AppDynamics Contract Job Trends in England

AppDynamics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of AppDynamics products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AppDynamics over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within AppDynamics, Inc.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 452 471
Rank change year-on-year -122 +19 +93
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 63 63 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.48% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 45 24
10th Percentile £370 £313 £304
25th Percentile £402 £339 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £403 £586
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% -31.30% +11.67%
75th Percentile £537 £534 £623
90th Percentile £600 £587 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £420 £600
% change year-on-year +7.14% -30.00% +17.07%

All Vendors
England

AppDynamics falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

AppDynamics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AppDynamics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AppDynamics job vacancy trend in England

AppDynamics
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AppDynamics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AppDynamics

AppDynamics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AppDynamics in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AppDynamics in England

AppDynamics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AppDynamics within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
London -70 28 £463 -26.00% 23
North of England -90 17 £500 +36.99% 7
Yorkshire -29 14 £519 +10.37% 2
South East - 8 £275 - 2
South West - 5 £650 - 2
East of England - 4 £381 - 2
North West -72 3 £402 +10.14% 3
AppDynamics
UK

AppDynamics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.76%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (49.21%) Azure
2 16 (25.40%) Datadog
3 14 (22.22%) AWS
4 13 (20.63%) GitHub
5 12 (19.05%) GCP
6 11 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (12.70%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
8 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 7 (11.11%) PowerApps
9 6 (9.52%) SaaS
10 5 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.35%) IaaS
11 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (6.35%) PaaS
12 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (4.76%) npm
12 3 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.57%) Firewall
2 14 (22.22%) DNS
2 14 (22.22%) VPN
3 4 (6.35%) DHCP
3 4 (6.35%) SAN
3 4 (6.35%) VLAN
3 4 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.76%) HTTP
5 1 (1.59%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Power BI
2 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) Metadata
4 2 (3.17%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) JMeter
2 14 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 12 (19.05%) Gatling
4 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.11%) NeoLoad
5 4 (6.35%) Chocolatey
6 3 (4.76%) Git
6 3 (4.76%) GitLab
6 3 (4.76%) Maven
6 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.59%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.98%) Finance
3 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (22.22%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Billing
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Lead
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Performance Tester
4 8 (12.70%) Tester
5 5 (7.94%) Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Performance Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Capacity Manager
7 3 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (4.76%) Middleware
2 3 (4.76%) Web Services
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Spring
3 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.59%) Playwright
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) RxJava
4 1 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.76%) CMDB
4 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Fedwire
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
1 9 (14.29%) Unix
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) DevOps
2 36 (57.14%) Observability
3 32 (50.79%) CI/CD
4 27 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 26 (41.27%) Agile
6 20 (31.75%) Containerisation
7 19 (30.16%) ITIL
8 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (23.81%) Performance Testing
10 14 (22.22%) AIOps
11 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (17.46%) Microservices
14 10 (15.87%) Load Balancing
14 10 (15.87%) Test Scripting
15 9 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (14.29%) ITSM
15 9 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) Java
2 13 (20.63%) Python
3 11 (17.46%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) Bash
5 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.76%) Groovy
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Cypher
8 1 (1.59%) Korn
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.94%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (47.62%) Grafana
2 28 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (9.52%) Ansible
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.35%) SCCM
6 3 (4.76%) Kibana
7 2 (3.17%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (3.17%) BMC Performance Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.59%) Control-M
8 1 (1.59%) Kiali
8 1 (1.59%) Nagios
8 1 (1.59%) SCOM
8 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 41 (65.08%) Splunk
3 9 (14.29%) Google
4 8 (12.70%) New Relic
4 8 (12.70%) ServiceNow
5 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 6 (9.52%) Moogsoft
6 6 (9.52%) Oracle
6 6 (9.52%) VMware
7 4 (6.35%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.35%) Tenable
8 3 (4.76%) Checkmarx
9 2 (3.17%) BMC
9 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.59%) CrowdStrike