Application Performance Management Contracts

Application Performance Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Application Performance Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Performance Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 691 831
Rank change year-on-year +104 +140 -127
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 3 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £426
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +18.18% +46.67%
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile - - £684
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £500
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Performance Management 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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +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 Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Performance Management in the UK

Application Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Application Performance Management in the UK

Application Performance Management
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Performance Management within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Work from Home +114 2 £340 -47.69%
England +101 1 - -
London +96 1 - -

Application Performance Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle