Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in London

Application Packaging
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 355 408
Rank change year-on-year +3 +53 +112
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 19 38 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 17
10th Percentile £321 £263 £404
25th Percentile £403 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £380 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% -20.00% +14.46%
75th Percentile £599 £450 £538
90th Percentile £615 £488 -
England median daily rate £450 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +18.42% -24.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - £63.60
England median hourly rate £59.50 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -60.33% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,381 14,325 18,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.48% 89.25% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,179 9,289 13,517
10th Percentile £334 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.88%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 177 228
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £21.69
Median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% -6.25% +5.44%
75th Percentile £48.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in London

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in London

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Packaging.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Central London +7 8 £610 +43.53% 1
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) GCP
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) Slack
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) GitLab
1 4 (21.05%) Gradle
1 4 (21.05%) Maven
1 4 (21.05%) Selenium
1 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
2 2 (10.53%) MSI
3 1 (5.26%) AdminStudio
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Applications Packager
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) CrewAI
1 1 (5.26%) LangChain
1 1 (5.26%) LangGraph
1 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
2 5 (26.32%) GitOps
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
3 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) LLM
6 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) VBScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) SCCM
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (26.32%) Argo
3 5 (26.32%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Citrix
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.26%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) Tanium
5 1 (5.26%) Tenable