Application Packaging Contracts

Application Packaging
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Packaging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Packaging over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 554 671
Rank change year-on-year +91 +117 -68
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 122 144 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.29% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 113 122
10th Percentile £300 £200 £183
25th Percentile £387 £300 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +11.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £595 £615 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £488 £313
% change year-on-year +2.77% +56.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £23.80 £21.16 £61.00
25th Percentile £31.90 £24.55 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% -28.41% +65.00%
75th Percentile - £60.00 -
90th Percentile - £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £34.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.94% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Packaging falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +66 107 £460 -2.65% 23
UK excluding London +13 71 £501 +2.77% 19
Work from Home +102 42 £425 -3.13% 3
South East +14 36 £550 - 14
London +79 35 £406 -14.02% 4
South West -4 18 £396 +44.09%
West Midlands +21 11 £425 -19.05%
Midlands +20 11 £425 -19.05%
North of England +5 3 £488 -2.50% 3
Scotland +48 2 £188 -54.55%
North West +5 2 £425 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire +13 1 £550 -
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 (13.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.46%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.46%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.61%) Azure
2 18 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (12.30%) AWS
5 9 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (7.38%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.10%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.46%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.46%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.46%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.95%) DNS
2 17 (13.93%) DHCP
3 13 (10.66%) LAN
3 13 (10.66%) NetScaler
4 11 (9.02%) SAN
4 11 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.56%) Internet
5 8 (6.56%) MPLS
5 8 (6.56%) WAN
6 7 (5.74%) Firewall
7 3 (2.46%) DKIM
7 3 (2.46%) DMARC
7 3 (2.46%) Extranet
7 3 (2.46%) NAS
7 3 (2.46%) VPN
7 3 (2.46%) Wireless
8 2 (1.64%) WLAN
9 1 (0.82%) IPv4
9 1 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (12.30%) MSI
2 6 (4.92%) Robot Framework
2 6 (4.92%) Selenium
3 4 (3.28%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.82%) AdminStudio
General
1 28 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.20%) Finance
4 8 (6.56%) Aerospace
4 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.46%) Local Government
6 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) French Language
7 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) Applications Packager
2 17 (13.93%) Analyst
3 16 (13.11%) Applications Engineer
4 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (7.38%) Applications Specialist
5 9 (7.38%) IT Analyst
5 9 (7.38%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) Desktop Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Lead
8 5 (4.10%) Senior
8 5 (4.10%) Solutions Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) IT Support
9 4 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared Application Packager
9 4 (3.28%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) ADO
2 3 (2.46%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.82%) React
3 1 (0.82%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.95%) Client/Server
2 15 (12.30%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.38%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.56%) Clustering
5 7 (5.74%) Fat Client
5 7 (5.74%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.46%) PKI
7 1 (0.82%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (69.67%) Windows
2 42 (34.43%) Windows Server
3 33 (27.05%) Linux
4 22 (18.03%) Windows 10
5 20 (16.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (10.66%) Unix
7 11 (9.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.46%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.64%) Rocky
11 1 (0.82%) Android
11 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.82%) CentOS
11 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.82%) Tizen
11 1 (0.82%) tvOS
11 1 (0.82%) VMS
11 1 (0.82%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.67%) Migration
2 21 (17.21%) Agile
2 21 (17.21%) Application Virtualisation
3 17 (13.93%) DevOps
4 16 (13.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 16 (13.11%) Server Management
5 14 (11.48%) Release Management
6 13 (10.66%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.02%) Capacity Management
8 11 (9.02%) ITIL
8 11 (9.02%) Network Management
8 11 (9.02%) Patch Management
9 10 (8.20%) Asset Management
9 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (7.38%) Change Management
10 9 (7.38%) Data Migration
10 9 (7.38%) Data Protection
10 9 (7.38%) Software Deployment
11 8 (6.56%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 63 (51.64%) PowerShell
2 21 (17.21%) VBScript
3 20 (16.39%) Python
4 5 (4.10%) SQL
5 3 (2.46%) VB
6 2 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 41 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) DV Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.84%) Degree
5 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.64%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.64%) MCSA
6 2 (1.64%) MCSE
7 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) SLA
3 2 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (40.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (32.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (13.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 16 (13.11%) XenApp
3 16 (13.11%) XenDesktop
4 13 (10.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (7.38%) Hyper-V
5 9 (7.38%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (6.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (3.28%) vSphere
8 3 (2.46%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.82%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 38 (31.15%) SCCM
2 19 (15.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (9.02%) NetBackup
4 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (6.56%) Nagios
5 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.28%) SCOM
7 3 (2.46%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.46%) VxRail
8 2 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.82%) Ansible
9 1 (0.82%) Nessus
9 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (34.43%) VMware
2 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
3 19 (15.57%) Citrix
4 17 (13.93%) NetApp
5 8 (6.56%) Hitachi
6 5 (4.10%) Avaya
7 4 (3.28%) ArcSight
8 3 (2.46%) Brocade
8 3 (2.46%) Cisco
8 3 (2.46%) Commvault
8 3 (2.46%) Dell
8 3 (2.46%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (2.46%) EMC
8 3 (2.46%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.46%) HP
8 3 (2.46%) Juniper
8 3 (2.46%) Mitel
8 3 (2.46%) MobileIron
8 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow