Application Packaging Contracts in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Application Packaging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Packaging over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 136 160
Rank change year-on-year +34 +24 -40
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 10 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile - £134 £357
25th Percentile £413 £284 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £438 £538 -
90th Percentile - £578 £515
England median daily rate £468 £400 £473
% change year-on-year +16.88% -15.34% +18.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Application Packaging is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Coventry - 8 - -
Birmingham +8 1 £425 -20.00%
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fat Client
1 3 (30.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 10
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Change Management
1 8 (80.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (80.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 8 (80.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (80.00%) XenApp
2 8 (80.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Citrix
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) NetApp