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 4 May 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
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 437 515
Rank change year-on-year -75 +78 +68
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 69 38 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.33% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 13
10th Percentile £278 £312 £356
25th Percentile £306 £391 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £480 £454
Median % change year-on-year -34.90% +5.73% -14.34%
75th Percentile £453 £697 £700
90th Percentile £509 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £364 £485 £454
% change year-on-year -24.90% +6.83% -14.34%

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 16,833 11,576 15,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.78% 47.48% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,956 7,462 9,877
10th Percentile £313 £288 £262
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £713 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 468 1,003
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -48.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -40 24 £450 -40.00% 3
Midlands -57 18 £306 -29.27%
West Midlands - 18 £306 -
South East -42 15 £306 -34.77% 1
South West -24 11 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire -50 4 £463 -34.68% 1
North of England -73 4 £463 +17.68% 3
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 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.90%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.80%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (46.38%) Azure
2 30 (43.48%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) Datadog
3 12 (17.39%) GCP
4 9 (13.04%) GitHub
5 8 (11.59%) SaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.14%) IaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (10.14%) PaaS
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.09%) Firewall
2 16 (23.19%) DNS
3 11 (15.94%) VPN
4 7 (10.14%) SAN
4 7 (10.14%) VLAN
5 6 (8.70%) DHCP
5 6 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.25%) HTTP
6 5 (7.25%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.25%) VSAN
7 3 (4.35%) SSL
8 1 (1.45%) BGP
8 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.45%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.45%) Network Security
8 1 (1.45%) OSPF
8 1 (1.45%) SNMP
8 1 (1.45%) VRRP
8 1 (1.45%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) JMeter
1 15 (21.74%) LoadRunner
2 14 (20.29%) Gatling
3 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.14%) Chocolatey
4 7 (10.14%) Git
4 7 (10.14%) GitLab
5 3 (4.35%) JIRA
6 2 (2.90%) Introscope
7 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.45%) git-flow
7 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Banking
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Front Office
7 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Senior
2 11 (15.94%) Performance Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior IT Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Performance Tester
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Tester
8 3 (4.35%) Storage Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Tester
9 2 (2.90%) Architect
9 2 (2.90%) Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Service Manager
9 2 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) Middleware
2 9 (13.04%) Kafka
3 6 (8.70%) JMS
3 6 (8.70%) REST
4 4 (5.80%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.90%) JDBC
6 2 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.90%) Spring
6 2 (2.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.90%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.45%) .NET
7 1 (1.45%) Node.js
7 1 (1.45%) OAuth
7 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.45%) OpenID
7 1 (1.45%) SAML
7 1 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.14%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.80%) Equities
7 2 (2.90%) Clustering
7 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.90%) Derivative
7 2 (2.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.45%) CMDB
8 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 11 (15.94%) Windows
3 7 (10.14%) Unix
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) CI/CD
1 36 (52.17%) DevOps
2 22 (31.88%) Observability
3 20 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.19%) Agile
4 16 (23.19%) Root Cause Analysis
5 15 (21.74%) Microservices
6 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.29%) ITIL
7 13 (18.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 12 (17.39%) Performance Engineering
9 10 (14.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (14.49%) Problem Management
9 10 (14.49%) Runbook
10 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (13.04%) ITSM
10 9 (13.04%) Migration
11 8 (11.59%) Change Management
11 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.78%) Python
2 21 (30.43%) SQL
3 11 (15.94%) Bash
3 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.49%) Java
5 5 (7.25%) Perl
6 2 (2.90%) Go
6 2 (2.90%) Jython
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.70%) vSphere
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.68%) Grafana
3 12 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 11 (15.94%) Ansible
4 11 (15.94%) Terraform
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (10.14%) SCCM
6 6 (8.70%) vRealize
7 5 (7.25%) VxRail
8 4 (5.80%) Kibana
9 2 (2.90%) CA Wily
9 2 (2.90%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.45%) Argo
10 1 (1.45%) Kiali
10 1 (1.45%) Opsgenie
10 1 (1.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 45 (65.22%) Dynatrace
1 45 (65.22%) Splunk
2 13 (18.84%) New Relic
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 9 (13.04%) Cisco
4 8 (11.59%) IBM
4 8 (11.59%) SolarWinds
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.14%) Tenable
6 6 (8.70%) Bloomberg
6 6 (8.70%) Commvault
6 6 (8.70%) HP
7 5 (7.25%) Dell
7 5 (7.25%) Oracle
8 4 (5.80%) Charles River
9 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.90%) MarketAxess
10 2 (2.90%) PagerDuty
10 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.90%) Tradeweb