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 17 April 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 440 522
Rank change year-on-year -74 +82 +69
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 76 39 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.054%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.34% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 14
10th Percentile £284 £313 £356
25th Percentile £306 £391 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £485 £477
Median % change year-on-year -35.57% +1.68% -11.67%
75th Percentile £451 £683 £680
90th Percentile £539 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £322 £493 £477
% change year-on-year -34.57% +3.25% -10.00%

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 16,849 11,550 15,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.82% 47.26% 42.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,000 7,483 10,069
10th Percentile £313 £289 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.92% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 876 434 983
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.15 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +27.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.06 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.44 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.84%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -45 31 £308 -28.87%
West Midlands - 31 £308 -
London -65 19 £450 -40.00% 4
South East -42 15 £306 -34.77% 2
South West -21 10 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire -56 4 £463 -34.68% 1
North of England -82 4 £463 +17.68% 4
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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.63%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 39 (51.32%) AWS
2 38 (50.00%) Datadog
3 36 (47.37%) Azure
4 12 (15.79%) GCP
5 9 (11.84%) SaaS
6 7 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (9.21%) IaaS
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.21%) PaaS
7 5 (6.58%) GitHub
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.32%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (1.32%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.32%) OCI
11 1 (1.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 12 (15.79%) VSAN
3 11 (14.47%) DNS
4 7 (9.21%) SAN
4 7 (9.21%) VLAN
5 6 (7.89%) DHCP
5 6 (7.89%) VPN
5 6 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (6.58%) HTTP
6 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.95%) SSL
8 1 (1.32%) BGP
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.32%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.32%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.32%) Network Security
8 1 (1.32%) OSPF
8 1 (1.32%) SNMP
8 1 (1.32%) VRRP
8 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) JMeter
1 14 (18.42%) LoadRunner
2 13 (17.11%) Gatling
3 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.21%) Chocolatey
4 7 (9.21%) Git
4 7 (9.21%) GitLab
5 3 (3.95%) JIRA
6 2 (2.63%) Introscope
7 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.32%) git-flow
7 1 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Banking
4 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Finance
6 4 (5.26%) Front Office
6 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Analyst
2 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 12 (15.79%) Senior
4 10 (13.16%) Performance Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior IT Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Storage Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Monitoring Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Performance Tester
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Performance Tester
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Tester
9 3 (3.95%) Tester
10 2 (2.63%) Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Developer
10 2 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Middleware Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) Middleware
2 9 (11.84%) Kafka
3 6 (7.89%) JMS
3 6 (7.89%) REST
4 4 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.63%) JDBC
6 2 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.63%) Spring
6 2 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.32%) .NET
7 1 (1.32%) Node.js
7 1 (1.32%) OAuth
7 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.32%) OpenID
7 1 (1.32%) SAML
7 1 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (9.21%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.26%) Equities
7 2 (2.63%) Clustering
7 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.63%) Derivative
7 2 (2.63%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.32%) CMDB
8 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.58%) Linux
2 12 (15.79%) Windows
3 8 (10.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
2 30 (39.47%) DevOps
3 24 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (28.95%) Observability
5 20 (26.32%) Agile
6 16 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (19.74%) Microservices
8 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
9 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (14.47%) ITIL
10 11 (14.47%) Performance Engineering
11 10 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (13.16%) Problem Management
11 10 (13.16%) Runbook
12 9 (11.84%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (11.84%) Containerisation
12 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.84%) ITSM
12 9 (11.84%) Migration
12 9 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) Python
2 21 (27.63%) SQL
3 11 (14.47%) Bash
3 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.16%) Java
5 5 (6.58%) Perl
6 2 (2.63%) Go
6 2 (2.63%) Jython
7 1 (1.32%) Groovy
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 22 (28.95%) Docker
2 15 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.11%) vSphere
4 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 21 (27.63%) Grafana
3 13 (17.11%) vRealize
4 12 (15.79%) VxRail
5 11 (14.47%) Ansible
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.21%) SCCM
6 7 (9.21%) Terraform
7 4 (5.26%) Kibana
8 2 (2.63%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.63%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.32%) Argo
9 1 (1.32%) Kiali
9 1 (1.32%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 44 (57.89%) Dynatrace
1 44 (57.89%) Splunk
2 21 (27.63%) Cisco
3 20 (26.32%) VMware
4 16 (21.05%) IBM
4 16 (21.05%) SolarWinds
5 14 (18.42%) Commvault
6 12 (15.79%) Dell
6 12 (15.79%) HP
6 12 (15.79%) New Relic
7 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.21%) Tenable
9 6 (7.89%) Bloomberg
9 6 (7.89%) Oracle
10 4 (5.26%) Charles River
11 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.63%) MarketAxess
12 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
12 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.63%) Tradeweb