Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in the North West

Application Packaging
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 150 117 129
Rank change year-on-year -33 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.22% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.39% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £371 £293 -
25th Percentile £394 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% +22.58% +38.39%
75th Percentile £435 £494 £400
90th Percentile £436 £498 -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +35.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,399 1,804 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 89.00% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 1,086 1,597
10th Percentile £216 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £381 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 104 228
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.04 £12.67
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.36 £16.05
Median hourly rate £44.00 £31.64 £26.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.06% +19.28% -29.27%
75th Percentile £63.40 £56.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.66 £54.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in the North West

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Application Packaging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Application Packaging.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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
Manchester -16 4 £435 -10.87% 1
Cheshire - 1 £363 -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MSI
2 1 (16.67%) InstallShield
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Packager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
1 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Ivanti