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 22 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
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 449 532
Rank change year-on-year -72 +83 +22
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 67 38 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.061%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 10
10th Percentile - £312 £356
25th Percentile £306 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £393 £561
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% -29.95% +2.00%
75th Percentile £470 £537 £744
90th Percentile £532 £710 £786
UK median daily rate £419 £402 £561
% change year-on-year +4.17% -28.34% +6.86%

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 17,559 11,844 15,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.56% 47.44% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,232 7,532 10,055
10th Percentile £313 £280 £271
25th Percentile £413 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 940 532 1,071
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.49 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.91 £27.13 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% +12.18% -35.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.97 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.50 £24.10
% change year-on-year +33.29% +5.81% -43.29%

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 22 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 22 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 -52 25 £450 -28.00%
South East -49 15 £306 -34.77%
South West -23 11 £450 +38.46%
North of England -86 10 £470 +20.20%
Yorkshire -53 8 £497 -23.46%
Midlands -51 7 £306 -35.53%
West Midlands - 7 £306 -
North West -51 2 £404 +9.95%
East of England - 1 £327 -
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 (2.99%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (4.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) Datadog
3 19 (28.36%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) GitHub
5 8 (11.94%) SaaS
6 7 (10.45%) GCP
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.45%) IaaS
6 7 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (10.45%) PaaS
7 6 (8.96%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.99%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.34%) Firewall
2 19 (28.36%) DNS
3 15 (22.39%) VPN
4 7 (10.45%) SAN
4 7 (10.45%) VLAN
5 6 (8.96%) DHCP
5 6 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.46%) HTTP
7 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.48%) SSL
9 1 (1.49%) BGP
9 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.49%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.49%) HSRP
9 1 (1.49%) Multicast
9 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.49%) Network Security
9 1 (1.49%) OSPF
9 1 (1.49%) VRRP
9 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.96%) Power BI
3 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) JMeter
1 15 (22.39%) LoadRunner
2 14 (20.90%) Gatling
3 7 (10.45%) Chocolatey
4 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.46%) GitLab
6 4 (5.97%) Git
7 2 (2.99%) Introscope
7 2 (2.99%) JIRA
8 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.40%) Banking
4 9 (13.43%) Finance
5 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Front Office
7 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) Azure Engineer
1 11 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
1 11 (16.42%) Performance Engineer
1 11 (16.42%) Senior
2 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
2 5 (7.46%) Lead
2 5 (7.46%) Senior IT Engineer
3 4 (5.97%) Architect
3 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (5.97%) Technical Leader
4 3 (4.48%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) Performance Tester
4 3 (4.48%) Senior Performance Tester
4 3 (4.48%) Senior Tester
4 3 (4.48%) Tester
5 2 (2.99%) Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Developer
5 2 (2.99%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Production Support Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) Middleware
2 6 (8.96%) Kafka
3 5 (7.46%) JMS
3 5 (7.46%) REST
4 3 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.99%) JDBC
5 2 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.99%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.49%) .NET
6 1 (1.49%) JSON
6 1 (1.49%) Node.js
6 1 (1.49%) SOAP
6 1 (1.49%) Spring
6 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.48%) Equities
6 2 (2.99%) Clustering
6 2 (2.99%) CMDB
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Windows
2 6 (8.96%) Linux
3 4 (5.97%) Unix
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.99%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) CI/CD
1 34 (50.75%) DevOps
2 27 (40.30%) Observability
3 23 (34.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
4 16 (23.88%) ITIL
4 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.91%) Agile
5 12 (17.91%) Load Balancing
5 12 (17.91%) Performance Engineering
5 12 (17.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (16.42%) AIOps
6 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.42%) ITSM
7 9 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (13.43%) Microservices
7 9 (13.43%) Migration
8 8 (11.94%) Runbook
9 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
9 7 (10.45%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) SQL
2 16 (23.88%) Python
3 7 (10.45%) Bash
3 7 (10.45%) Java
4 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.48%) Perl
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) Jython
7 1 (1.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Kubernetes
2 24 (35.82%) Grafana
3 13 (19.40%) Terraform
4 12 (17.91%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.94%) Ansible
6 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (10.45%) SCCM
7 4 (5.97%) Kibana
8 2 (2.99%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.99%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.49%) Kiali
9 1 (1.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (71.64%) Splunk
2 47 (70.15%) Dynatrace
3 13 (19.40%) New Relic
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.45%) Tenable
5 7 (10.45%) VMware
6 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.97%) Oracle
8 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg
8 3 (4.48%) Charles River
8 3 (4.48%) Moogsoft
9 2 (2.99%) Cisco
9 2 (2.99%) IBM
9 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.49%) Meraki
10 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty