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 18 February 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 451 544
Rank change year-on-year -44 +93 +75
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 71 38 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.15% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.32% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 27 10
10th Percentile £300 £284 £446
25th Percentile £306 £334 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -16.52% +8.49%
75th Percentile £480 £656 £656
90th Percentile £552 £775 £683
UK median daily rate £443 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -11.50% -13.04% +8.49%

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 15,561 12,008 16,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.00% 46.52% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,166 7,316 10,432
10th Percentile £300 £278 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 339 861
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.01 £20.09 £15.43
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.35 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +13.92% -17.25%
75th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £27.33
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -17.17%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -23 34 £309 -5.07% 3
West Midlands - 34 £309 - 2
London -37 17 £625 -1.96% 6
North of England -59 13 £452 +20.40% 2
South East - 10 £306 - 3
North West -24 9 £450 +22.62% 1
Yorkshire -59 4 £460 +17.95% 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 11 (15.49%) Apache
2 7 (9.86%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) IIS
2 7 (9.86%) iPlanet
2 7 (9.86%) JBoss
2 7 (9.86%) WebSphere
2 7 (9.86%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (5.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.63%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (63.38%) AWS
2 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 33 (46.48%) Datadog
3 11 (15.49%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.45%) SaaS
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub
7 5 (7.04%) IaaS
7 5 (7.04%) PaaS
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.41%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) VSAN
2 7 (9.86%) Kerberos
3 6 (8.45%) DNS
3 6 (8.45%) Firewall
4 3 (4.23%) DHCP
4 3 (4.23%) SAN
4 3 (4.23%) SNMP
4 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) VLAN
4 3 (4.23%) VPN
4 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.90%) Git
3 7 (9.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (9.86%) CA Release Automation
3 7 (9.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.04%) GitLab
5 3 (4.23%) Chocolatey
6 2 (2.82%) JIRA
7 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.41%) Gatling
7 1 (1.41%) git-flow
7 1 (1.41%) Gradle
7 1 (1.41%) JMeter
7 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.41%) Maven
7 1 (1.41%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.41%) Selenium
7 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Front Office
6 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.41%) Law
9 1 (1.41%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Analyst
2 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (12.68%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Monitoring Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Storage Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior IT Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Service Manager
9 1 (1.41%) Delivery Manager
9 1 (1.41%) Performance Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) Middleware
2 8 (11.27%) OAuth
2 8 (11.27%) OpenID
2 8 (11.27%) SAML
3 7 (9.86%) Kafka
3 7 (9.86%) LDAP
4 6 (8.45%) REST
5 4 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (5.63%) JMS
6 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
7 1 (1.41%) CSS
7 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.41%) HTML
7 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.41%) SOAP
7 1 (1.41%) Spring
7 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.27%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.63%) Equities
4 4 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) Derivative
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.89%) Linux
2 19 (26.76%) Windows
3 15 (21.13%) Unix
4 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Observability
2 23 (32.39%) DevOps
3 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
4 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (22.54%) Agile
6 13 (18.31%) Mentoring
6 13 (18.31%) Microservices
7 12 (16.90%) Incident Response
7 12 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (15.49%) Incident Management
8 11 (15.49%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (15.49%) Problem Management
9 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.08%) Service Management
9 10 (14.08%) Synthetic Monitoring
9 10 (14.08%) Test Strategy
10 9 (12.68%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.39%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) SQL
3 12 (16.90%) Java
4 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.68%) Shell Script
6 8 (11.27%) Bash
6 8 (11.27%) Groovy
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.63%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (33.80%) Docker
2 13 (18.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (18.31%) vSphere
3 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.45%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 19 (26.76%) Grafana
1 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.31%) vRealize
3 12 (16.90%) VxRail
4 9 (12.68%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.27%) Ansible
6 7 (9.86%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (9.86%) CA Wily
6 7 (9.86%) Progress Chef
7 6 (8.45%) Tivoli
8 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (5.63%) Terraform
10 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (4.23%) SCCM
11 2 (2.82%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (1.41%) Argo
12 1 (1.41%) Kibana
12 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
12 1 (1.41%) Podman
12 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (63.38%) Splunk
2 33 (46.48%) Dynatrace
3 24 (33.80%) Cisco
4 21 (29.58%) IBM
5 17 (23.94%) Oracle
6 16 (22.54%) VMware
7 14 (19.72%) Commvault
7 14 (19.72%) SolarWinds
8 13 (18.31%) HP
8 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
9 12 (16.90%) Dell
10 7 (9.86%) Broadcom
11 6 (8.45%) Bloomberg
12 4 (5.63%) Charles River
13 3 (4.23%) Tenable
14 2 (2.82%) MarketAxess
14 2 (2.82%) Tradeweb
15 1 (1.41%) Black Duck
15 1 (1.41%) Micro Focus
15 1 (1.41%) Veracode