Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Application Packaging
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 4.07% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 25 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 77.24% 64.10% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 20 22
10th Percentile £425 £195 £105
25th Percentile £493 £258 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £341
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +10.13% -47.62%
75th Percentile £638 £508 £534
90th Percentile £725 £555 £549
Suffolk median daily rate £513 £365 £309
% change year-on-year +40.41% +18.03% -48.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £15.48 - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £14.05
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £14.60
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.99%
75th Percentile £20.88 - £15.15
90th Percentile £23.00 - £15.89
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 £35.67 £14.60
% change year-on-year -52.01% +144.28% -17.89%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Packaging relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 5G
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Jinja
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) pytest
2 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) API Integration
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Process Management
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft