Applications Packager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Packager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Packager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 389 453
Rank change year-on-year +63 +64 +47
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Packager 10 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.052% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £327 £440 £388
25th Percentile £481 £455 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £485 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +4.86% +18.59%
75th Percentile £578 £577 £491
90th Percentile £588 £583 £500
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% +17.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Applications Packager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Packager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Packager in the UK excluding London

Applications Packager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Packager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Packager in the UK excluding London

Applications Packager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Packager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Packager in the UK excluding London

Applications Packager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Packager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Packager in the UK excluding London

Applications Packager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Packager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +46 7 £550 +7.84%
South West +46 1 - - 1
North of England +19 1 £275 -
East of England - 1 £350 -
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
Applications Packager
UK

Applications Packager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Packager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Applications Packager in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Application Packaging
3 7 (70.00%) VBScript
4 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) VMware
4 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 6 (60.00%) Linux
4 6 (60.00%) Python
4 6 (60.00%) Client/Server
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (60.00%) Application Virtualisation
4 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (30.00%) MSI
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) SCCM
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (10.00%) Data Protection

Applications Packager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Application Packaging
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Application Virtualisation
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (70.00%) VBScript
3 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft