Software Packaging Contracts in the Midlands

Software Packaging
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 134 141 192
Rank change year-on-year +7 +51 -36
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 1 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.037% 0.52% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 3.05% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £319 £308 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £315 £300
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £356 £330 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £338 £328 £463
% change year-on-year +3.05% -29.19% +34.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands 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 392 558 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.57% 17.01% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 436 685
10th Percentile £280 £313 £360
25th Percentile £356 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £620 £592 £550
90th Percentile £720 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.70
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £46.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £47.95
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in the Midlands

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in the Midlands

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in the Midlands

Software Packaging
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 6
Software Packaging
England

Software Packaging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Distribution
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft