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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 452 480
Rank change year-on-year -111 +28 +74
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 69 62 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.36% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 48 23
10th Percentile £379 £311 £321
25th Percentile £403 £325 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -38.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £644
90th Percentile £600 £569 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £383 £600
% change year-on-year +17.57% -36.21% +20.00%

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 18,990 12,995 14,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.12% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,875 8,243 9,055
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £706 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 618 656
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -51 27 £450 -7.22% 29
North of England -88 16 £509 +41.46% 7
South West -26 13 £650 +100.00% 6
Yorkshire -31 13 £519 -20.03%
South East -54 8 £369 -8.27% 1
North West -80 3 £402 +11.67% 7
East of England - 3 £354 - 2
West Midlands -65 1 £425 -20.63%
Midlands -74 1 £425 -18.27%
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 5 (7.25%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.90%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.93%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) Datadog
3 12 (17.39%) AWS
4 11 (15.94%) GitHub
5 10 (14.49%) GCP
5 10 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.59%) Power Platform
6 8 (11.59%) SaaS
7 7 (10.14%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (10.14%) Power Automate
7 7 (10.14%) PowerApps
8 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) IaaS
8 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.70%) PaaS
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.80%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.35%) Serverless
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.54%) Firewall
2 17 (24.64%) DNS
3 15 (21.74%) VPN
4 6 (8.70%) SAN
5 5 (7.25%) DHCP
5 5 (7.25%) VLAN
5 5 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (4.35%) HTTP
7 2 (2.90%) SSL
7 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.45%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.59%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) Metadata
3 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (33.33%) JMeter
2 21 (30.43%) LoadRunner
3 18 (26.09%) Gatling
4 7 (10.14%) NeoLoad
5 6 (8.70%) Chocolatey
5 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
6 5 (7.25%) GitLab
7 3 (4.35%) JIRA
8 2 (2.90%) Introscope
9 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.45%) Git
9 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.45%) Maven
9 1 (1.45%) Selenium
9 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Finance
4 16 (23.19%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Billing
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (17.39%) Performance Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Lead
3 8 (11.59%) Senior
4 6 (8.70%) Performance Tester
4 6 (8.70%) Tester
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.80%) Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Capacity Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Test Leader
8 2 (2.90%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Production Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) Middleware
3 3 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
3 3 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (2.90%) JDBC
4 2 (2.90%) JMS
4 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.90%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.45%) JSON
5 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.45%) Playwright
5 1 (1.45%) Spring
5 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Clustering
4 2 (2.90%) CMDB
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Fedwire
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Unix
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) DevOps
2 36 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 35 (50.72%) Observability
4 27 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 22 (31.88%) Agile
5 22 (31.88%) ITIL
6 18 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 17 (24.64%) Performance Engineering
8 16 (23.19%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (21.74%) Performance Testing
9 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (20.29%) AIOps
11 13 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (17.39%) Load Balancing
13 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (14.49%) ITSM
14 10 (14.49%) Microservices
15 9 (13.04%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) SQL
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 11 (15.94%) Java
4 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.90%) Groovy
7 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) Jython
7 2 (2.90%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) Cypher
8 1 (1.45%) Korn
8 1 (1.45%) Scala
8 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
1 6 (8.70%) SLA
2 2 (2.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.45%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.68%) Grafana
3 12 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.70%) Ansible
4 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (8.70%) SCCM
5 2 (2.90%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (2.90%) BMC Performance Manager
5 2 (2.90%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.90%) Perfmon
5 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.45%) Control-M
6 1 (1.45%) Kiali
6 1 (1.45%) Kibana
6 1 (1.45%) Nagios
6 1 (1.45%) SCOM
6 1 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (69.57%) Dynatrace
2 46 (66.67%) Splunk
3 16 (23.19%) New Relic
4 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.59%) Oracle
5 8 (11.59%) VMware
6 7 (10.14%) Google
6 7 (10.14%) ServiceNow
7 6 (8.70%) Moogsoft
7 6 (8.70%) Tenable
8 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.90%) BMC
9 2 (2.90%) IBM
9 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
10 1 (1.45%) CrowdStrike