Application Packaging Contracts in the Midlands

Application Packaging
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Application Packaging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Packaging over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 136 147
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +61
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 7 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.035% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.044% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £265 - £344
25th Percentile £286 - £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £300 £444
Median % change year-on-year - -32.39% +8.23%
75th Percentile £492 - £506
90th Percentile £632 - £581
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,102 2,267 2,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.47% 80.33% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,533 1,933
10th Percentile £218 £251 £256
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -0.40% +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 135 89
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.56 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.12 £13.96 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.28 £18.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -34.55% +40.43%
75th Percentile £26.69 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Application Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the Midlands

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in the Midlands

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in the Midlands

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in the Midlands

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
West Midlands +8 5 £293 -2.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £492 -
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Packager
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) VMware