Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Application Packaging
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 80 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.29% 0.60% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.65% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £432 £466 -
25th Percentile £433 £472 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +25.81% +35.96%
75th Percentile £436 £497 £400
90th Percentile £436 £499 -
North West median daily rate £433 £475 £388
% change year-on-year -8.84% +22.58% +38.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,210 918 1,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.00% 91.25% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 595 953
10th Percentile £306 £294 £313
25th Percentile £381 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 32 73
10th Percentile £18.11 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.92% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £34.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £44.00 £31.64 £26.53
% change year-on-year +39.06% +19.28% -29.27%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in Manchester

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Thought Leadership
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Ivanti