Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in the South West

Application Packaging
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 121 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +12
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 19 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.93% 0.53% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.63% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 4
10th Percentile £308 £245 -
25th Percentile £321 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £475 £388 £439
90th Percentile £520 £533 £442
England median daily rate £450 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +18.42% -24.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
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
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,079 2,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.72% 84.44% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,228 1,889
10th Percentile £221 £308 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 173 283
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.46 £20.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £36.25 £45.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -6.05%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in the South West

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging in the South West over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in the South West

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Gloucestershire +18 12 £385 -26.67% 1
Wiltshire +9 5 £315 -17.11%
Somerset -3 2 - -
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) MSI
2 8 (42.11%) AdminStudio
2 8 (42.11%) InstallShield
3 2 (10.53%) WiX
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Packager
3 3 (15.79%) Build Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Build Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Application Packager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 11 (57.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Agile
1 5 (26.32%) Batch Scripting
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps
1 5 (26.32%) ITIL
1 5 (26.32%) Software Delivery
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.26%) ITSM
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) Software Rationalisation
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
2 9 (47.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) MCSA
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) MCITP
3 1 (5.26%) MCP
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) MCTS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) SCCM
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft