Application Packaging Contracts

Application Packaging
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 533 673
Rank change year-on-year +64 +140 -100
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 113 170 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 129 110
10th Percentile £300 £200 £172
25th Percentile £385 £275 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +1.80% +11.33%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £572
90th Percentile £595 £613 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £420 £209
% change year-on-year +25.27% +100.96% -40.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £23.80 - £61.00
25th Percentile - £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.67% -74.50% +170.49%
75th Percentile - £21.60 -
90th Percentile - £49.11 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £16.83 -
% change year-on-year +137.67% - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Packaging over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Application Packaging over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Application Packaging in the UK

Application Packaging
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +45 96 £438 -5.41% 23
UK excluding London +13 63 £526 +25.27% 18
Work from Home +99 36 £425 -1.45% 4
London +90 33 £385 -18.52% 4
South East +22 31 £550 -5.58% 7
South West +1 16 £396 +76.11% 2
West Midlands +22 11 £425 -19.05%
Midlands +18 11 £425 -11.69%
Scotland +38 2 £188 -54.55%
North of England +14 2 £488 +30.17% 7
Yorkshire +18 1 £550 - 2
North West +5 1 £425 +13.48% 5
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 17 (15.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (1.77%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.51%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (15.04%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (10.62%) AWS
4 8 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (7.08%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.42%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.77%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.77%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.12%) DNS
2 15 (13.27%) DHCP
3 13 (11.50%) LAN
4 10 (8.85%) Firewall
4 10 (8.85%) SAN
4 10 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (7.96%) WAN
6 8 (7.08%) MPLS
6 8 (7.08%) NetScaler
7 7 (6.19%) Internet
8 4 (3.54%) IPv4
9 2 (1.77%) DKIM
9 2 (1.77%) DMARC
9 2 (1.77%) Extranet
9 2 (1.77%) NAS
9 2 (1.77%) Network Security
9 2 (1.77%) VPN
9 2 (1.77%) Wireless
9 2 (1.77%) WLAN
10 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (8.85%) MSI
2 6 (5.31%) Robot Framework
2 6 (5.31%) Selenium
3 3 (2.65%) InstallShield
General
1 29 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Finance
4 8 (7.08%) Aerospace
4 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) French Language
7 1 (0.88%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Analyst
1 19 (16.81%) Applications Packager
2 16 (14.16%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Applications Specialist
5 9 (7.96%) IT Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Architect
7 6 (5.31%) Senior
8 5 (4.42%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Market Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Market Data Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Solutions Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) ADO
2 2 (1.77%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) Client/Server
2 19 (16.81%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.08%) Clustering
4 5 (4.42%) Fat Client
4 5 (4.42%) Thin Client
4 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (66.37%) Windows
2 36 (31.86%) Windows Server
3 28 (24.78%) Linux
4 20 (17.70%) Windows 10
5 18 (15.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (10.62%) Unix
7 8 (7.08%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.65%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.88%) Android
10 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.88%) Solaris
10 1 (0.88%) Tizen
10 1 (0.88%) tvOS
10 1 (0.88%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.47%) Application Virtualisation
1 22 (19.47%) Migration
2 18 (15.93%) DevOps
3 16 (14.16%) Agile
4 15 (13.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 15 (13.27%) Server Management
5 13 (11.50%) Decision-Making
6 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (9.73%) Network Management
7 11 (9.73%) Release Management
8 10 (8.85%) Asset Management
8 10 (8.85%) Capacity Management
8 10 (8.85%) Data Protection
8 10 (8.85%) Patch Management
9 9 (7.96%) Change Management
9 9 (7.96%) Data Migration
10 8 (7.08%) Application Discovery
10 8 (7.08%) Business Transformation
10 8 (7.08%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (7.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 60 (53.10%) PowerShell
2 24 (21.24%) VBScript
3 18 (15.93%) Python
4 5 (4.42%) SQL
5 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.93%) DV Cleared
2 18 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.62%) Degree
4 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) SLA
3 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (38.05%) Active Directory
2 30 (26.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (7.96%) VMware Workstation
4 9 (7.96%) XenApp
4 9 (7.96%) XenDesktop
5 8 (7.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (7.08%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (7.08%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.77%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.88%) vCloud
8 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (28.32%) SCCM
2 16 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.85%) NetBackup
4 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (7.08%) Nagios
5 5 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.65%) Ansible
7 3 (2.65%) SCOM
8 2 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.77%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.77%) Terraform
8 2 (1.77%) VxRail
9 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (28.32%) VMware
2 29 (25.66%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.16%) NetApp
4 14 (12.39%) Citrix
5 8 (7.08%) Hitachi
6 4 (3.54%) Avaya
7 3 (2.65%) ArcSight
7 3 (2.65%) Cisco
7 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.77%) Dell
8 2 (1.77%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.77%) EMC
8 2 (1.77%) Equitrac
8 2 (1.77%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.77%) F5
8 2 (1.77%) HP
8 2 (1.77%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle
8 2 (1.77%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds