Application Packaging Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Application Packaging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.86%
75th Percentile £488 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +35.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,199 1,297 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.20% 88.77% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 813 1,030
10th Percentile £290 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 49 109
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £11.87
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.22 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%
75th Percentile £26.98 £33.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £33.20 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Application Packaging job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 13 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
Coventry - 3 £475 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) InstallShield
1 3 (60.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Enablement
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) VB
2 3 (60.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) AirWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) MobileIron
3 1 (20.00%) VMware