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 3 March 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 445 526
Rank change year-on-year -46 +81 +83
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 73 33 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.13% 0.045%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 23 13
10th Percentile £300 £313 £356
25th Percentile £306 £379 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £537 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +7.40% -5.66%
75th Percentile £480 £716 £600
90th Percentile £542 £775 £680
UK median daily rate £413 £537 £500
% change year-on-year -23.18% +7.40% -5.66%

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 15,931 11,677 16,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.76% 46.67% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,393 7,296 10,445
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 368 911
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.15 £53.81
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -26 32 £309 -20.97% 1
West Midlands - 32 £309 - 1
London -38 22 £538 -22.52%
South East -18 12 £306 -42.97% 2
North of England -58 10 £453 +13.82% 3
North West -35 6 £453 +19.53%
Yorkshire -62 4 £460 +3.95% 1
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 (9.59%) Confluence
2 6 (8.22%) Apache
3 5 (6.85%) IIS
3 5 (6.85%) iPlanet
3 5 (6.85%) JBoss
3 5 (6.85%) WebSphere
3 5 (6.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) AWS
2 36 (49.32%) Datadog
3 35 (47.95%) Azure
4 13 (17.81%) GCP
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (10.96%) SaaS
7 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
8 6 (8.22%) GitHub
8 6 (8.22%) IaaS
8 6 (8.22%) PaaS
9 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (1.37%) AWS KMS
13 1 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (1.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) VSAN
2 9 (12.33%) Firewall
3 8 (10.96%) DNS
4 6 (8.22%) VLAN
5 5 (6.85%) DHCP
5 5 (6.85%) Kerberos
5 5 (6.85%) SAN
5 5 (6.85%) VPN
5 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (5.48%) SNMP
7 3 (4.11%) HTTP
7 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.37%) BGP
8 1 (1.37%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.37%) HSRP
8 1 (1.37%) Network Security
8 1 (1.37%) OSPF
8 1 (1.37%) SSL
8 1 (1.37%) VRRP
8 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.44%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (6.85%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (6.85%) Chocolatey
4 5 (6.85%) GitLab
5 3 (4.11%) Gatling
5 3 (4.11%) JMeter
5 3 (4.11%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.74%) JIRA
7 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.37%) git-flow
7 1 (1.37%) Gradle
7 1 (1.37%) Maven
7 1 (1.37%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.37%) Selenium
7 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.40%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Analyst
2 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Monitoring Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Senior IT Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Storage Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Performance Tester
6 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Tester
7 2 (2.74%) Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Lead
7 2 (2.74%) Senior Tester
7 2 (2.74%) Service Manager
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Middleware
2 8 (10.96%) REST
3 7 (9.59%) Kafka
4 6 (8.22%) OAuth
4 6 (8.22%) OpenID
4 6 (8.22%) SAML
5 5 (6.85%) LDAP
6 4 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (5.48%) JMS
7 2 (2.74%) Node.js
7 2 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.74%) SOAP
8 1 (1.37%) .NET
8 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.37%) CSS
8 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.37%) HTML
8 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (13.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.96%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.48%) Equities
7 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.74%) Derivative
7 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.37%) CMDB
8 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (39.73%) Linux
2 15 (20.55%) Windows
3 11 (15.07%) Unix
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
1 25 (34.25%) Observability
2 24 (32.88%) DevOps
3 23 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (24.66%) Agile
5 14 (19.18%) Mentoring
5 14 (19.18%) Microservices
6 13 (17.81%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (13.70%) Problem Management
9 9 (12.33%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.33%) Incident Management
9 9 (12.33%) Incident Response
9 9 (12.33%) Runbook
10 8 (10.96%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (10.96%) Change Management
10 8 (10.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.96%) ITIL
11 7 (9.59%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.25%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) Java
2 13 (17.81%) SQL
3 10 (13.70%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.33%) Bash
5 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.22%) Groovy
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) Perl
8 2 (2.74%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (36.99%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 22 (30.14%) Docker
2 14 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.81%) vSphere
4 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (1.37%) Firmware
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (28.77%) Grafana
2 19 (26.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.81%) vRealize
4 12 (16.44%) VxRail
5 10 (13.70%) Ansible
6 9 (12.33%) Prometheus
7 7 (9.59%) Terraform
8 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
9 5 (6.85%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (6.85%) CA Wily
9 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (6.85%) SCCM
9 5 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (6.85%) Tivoli
10 3 (4.11%) Kibana
11 2 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (1.37%) Argo
12 1 (1.37%) Opsgenie
12 1 (1.37%) Podman
12 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (57.53%) Splunk
2 36 (49.32%) Dynatrace
3 22 (30.14%) Cisco
4 19 (26.03%) IBM
5 18 (24.66%) VMware
6 16 (21.92%) SolarWinds
7 14 (19.18%) Commvault
8 13 (17.81%) HP
8 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
9 12 (16.44%) Dell
10 11 (15.07%) Oracle
11 6 (8.22%) Bloomberg
12 5 (6.85%) Broadcom
12 5 (6.85%) Tenable
13 4 (5.48%) Charles River
14 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
15 2 (2.74%) MarketAxess
15 2 (2.74%) New Relic
15 2 (2.74%) PagerDuty
15 2 (2.74%) Tradeweb