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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 455 519
Rank change year-on-year -70 +64 +51
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 69 37 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.065%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 12
10th Percentile £283 £312 £356
25th Percentile £306 £379 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £402 £452
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -11.06% -17.82%
75th Percentile £453 £574 £705
90th Percentile £517 £737 £775
UK median daily rate £400 £405 £452
% change year-on-year -1.23% -10.40% -17.82%

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 17,086 11,549 15,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.85% 47.64% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,981 7,375 9,836
10th Percentile £313 £279 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £514
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 492 1,031
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.75 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +12.39% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £54.06 £58.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £22.56
% change year-on-year +26.37% +13.03% -46.92%

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 June 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 June 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 -55 22 £450 -34.55% 5
South East -47 16 £306 -34.77% 1
Midlands -43 14 £306 -29.27%
West Midlands - 14 £306 -
South West -17 11 £450 +38.46%
North of England -84 8 £463 +17.68%
Yorkshire -61 7 £465 -28.35%
North West -53 1 £402 +2.81%
East of England - 1 £327 - 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 2 (2.90%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (2.90%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (2.90%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (4.35%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.93%) Azure
2 27 (39.13%) Datadog
3 26 (37.68%) AWS
4 12 (17.39%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) GitHub
6 8 (11.59%) SaaS
7 7 (10.14%) IaaS
7 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (10.14%) PaaS
8 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.80%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (1.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.99%) Firewall
2 18 (26.09%) DNS
3 13 (18.84%) VPN
4 7 (10.14%) SAN
4 7 (10.14%) VLAN
5 6 (8.70%) DHCP
5 6 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.25%) HTTP
6 5 (7.25%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.35%) SSL
8 2 (2.90%) VSAN
9 1 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.45%) HSRP
9 1 (1.45%) Multicast
9 1 (1.45%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.45%) OSPF
9 1 (1.45%) SNMP
9 1 (1.45%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) JMeter
1 15 (21.74%) LoadRunner
2 14 (20.29%) Gatling
3 7 (10.14%) Chocolatey
3 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.70%) GitLab
5 5 (7.25%) Git
6 3 (4.35%) JIRA
7 2 (2.90%) Introscope
8 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Banking
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Front Office
7 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Performance Engineer
1 11 (15.94%) Senior
2 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Senior IT Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Performance Tester
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Tester
6 3 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.35%) Tester
7 2 (2.90%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Service Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Middleware
2 7 (10.14%) Kafka
3 5 (7.25%) JMS
3 5 (7.25%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.90%) JDBC
5 2 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.90%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.45%) .NET
6 1 (1.45%) JSON
6 1 (1.45%) Node.js
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.14%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.35%) Equities
7 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.90%) Clustering
8 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.45%) CMDB
9 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Windows
2 10 (14.49%) Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Unix
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) CI/CD
2 36 (52.17%) DevOps
3 27 (39.13%) Observability
4 19 (27.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (24.64%) ITIL
5 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (23.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 14 (20.29%) Agile
9 13 (18.84%) Microservices
10 12 (17.39%) Performance Engineering
11 10 (14.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (14.49%) ITSM
11 10 (14.49%) Load Balancing
11 10 (14.49%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.49%) Problem Management
12 9 (13.04%) Migration
13 8 (11.59%) Change Management
13 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) Python
2 18 (26.09%) SQL
3 12 (17.39%) Bash
4 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.59%) Java
6 3 (4.35%) Perl
7 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) Jython
8 1 (1.45%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.35%) vSphere
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (44.93%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.13%) Grafana
3 14 (20.29%) Prometheus
4 12 (17.39%) Terraform
5 9 (13.04%) Ansible
6 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (10.14%) SCCM
7 4 (5.80%) Kibana
8 3 (4.35%) vRealize
9 2 (2.90%) CA Wily
9 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
9 2 (2.90%) VxRail
10 1 (1.45%) Kiali
10 1 (1.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (69.57%) Dynatrace
2 47 (68.12%) Splunk
3 13 (18.84%) New Relic
4 10 (14.49%) VMware
5 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
6 7 (10.14%) Tenable
7 5 (7.25%) Cisco
7 5 (7.25%) IBM
7 5 (7.25%) Oracle
7 5 (7.25%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.35%) Bloomberg
9 3 (4.35%) Charles River
9 3 (4.35%) Commvault
9 3 (4.35%) HP
10 2 (2.90%) Dell
10 2 (2.90%) Moogsoft
10 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.45%) Meraki
11 1 (1.45%) PagerDuty