.20 £43.00 £50.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.01 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Packaging in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software 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 Software Packaging within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Midlands +28 8 £688 +103.70%
West Midlands +27 8 £688 +103.70%
London +36 5 £400 -11.11% 1
North of England +18 3 £400 +23.08% 3
North West +16 3 £400 +23.08% 2
South East - 2 £525 - 1
South West - 2 £205 - 5
Software Packaging
UK

Software Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.26%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MSI
2 1 (5.26%) AdminStudio
2 1 (5.26%) InstallShield
2 1 (5.26%) WiX
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (10.53%) Applications Packager
1 2 (10.53%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Head of IT
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Head of Digital
2 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Senior
2 1 (5.26%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Senior SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) SCADA
2 1 (5.26%) EFT
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.53%) Android
4 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Software Deployment
2 7 (36.84%) Software Distribution
3 6 (31.58%) Software Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) User Experience
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.26%) API Integration
6 1 (5.26%) Application Packaging
6 1 (5.26%) Change Control
6 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) ITSM
6 1 (5.26%) Service Management
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) PowerShell
2 6 (31.58%) Bash
2 6 (31.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) SCCM
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Tanium
3 2 (10.53%) Dell
3 2 (10.53%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Foundry
4 1 (5.26%) Globalscape