Application Packaging Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Packaging
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 411 544
Rank change year-on-year +104 +133 -97
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 37 60 79
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 53 53
10th Percentile £395 £275 £209
25th Percentile £409 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.57% +46.67%
75th Percentile £465 £500 £575
90th Percentile £497 £538 £625
UK median daily rate £460 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 £66.00
% change year-on-year +137.67% -74.50% +170.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Application Packaging
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Packaging trend for jobs with a WFH option

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Packaging.

Application Packaging daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Application Packaging over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Application Packaging daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Application Packaging.

Application Packaging hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (13.51%) Azure
4 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Internet
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
2 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MSI
General
1 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) French Language
4 1 (2.70%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Applications Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Applications Packager
3 4 (10.81%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Mac Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Application Packager
5 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.70%) Build Manager
6 1 (2.70%) MSI Packager
6 1 (2.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Server Administrator
6 1 (2.70%) Server Support Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 10 (27.03%) Linux
3 8 (21.62%) Ubuntu
4 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.70%) Android
7 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.70%) Solaris
7 1 (2.70%) Unix
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Application Discovery
1 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (16.22%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (13.51%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (10.81%) Information Security
5 3 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (8.11%) ITIL
6 2 (5.41%) Application Security
6 2 (5.41%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Migration
6 2 (5.41%) RBAC
6 2 (5.41%) Release Management
6 2 (5.41%) Time Management
7 1 (2.70%) Agile
7 1 (2.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.70%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (2.70%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (2.70%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) vCloud
3 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) SCCM
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Citrix
3 2 (5.41%) Apple
4 1 (2.70%) Avaya
4 1 (2.70%) CA
4 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) VMware