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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 436 531
Rank change year-on-year -17 +95 +94
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 88 50 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.18% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.40% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 12
10th Percentile £305 £288 £417
25th Percentile £306 £345 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +8.11% +4.72%
75th Percentile £535 £656 £619
90th Percentile £552 £775 £681
UK median daily rate £408 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -32.06% +13.21% -

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 14,729 12,581 15,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.68% 45.98% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,617 10,216
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 688 357 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £17.08 £19.19
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.53% -38.79% +61.82%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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
Midlands +9 48 £381 +46.68% 1
West Midlands - 45 £413 - 1
North of England -55 24 £443 -11.50% 1
North West -6 18 £420 +17.98% 1
South East - 10 £306 - 2
London -20 9 £810 +27.06% 3
Yorkshire -65 6 £451 -15.85%
East Midlands -24 3 £360 +38.46%
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 24 (27.27%) Apache
2 15 (17.05%) WebLogic
3 12 (13.64%) JBoss
4 10 (11.36%) IIS
4 10 (11.36%) iPlanet
4 10 (11.36%) WebSphere
4 10 (11.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (7.95%) Confluence
6 2 (2.27%) Mule
6 2 (2.27%) Mule ESB
6 2 (2.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.14%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 54 (61.36%) AWS
2 40 (45.45%) Azure
3 30 (34.09%) Datadog
4 17 (19.32%) OpenShift
5 14 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (12.50%) GCP
7 6 (6.82%) SaaS
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.68%) GitHub
8 5 (5.68%) IaaS
8 5 (5.68%) PaaS
9 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.14%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.14%) npm
10 1 (1.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.64%) VSAN
2 10 (11.36%) Kerberos
3 5 (5.68%) HTTP
4 4 (4.55%) Firewall
4 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.41%) DNS
5 3 (3.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) Oracle Database
2 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.32%) Git
3 11 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (11.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.68%) LoadRunner
6 4 (4.55%) GitLab
6 4 (4.55%) JIRA
7 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.27%) Selenium
7 2 (2.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.14%) Gradle
8 1 (1.14%) JMeter
8 1 (1.14%) JUnit
8 1 (1.14%) Maven
8 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 39 (44.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (17.05%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (15.91%) Analyst
3 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 11 (12.50%) Monitoring Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Senior
7 5 (5.68%) Lead
8 4 (4.55%) Storage Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Performance Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Performance Test Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Service Manager
10 2 (2.27%) Splunk Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Technical Leader
11 1 (1.14%) Delivery Manager
11 1 (1.14%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) OAuth
1 11 (12.50%) OpenID
1 11 (12.50%) SAML
2 10 (11.36%) LDAP
2 10 (11.36%) Middleware
3 8 (9.09%) REST
4 6 (6.82%) Node.js
5 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) Kafka
6 4 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.41%) Spring
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
8 2 (2.27%) HTML
8 2 (2.27%) J2EE
8 2 (2.27%) JSON
8 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.27%) Web Services
8 2 (2.27%) XML
9 1 (1.14%) HTML5
9 1 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Derivative
6 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 51 (57.95%) Linux
2 33 (37.50%) Windows
3 28 (31.82%) Unix
4 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Observability
2 28 (31.82%) DevOps
3 25 (28.41%) CI/CD
4 23 (26.14%) Test Strategy
5 22 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 22 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (23.86%) Incident Management
6 21 (23.86%) Synthetic Monitoring
7 20 (22.73%) Agile
7 20 (22.73%) Service Management
8 19 (21.59%) Analytics
8 19 (21.59%) Log Analytics
8 19 (21.59%) Proactive Management
9 18 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (20.45%) Visualisation
10 15 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.09%) SQL
2 25 (28.41%) Python
3 11 (12.50%) Groovy
3 11 (12.50%) Java
3 11 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.23%) Bash
6 5 (5.68%) PHP
7 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.41%) Perl
7 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 34 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 5 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (32.95%) Docker
2 13 (14.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (14.77%) vSphere
3 11 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.09%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 25 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.45%) Grafana
3 13 (14.77%) vRealize
4 12 (13.64%) VxRail
5 10 (11.36%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (11.36%) CA Wily
5 10 (11.36%) Progress Chef
6 9 (10.23%) Prometheus
7 8 (9.09%) Tivoli
8 6 (6.82%) Ansible
9 5 (5.68%) Kibana
9 5 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (2.27%) Terraform
11 1 (1.14%) Argo
11 1 (1.14%) Opsgenie
11 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (71.59%) Splunk
2 46 (52.27%) Dynatrace
3 36 (40.91%) Oracle
4 32 (36.36%) Cisco
5 24 (27.27%) IBM
6 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
7 14 (15.91%) Commvault
7 14 (15.91%) SolarWinds
8 13 (14.77%) HP
8 13 (14.77%) VMware
9 12 (13.64%) Dell
10 10 (11.36%) Broadcom
11 5 (5.68%) New Relic
12 3 (3.41%) Bloomberg
13 2 (2.27%) MarketAxess
13 2 (2.27%) Tradeweb
14 1 (1.14%) Black Duck
14 1 (1.14%) PagerDuty
14 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 1 (1.14%) Veracode