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 13 October 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
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 452 481
Rank change year-on-year -122 +29 +64
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 61 60 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 44 24
10th Percentile £370 £313 £304
25th Percentile £402 £336 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £402 £586
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -31.36% +11.67%
75th Percentile £537 £535 £623
90th Percentile £602 £593 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £411 £600
% change year-on-year +9.39% -31.44% +17.07%

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 19,401 13,351 14,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.83% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,855 8,502 8,523
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £627
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,277 645 505
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £15.73
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -21.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.86 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £24.25 £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -3.00% -24.24% -24.79%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -57 28 £463 -28.57% 11
North of England -75 16 £509 +39.52% 4
Yorkshire -26 13 £519 +10.43% 1
South East - 8 £275 - 5
South West - 4 £650 - 2
East of England - 4 £381 - 1
North West -74 3 £402 +10.14% 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 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) Azure
2 16 (26.23%) Datadog
3 14 (22.95%) AWS
4 13 (21.31%) GitHub
5 12 (19.67%) GCP
6 11 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (13.11%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
8 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.48%) Power Automate
8 7 (11.48%) PowerApps
9 6 (9.84%) SaaS
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.56%) IaaS
11 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (6.56%) PaaS
12 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (4.92%) npm
12 3 (4.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) Firewall
2 14 (22.95%) DNS
2 14 (22.95%) VPN
3 4 (6.56%) DHCP
3 4 (6.56%) SAN
3 4 (6.56%) VLAN
3 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.92%) HTTP
5 1 (1.64%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Power BI
2 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.28%) Metadata
4 2 (3.28%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) JMeter
2 12 (19.67%) LoadRunner
3 10 (16.39%) Gatling
4 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.48%) NeoLoad
5 4 (6.56%) Chocolatey
6 3 (4.92%) Git
6 3 (4.92%) GitLab
6 3 (4.92%) Maven
6 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.28%) JIRA
8 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Finance
3 14 (22.95%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.28%) Billing
6 2 (3.28%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Advertising
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (18.03%) Lead
3 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Performance Tester
4 8 (13.11%) Tester
5 5 (8.20%) Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Capacity Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.92%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (4.92%) Middleware
2 3 (4.92%) Web Services
3 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Playwright
4 1 (1.64%) REST
4 1 (1.64%) RxJava
4 1 (1.64%) SOAP
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.92%) CMDB
4 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Fedwire
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
1 10 (16.39%) Unix
2 9 (14.75%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Observability
2 34 (55.74%) DevOps
3 30 (49.18%) CI/CD
4 27 (44.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 26 (42.62%) Agile
6 20 (32.79%) Containerisation
6 20 (32.79%) ITIL
7 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (24.59%) Performance Testing
9 14 (22.95%) AIOps
10 13 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (16.39%) Capacity Management
12 10 (16.39%) ITSM
12 10 (16.39%) Load Balancing
12 10 (16.39%) Microservices
12 10 (16.39%) Test Scripting
13 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Java
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 9 (14.75%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Bash
4 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.92%) Groovy
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) Cypher
7 1 (1.64%) Korn
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
7 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (49.18%) Grafana
2 25 (40.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (9.84%) Ansible
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.56%) SCCM
6 3 (4.92%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (4.92%) BMC Performance Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Kibana
6 3 (4.92%) Perfmon
7 1 (1.64%) Control-M
7 1 (1.64%) Nagios
7 1 (1.64%) SCOM
7 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (65.57%) Dynatrace
2 39 (63.93%) Splunk
3 9 (14.75%) Google
4 8 (13.11%) ServiceNow
5 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.48%) Oracle
5 7 (11.48%) VMware
6 6 (9.84%) Moogsoft
6 6 (9.84%) New Relic
7 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.56%) Tenable
8 3 (4.92%) BMC
8 3 (4.92%) Checkmarx
9 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike