Software Packaging Job Trends in the West Midlands

Software Packaging
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Software Packaging skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 206 -
Rank change year-on-year +38 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Packaging 1 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.031% 0.15% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 1.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £37,500 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - £45,500 -
England median annual salary £38,000 £42,500 £34,841
% change year-on-year -10.59% +21.98% -25.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Software Packaging falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 450 898 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.82% 14.81% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 338 534 553
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,434
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,938 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in the West Midlands

Software Packaging
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Software Packaging.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Software Packaging

Software Packaging
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Packaging within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 1 £80,000 -
Software Packaging
England

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (100.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Catalogue
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft