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 November 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 463 547
Rank change year-on-year +15 +84 +62
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 74 49 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.35% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 25 16
10th Percentile £307 £305 £399
25th Percentile £326 £356 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £573 £530
Median % change year-on-year -27.95% +8.02% -3.64%
75th Percentile £537 £622 £600
90th Percentile £552 £654 £613
UK median daily rate £420 £586 £525
% change year-on-year -28.36% +11.67% -4.55%

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 13,907 13,989 17,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.81% 44.95% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,881 8,392 11,789
10th Percentile £281 £300 £257
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 690 442 619
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% -20.94% +76.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.98 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +75.35%

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 November 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 2 November 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
Midlands - 35 £515 - 2
North of England -33 33 £365 -36.24% 4
West Midlands - 32 £530 - 2
North West +1 28 £365 +2.53% 4
London -4 5 £648 +7.92% 5
Yorkshire -54 5 £470 -21.67%
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
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 24 (32.43%) Apache
2 16 (21.62%) JBoss
3 15 (20.27%) WebLogic
4 10 (13.51%) IIS
4 10 (13.51%) iPlanet
4 10 (13.51%) WebSphere
4 10 (13.51%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (5.41%) Confluence
6 2 (2.70%) Mule
6 2 (2.70%) Mule ESB
6 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
7 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) AWS
2 27 (36.49%) Azure
3 26 (35.14%) OpenShift
4 14 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (18.92%) SaaS
5 13 (17.57%) IaaS
5 13 (17.57%) PaaS
6 8 (10.81%) Datadog
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (4.05%) AWS KMS
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.05%) GCP
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub
8 3 (4.05%) Serverless
8 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) Kerberos
2 7 (9.46%) VSAN
3 5 (6.76%) HTTP
4 3 (4.05%) DHCP
4 3 (4.05%) DNS
4 3 (4.05%) SNMP
5 1 (1.35%) Firewall
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) Relational Database
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.76%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Jenkins
2 16 (21.62%) Git
3 14 (18.92%) Bitbucket Server
3 14 (18.92%) CA Release Automation
3 14 (18.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (9.46%) JIRA
5 5 (6.76%) LoadRunner
5 5 (6.76%) SonarQube
5 5 (6.76%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.70%) Selenium
7 2 (2.70%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.35%) Babel
8 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.35%) Gradle
8 1 (1.35%) JMeter
8 1 (1.35%) JUnit
8 1 (1.35%) Maven
8 1 (1.35%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 26 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Monitoring Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Administrator
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (4.05%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Performance Test Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Splunk Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) Node.js
2 10 (13.51%) AngularJS
2 10 (13.51%) LDAP
2 10 (13.51%) OAuth
2 10 (13.51%) OpenID
2 10 (13.51%) SAML
3 7 (9.46%) REST
3 7 (9.46%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.70%) CSS
5 2 (2.70%) HTML
5 2 (2.70%) J2EE
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Middleware
5 2 (2.70%) Spring
5 2 (2.70%) Web Services
5 2 (2.70%) XML
6 1 (1.35%) React
6 1 (1.35%) RESTful
6 1 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (71.62%) Linux
2 42 (56.76%) Windows
3 24 (32.43%) Unix
4 8 (10.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Observability
2 22 (29.73%) Analytics
2 22 (29.73%) Test Strategy
3 21 (28.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (28.38%) Performance Monitoring
4 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (27.03%) Synthetic Monitoring
5 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
5 19 (25.68%) DevOps
5 19 (25.68%) Incident Response
6 18 (24.32%) Log Analytics
6 18 (24.32%) Proactive Management
6 18 (24.32%) Service Management
7 17 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (22.97%) Incident Management
7 17 (22.97%) Visualisation
8 16 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
10 14 (18.92%) Agile
11 10 (13.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) SQL
2 22 (29.73%) Python
3 12 (16.22%) Groovy
4 10 (13.51%) Java
4 10 (13.51%) PHP
4 10 (13.51%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.76%) Perl
6 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 29 (39.19%) Docker
2 18 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (9.46%) vSphere
5 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.92%) Progress Chef
3 12 (16.22%) Grafana
4 10 (13.51%) CA Single Sign-On
4 10 (13.51%) CA Wily
5 9 (12.16%) Kibana
6 8 (10.81%) Tivoli
7 7 (9.46%) vRealize
7 7 (9.46%) VxRail
8 5 (6.76%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.70%) Ansible
10 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.35%) Control-M
11 1 (1.35%) Kiali
11 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.35%) Puppet
11 1 (1.35%) SCOM
11 1 (1.35%) Terraform
11 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (60.81%) Splunk
2 38 (51.35%) Oracle
3 33 (44.59%) Dynatrace
4 26 (35.14%) Cisco
5 21 (28.38%) Microsoft
6 19 (25.68%) IBM
7 10 (13.51%) Broadcom
8 8 (10.81%) Commvault
8 8 (10.81%) Dell
8 8 (10.81%) HP
8 8 (10.81%) SolarWinds
9 7 (9.46%) VMware
10 5 (6.76%) New Relic
10 5 (6.76%) Red Hat
11 4 (5.41%) Cloudera
12 1 (1.35%) Citrix
12 1 (1.35%) Micro Focus
12 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 1 (1.35%) xMatters