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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 469 506
Rank change year-on-year -98 +37 +55
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 64 49 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 16
10th Percentile £338 £312 £356
25th Percentile £402 £350 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £611
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -34.21% +16.38%
75th Percentile £519 £537 £775
90th Percentile £537 £667 -
UK median daily rate £447 £404 £611
% change year-on-year +10.78% -33.96% +22.20%

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 18,472 13,055 14,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.04% 47.29% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,697 8,262 9,548
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 624 828
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.44
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.33
90th Percentile £85.04 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +40.04% -6.85% -34.94%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -37 29 £450 -36.84% 15
South West -30 11 £450 +38.46% 1
North of England -88 10 £497 +34.99% 4
South East -66 8 £313 -33.44% 1
Yorkshire -47 7 £519 -20.03%
North West -62 3 £402 +12.29% 2
East of England - 3 £354 -
West Midlands -60 2 £419 -20.92%
Midlands -63 2 £419 -20.92%
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 2 (3.13%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (3.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) AWS
3 11 (17.19%) Datadog
4 10 (15.63%) SaaS
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
5 9 (14.06%) IaaS
5 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.06%) PaaS
6 8 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (10.94%) Power Automate
7 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
7 7 (10.94%) PowerApps
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.25%) GCP
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.38%) Firewall
2 20 (31.25%) DNS
3 18 (28.13%) VPN
4 9 (14.06%) SAN
4 9 (14.06%) VLAN
5 8 (12.50%) DHCP
5 8 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.81%) HTTP
7 3 (4.69%) SSL
8 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.56%) BGP
9 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.56%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.56%) HSRP
9 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.56%) Network Security
9 1 (1.56%) OSPF
9 1 (1.56%) SNMP
9 1 (1.56%) VRRP
9 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.94%) Power BI
3 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) JMeter
2 20 (31.25%) LoadRunner
3 17 (26.56%) Gatling
4 9 (14.06%) Chocolatey
5 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.25%) NeoLoad
6 3 (4.69%) GitLab
7 2 (3.13%) Git
7 2 (3.13%) Introscope
7 2 (3.13%) JIRA
8 1 (1.56%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Banking
4 12 (18.75%) Finance
5 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.13%) Billing
7 2 (3.13%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Azure Engineer
1 13 (20.31%) Senior
2 12 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Performance Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Performance Tester
4 8 (12.50%) Tester
5 6 (9.38%) Lead
6 5 (7.81%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior IT Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Technical Leader
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Performance Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.13%) Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Production Support Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Kafka
2 4 (6.25%) JMS
2 4 (6.25%) Middleware
2 4 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.13%) JDBC
3 2 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.56%) .NET
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
4 1 (1.56%) SOAP
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) CMDB
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Equities
4 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) DevOps
2 34 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 27 (42.19%) Observability
4 23 (35.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
5 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.00%) ITIL
7 14 (21.88%) Performance Engineering
8 13 (20.31%) ITSM
8 13 (20.31%) Load Balancing
9 12 (18.75%) AIOps
9 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (18.75%) Performance Testing
10 11 (17.19%) Migration
10 11 (17.19%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (14.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (14.06%) Microservices
11 9 (14.06%) Security Patching
12 8 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) SQL
2 14 (21.88%) Python
3 6 (9.38%) Java
4 5 (7.81%) Bash
5 3 (4.69%) Perl
5 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) Jython
7 1 (1.56%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) Korn
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) SLA
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (35.94%) Grafana
3 14 (21.88%) Terraform
4 11 (17.19%) Prometheus
5 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (14.06%) SCCM
6 6 (9.38%) Ansible
7 4 (6.25%) Kibana
8 2 (3.13%) CA Wily
8 2 (3.13%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.56%) Kiali
9 1 (1.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (71.88%) Dynatrace
2 38 (59.38%) Splunk
3 14 (21.88%) New Relic
4 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 9 (14.06%) Tenable
5 9 (14.06%) VMware
6 5 (7.81%) Moogsoft
6 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.13%) Charles River
7 2 (3.13%) Google
7 2 (3.13%) IBM
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.56%) Cisco
8 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.56%) Meraki
8 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty