Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Application Packaging
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +58
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 4 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.24% 1.20% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.41% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 27
10th Percentile - £285 £500
25th Percentile - £329 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £444 £617
90th Percentile - £575 £675
South East median daily rate £519 £380 £550
% change year-on-year +36.45% -30.91% +38.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,488 1,918 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.79% 85.40% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,069 1,665
10th Percentile £270 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 88 88
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.31 £24.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +18.95% +163.16%
75th Percentile £49.28 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.49 £75.08
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the Thames Valley

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Packaging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Packaging.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Application Packaging

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Berkshire -11 2 £400 +14.29%
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
Application Packaging
South East

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) AdminStudio
1 2 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) ThinApp
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Tanium