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 2 February 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 434 537
Rank change year-on-year -34 +103 +75
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 80 43 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.35% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 28 10
10th Percentile £304 £288 £446
25th Percentile £306 £345 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -13.04% +8.49%
75th Percentile £480 £642 £656
90th Percentile £552 £775 £683
UK median daily rate £360 £515 £575
% change year-on-year -30.10% -10.43% +8.49%

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 15,059 12,146 16,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.89% 46.29% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,886 7,299 10,775
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £717 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 724 349 849
10th Percentile £15.08 £15.59 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £51.08 £63.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £28.21 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% -5.98% -3.69%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -14 39 £314 -3.46% 4
West Midlands - 36 £310 - 2
North of England -49 22 £431 +6.48% 1
North West -15 16 £393 +5.09% 1
London -32 12 £810 +28.32% 6
South East - 10 £306 - 2
Yorkshire -68 6 £451 -5.99%
East Midlands -21 3 £360 +10.60% 2
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 16 (20.00%) Apache
2 10 (12.50%) IIS
2 10 (12.50%) iPlanet
2 10 (12.50%) JBoss
2 10 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 10 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (8.75%) Confluence
4 6 (7.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (2.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.25%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 47 (58.75%) AWS
2 32 (40.00%) Azure
3 30 (37.50%) Datadog
4 14 (17.50%) OpenShift
5 11 (13.75%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (7.50%) SaaS
8 5 (6.25%) GitHub
8 5 (6.25%) IaaS
8 5 (6.25%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) VSAN
2 10 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.25%) HTTP
4 4 (5.00%) Firewall
4 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.75%) DNS
5 3 (3.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.00%) Git
3 10 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
4 9 (11.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.25%) LoadRunner
6 4 (5.00%) GitLab
7 3 (3.75%) JIRA
8 2 (2.50%) Selenium
8 2 (2.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.25%) Babel
9 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.25%) git-flow
9 1 (1.25%) Gradle
9 1 (1.25%) JMeter
9 1 (1.25%) Maven
9 1 (1.25%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.25%) Postman
9 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Analyst
2 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (11.25%) Monitoring Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Senior
5 4 (5.00%) Lead
5 4 (5.00%) Storage Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.50%) Electronics Engineer
7 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.50%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (2.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.50%) Service Manager
8 1 (1.25%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (1.25%) Performance Tester
8 1 (1.25%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) OAuth
1 11 (13.75%) OpenID
1 11 (13.75%) SAML
2 10 (12.50%) LDAP
2 10 (12.50%) Middleware
3 9 (11.25%) REST
4 6 (7.50%) Node.js
5 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.00%) Kafka
7 2 (2.50%) CSS
7 2 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.50%) HTML
7 2 (2.50%) JMS
7 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.25%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.25%) HTML5
8 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.25%) RESTful
8 1 (1.25%) SOAP
8 1 (1.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.50%) Derivative
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Equities
5 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (52.50%) Linux
2 24 (30.00%) Windows
3 20 (25.00%) Unix
4 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Observability
2 25 (31.25%) DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.50%) Agile
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.75%) Test Strategy
6 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (17.50%) Incident Response
6 14 (17.50%) Performance Monitoring
7 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (16.25%) Incident Management
7 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.25%) Problem Management
7 13 (16.25%) Synthetic Monitoring
8 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 12 (15.00%) Microservices
8 12 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (15.00%) Service Management
9 11 (13.75%) Analytics
9 11 (13.75%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) Groovy
3 11 (13.75%) Shell Script
4 10 (12.50%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.25%) Bash
6 5 (6.25%) PHP
7 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) Go
8 2 (2.50%) Perl
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (36.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.00%) Degree
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (16.25%) vSphere
3 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (10.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 23 (28.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (23.75%) Grafana
3 13 (16.25%) vRealize
4 12 (15.00%) VxRail
5 10 (12.50%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (12.50%) CA Wily
6 9 (11.25%) Progress Chef
6 9 (11.25%) Prometheus
7 8 (10.00%) Tivoli
8 7 (8.75%) Ansible
9 5 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (5.00%) Kibana
11 3 (3.75%) Terraform
12 2 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (1.25%) Argo
13 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
13 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (66.25%) Splunk
2 37 (46.25%) Dynatrace
3 26 (32.50%) Oracle
4 25 (31.25%) Cisco
5 24 (30.00%) IBM
6 14 (17.50%) Commvault
6 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
6 14 (17.50%) SolarWinds
7 13 (16.25%) HP
7 13 (16.25%) VMware
8 12 (15.00%) Dell
9 10 (12.50%) Broadcom
10 5 (6.25%) New Relic
11 4 (5.00%) Bloomberg
12 2 (2.50%) Charles River
12 2 (2.50%) MarketAxess
12 2 (2.50%) Tradeweb
13 1 (1.25%) Google
13 1 (1.25%) Micro Focus
13 1 (1.25%) Qualys