Software Packaging Contracts in England

Software Packaging
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Packaging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Packaging over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 610 734
Rank change year-on-year +87 +124 -125
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 8 30 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.062% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 25
10th Percentile £314 - £300
25th Percentile £316 £308 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £328 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -29.19% +34.06%
75th Percentile £403 £341 £580
90th Percentile £431 £371 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £328 £475
% change year-on-year +52.67% -31.05% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £18.36 £60.15 -
25th Percentile £20.40 £60.38 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £61.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.30% +232.43% -
75th Percentile - £63.38 £19.25
90th Percentile - £64.05 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £61.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -61.30% +232.43% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Software Packaging is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,516 11,029 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 8,195 14,181
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 127 212
10th Percentile £22.42 £25.75 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Packaging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Packaging in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Packaging in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in England

Software Packaging
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Packaging within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +92 4 £450 +18.42% 1
North of England - 2 £325 - 2
Midlands +7 1 £338 +7.14% 7
North West - 1 £325 -
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Software Packaging
UK

Software Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DKIM
1 2 (25.00%) DMARC
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Extranet
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Local Government
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) Support Officer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Web Filtering
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) HNC
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) BitLocker
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (25.00%) SCOM
3 2 (25.00%) SCVMM
3 2 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Avaya
2 2 (25.00%) Brocade
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Commvault
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Equitrac
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Mitel
2 2 (25.00%) MobileIron
2 2 (25.00%) Proofpoint
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Wyse