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 20 September 2025, 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 482 554
Rank change year-on-year +30 +72 +37
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 69 52 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 23 17
10th Percentile £311 £303 £401
25th Percentile £328 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £534 £624 £588
90th Percentile £632 £750 £610
UK median daily rate £403 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -32.88% +20.00% -9.09%

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 13,183 14,618 18,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.46% 44.38% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,374 8,902 12,407
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £402 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 593 590
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.89 £15.62 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.79% +83.52%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.28
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

AppDynamics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AppDynamics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AppDynamics 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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
North of England -19 39 £363 -38.17% 3
North West +18 31 £360 +1.12% 2
Midlands - 22 £515 -
West Midlands - 18 £534 -
Yorkshire -32 8 £649 +8.17% 1
London +1 5 £625 +4.17% 5
East Midlands - 4 £381 -
South West - 1 £325 -
AppDynamics
UK

AppDynamics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (39.13%) Apache
2 17 (24.64%) JBoss
3 14 (20.29%) WebLogic
4 10 (14.49%) IIS
4 10 (14.49%) iPlanet
4 10 (14.49%) WebSphere
4 10 (14.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (8.70%) Tomcat
6 4 (5.80%) nginx
7 2 (2.90%) Mule
7 2 (2.90%) Mule ESB
8 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
8 1 (1.45%) Confluence
8 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) AWS
2 27 (39.13%) OpenShift
3 18 (26.09%) Azure
4 13 (18.84%) Azure Monitor
4 13 (18.84%) IaaS
4 13 (18.84%) PaaS
4 13 (18.84%) SaaS
5 8 (11.59%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (11.59%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (10.14%) AWS KMS
7 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.25%) GCP
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.80%) GitHub
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Kerberos
2 4 (5.80%) HTTP
3 3 (4.35%) DHCP
3 3 (4.35%) DNS
3 3 (4.35%) SNMP
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 10 (14.49%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.90%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (36.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (24.64%) Git
3 15 (21.74%) Bitbucket Server
3 15 (21.74%) CA Release Automation
4 14 (20.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (10.14%) JIRA
5 7 (10.14%) LoadRunner
6 6 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.70%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.35%) Gatling
7 3 (4.35%) Jaeger
7 3 (4.35%) JMeter
8 2 (2.90%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.45%) Babel
9 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.45%) Postman
9 1 (1.45%) Selenium
9 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Lead
2 10 (14.49%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Senior
4 7 (10.14%) Monitoring Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Performance Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Performance Test Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) OAuth
2 11 (15.94%) Node.js
3 10 (14.49%) AngularJS
3 10 (14.49%) LDAP
3 10 (14.49%) OpenID
3 10 (14.49%) SAML
4 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.70%) REST
6 4 (5.80%) .NET
7 3 (4.35%) Kafka
8 2 (2.90%) gRPC
8 2 (2.90%) J2EE
8 2 (2.90%) JSON
8 2 (2.90%) Middleware
8 2 (2.90%) Spring
8 2 (2.90%) Web Services
8 2 (2.90%) XML
9 1 (1.45%) Jest
9 1 (1.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (72.46%) Linux
2 41 (59.42%) Windows
3 25 (36.23%) Unix
4 10 (14.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Observability
2 28 (40.58%) CI/CD
3 27 (39.13%) DevOps
4 18 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 18 (26.09%) Test Strategy
5 17 (24.64%) Analytics
6 16 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (23.19%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (20.29%) Incident Response
7 14 (20.29%) Microservices
7 14 (20.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
8 13 (18.84%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (18.84%) Deployment Automation
8 13 (18.84%) Incident Management
8 13 (18.84%) Log Analytics
8 13 (18.84%) Proactive Management
8 13 (18.84%) Service Management
8 13 (18.84%) Visualisation
9 10 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) SQL
2 23 (33.33%) Python
3 13 (18.84%) Groovy
4 12 (17.39%) Java
5 10 (14.49%) PHP
6 9 (13.04%) Shell Script
7 6 (8.70%) Perl
8 4 (5.80%) Bash
9 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 32 (46.38%) Docker
2 19 (27.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.29%) Grafana
2 14 (20.29%) Kibana
2 14 (20.29%) Progress Chef
3 10 (14.49%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (14.49%) CA Wily
4 8 (11.59%) Tivoli
5 5 (7.25%) Control-M
5 5 (7.25%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (7.25%) Terraform
6 3 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.35%) Istio
6 3 (4.35%) Kiali
7 1 (1.45%) Ansible
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.45%) SCOM
7 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (63.77%) Splunk
2 37 (53.62%) Oracle
3 29 (42.03%) Dynatrace
4 19 (27.54%) Microsoft
5 13 (18.84%) Cisco
6 11 (15.94%) IBM
7 10 (14.49%) Broadcom
8 7 (10.14%) New Relic
9 6 (8.70%) Red Hat
10 4 (5.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (4.35%) xMatters
12 2 (2.90%) HP
13 1 (1.45%) BMC
13 1 (1.45%) Citrix
13 1 (1.45%) Dell
13 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft