Software Packaging Contracts

Software Packaging
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 689 817
Rank change year-on-year +116 +128 -163
Contract jobs citing Software Packaging 18 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.049% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 24
10th Percentile £217 - £300
25th Percentile £220 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £328 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -32.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £450 £341 £599
90th Percentile £575 £371 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £315 £463
% change year-on-year +42.86% -31.89% +32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £21.08 £60.15 -
25th Percentile £23.80 £60.38 £17.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 £61.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +232.43% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £63.38 £19.25
90th Percentile £39.66 £64.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.66 - £18.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Software Packaging
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Packaging in the UK

Software Packaging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Packaging in the UK

Software Packaging
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Packaging over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Packaging in the UK

Software Packaging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Packaging in the UK

Software Packaging
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Packaging over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Packaging in the UK

Software Packaging
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +96 15 £273 -16.79% 14
London +101 10 £220 -42.11% 2
UK excluding London +56 8 £450 +42.86% 14
Work from Home +133 6 £450 -22.08% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £550 - 2
East of England - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 £325 - 4
Midlands +13 1 £338 +7.14% 4
North West - 1 £325 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Software 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 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
3 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DKIM
1 2 (11.11%) DMARC
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Extranet
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) NAS
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) MSI
General
1 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Advertising
2 1 (5.56%) Electronics
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Local Government
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Configuration Specialist
1 3 (16.67%) IT Support
2 2 (11.11%) Support Officer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
3 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Technician
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 4 (22.22%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 5 (27.78%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
5 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (11.11%) SDET
6 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
6 2 (11.11%) Server Management
6 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 2 (11.11%) MCSE
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) BitLocker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) SCCM
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (38.89%) WSUS
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (11.11%) SCVMM
4 2 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Avaya
2 2 (11.11%) Brocade
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Commvault
2 2 (11.11%) Dell
2 2 (11.11%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (11.11%) EMC
2 2 (11.11%) Equitrac
2 2 (11.11%) F5
2 2 (11.11%) Forcepoint
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) Juniper
2 2 (11.11%) Mitel
2 2 (11.11%) MobileIron
2 2 (11.11%) Proofpoint
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Wyse