Application Packaging
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Application Packaging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Application Packaging over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 877 1076
Rank change year-on-year +69 +199 -321
Permanent jobs citing Application Packaging 81 101 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.096% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.100% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 63 73 111
10th Percentile £31,374 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,570 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,274 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £66,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Application Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Packaging.

Salary trend for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +92 74 £44,274 -11.89% 26
UK excluding London -2 61 £45,000 -2.70% 22
Work from Home +83 40 £42,500 -22.73% 11
North of England +35 23 £41,235 +9.96% 12
South East +12 22 £55,500 +32.14% 6
London +116 14 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire +88 13 £32,500 -7.14% 1
West Midlands +30 11 £47,500 -13.64%
Midlands +20 11 £47,500 -13.64%
North West -5 10 £42,754 +12.51% 11
East of England +35 3 £62,500 - 2
South West - 2 £50,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

Application Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.10%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (30.86%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.94%) SaaS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) GCP
5 2 (2.47%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.23%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) SAN
3 3 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (3.70%) VPN
3 3 (3.70%) Wireless
4 2 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.47%) DHCP
4 2 (2.47%) DNS
4 2 (2.47%) LAN
4 2 (2.47%) WAN
5 1 (1.23%) FTP
5 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.23%) Network Security
5 1 (1.23%) SMTP
5 1 (1.23%) SSL
5 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) MSI
2 5 (6.17%) AdminStudio
3 4 (4.94%) InstallShield
4 2 (2.47%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.47%) Selenium
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Aerospace
3 13 (16.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Banking
5 5 (6.17%) Finance
5 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.47%) Games
8 2 (2.47%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (24.69%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Application Integration Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Integration Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) SCCM Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Active Directory Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Applications Packager
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (4.94%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) IT Support
8 4 (4.94%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared Application Packager
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Client/Server
2 8 (9.88%) Virtual Team
3 6 (7.41%) CMDB
4 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.94%) Shadow IT
5 4 (4.94%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.70%) BYOD
6 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.47%) iPad
7 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) Wiki
8 1 (1.23%) IVR
8 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 65 (80.25%) Windows
2 25 (30.86%) Linux
3 21 (25.93%) Windows Server
4 14 (17.28%) Windows 10
5 10 (12.35%) Mac OS
6 5 (6.17%) CentOS
6 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.94%) Apple iOS
7 4 (4.94%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (32.10%) ITIL
3 25 (30.86%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 16 (19.75%) Release Management
5 16 (19.75%) Scrum
6 14 (17.28%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.05%) Service Management
8 12 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
8 12 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (14.81%) ITSM
8 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (13.58%) Technical Analysis
10 9 (11.11%) Migration
11 6 (7.41%) Application Virtualisation
12 5 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (6.17%) Incident Management
12 5 (6.17%) Problem Management
12 5 (6.17%) Roadmaps
13 4 (4.94%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.94%) C#
2 4 (4.94%) VB
3 3 (3.70%) VBScript
4 2 (2.47%) Bash
4 2 (2.47%) Python
5 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (28.40%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) Degree
5 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.94%) MCSE
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CCA
7 2 (2.47%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Master
8 1 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 31 (38.27%) Active Directory
2 19 (23.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (7.41%) vSphere
5 4 (4.94%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (53.09%) SCCM
2 22 (27.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.17%) Nessus
3 5 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.17%) Terraform
3 5 (6.17%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.17%) WSUS
4 3 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.47%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 48 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (45.68%) VMware
3 9 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.41%) Citrix
5 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.94%) Adobe
6 4 (4.94%) Autodesk
7 3 (3.70%) Apple
8 2 (2.47%) Aruba
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco
8 2 (2.47%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.47%) Splunk
9 1 (1.23%) CA
9 1 (1.23%) Netskope
9 1 (1.23%) Qualys
9 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds