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 7 March 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
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 445 527
Rank change year-on-year -69 +82 +70
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 69 34 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.13% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 24 14
10th Percentile £286 £313 £356
25th Percentile £306 £385 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £519 £477
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +8.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £464 £686 £597
90th Percentile £540 £775 £679
UK median daily rate £332 £537 £477
% change year-on-year -38.22% +12.58% -10.00%

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 16,208 12,052 16,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.51% 46.89% 42.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,564 7,555 10,521
10th Percentile £306 £289 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £631
90th Percentile £702 £725 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 390 934
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.51
Median hourly rate £24.55 £31.17 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% +24.40% -26.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.71
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -28.57%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -35 32 £309 -20.97% 1
West Midlands - 32 £309 - 1
London -42 19 £450 -35.14%
South East -23 13 £306 -34.77% 2
North of England -66 8 £453 +13.82% 5
North West -35 4 £453 +19.53%
Yorkshire -61 4 £460 +3.95% 1
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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 4 (5.80%) Apache
3 3 (4.35%) IIS
3 3 (4.35%) iPlanet
3 3 (4.35%) JBoss
3 3 (4.35%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (10.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.80%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) AWS
2 37 (53.62%) Datadog
3 35 (50.72%) Azure
4 12 (17.39%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) SaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.14%) IaaS
6 7 (10.14%) PaaS
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub
7 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (7.25%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
10 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (1.45%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.45%) OCI
12 1 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) VSAN
2 9 (13.04%) Firewall
3 8 (11.59%) DNS
4 6 (8.70%) SAN
4 6 (8.70%) VLAN
5 5 (7.25%) DHCP
5 5 (7.25%) VPN
5 5 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (5.80%) HTTP
7 3 (4.35%) Kerberos
7 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
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%) SSL
8 1 (1.45%) VRRP
8 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.49%) Git
3 6 (8.70%) Chocolatey
4 5 (7.25%) GitLab
4 5 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (4.35%) Gatling
5 3 (4.35%) JMeter
5 3 (4.35%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.90%) JIRA
7 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.45%) git-flow
7 1 (1.45%) Gradle
7 1 (1.45%) Maven
7 1 (1.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.39%) Banking
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Front Office
7 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.29%) Analyst
2 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 13 (18.84%) Senior
3 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior IT Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Monitoring Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Storage Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Performance Tester
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.35%) Tester
8 2 (2.90%) Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Lead
8 2 (2.90%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) Middleware
2 7 (10.14%) Kafka
2 7 (10.14%) REST
3 4 (5.80%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (5.80%) JMS
3 4 (5.80%) OAuth
3 4 (5.80%) OpenID
3 4 (5.80%) SAML
4 3 (4.35%) LDAP
5 2 (2.90%) Node.js
5 2 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.45%) .NET
6 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.45%) CSS
6 1 (1.45%) HTML
6 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.14%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.80%) Equities
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 27 (39.13%) Linux
2 13 (18.84%) Windows
3 9 (13.04%) Unix
4 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Observability
2 23 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 22 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (30.43%) DevOps
5 18 (26.09%) Agile
6 14 (20.29%) Mentoring
7 13 (18.84%) Microservices
8 12 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (14.49%) Problem Management
10 10 (14.49%) Runbook
11 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (13.04%) Incident Management
11 9 (13.04%) Incident Response
11 9 (13.04%) ITIL
12 8 (11.59%) Change Management
12 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.59%) ITSM
13 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) Python
2 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.49%) SQL
3 9 (13.04%) Bash
3 9 (13.04%) Java
4 5 (7.25%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.80%) Groovy
6 3 (4.35%) Perl
7 2 (2.90%) Go
7 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) Docker
2 14 (20.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (18.84%) vSphere
4 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (1.45%) Firmware
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Grafana
2 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.84%) vRealize
4 12 (17.39%) VxRail
5 10 (14.49%) Ansible
6 8 (11.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (10.14%) Terraform
8 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (8.70%) SCCM
9 4 (5.80%) Kibana
9 4 (5.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
10 3 (4.35%) CA Wily
10 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (4.35%) Tivoli
11 2 (2.90%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (1.45%) Argo
12 1 (1.45%) Opsgenie
12 1 (1.45%) Podman
12 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (56.52%) Splunk
2 34 (49.28%) Dynatrace
3 22 (31.88%) Cisco
4 19 (27.54%) VMware
5 17 (24.64%) IBM
6 16 (23.19%) SolarWinds
7 14 (20.29%) Commvault
8 12 (17.39%) Dell
8 12 (17.39%) HP
8 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
9 8 (11.59%) Oracle
10 6 (8.70%) Bloomberg
10 6 (8.70%) Tenable
11 4 (5.80%) Charles River
12 3 (4.35%) Broadcom
12 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.90%) MarketAxess
13 2 (2.90%) PagerDuty
13 2 (2.90%) Tradeweb
14 1 (1.45%) Black Duck