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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 442 482
Rank change year-on-year -124 +40 +71
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 67 59 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 46 20
10th Percentile £356 £311 £356
25th Percentile £402 £328 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 £611
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -39.40% +17.78%
75th Percentile £528 £536 £681
90th Percentile £538 £581 £775
UK median daily rate £449 £393 £611
% change year-on-year +14.12% -35.68% +22.20%

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 19,039 13,034 14,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.21% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,986 8,232 9,238
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £614 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,032 642 732
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.86%

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 August 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 August 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 -45 28 £450 -7.22% 4
North of England -99 13 £509 +41.46% 2
South West -31 11 £450 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -42 10 £519 -20.03%
South East -67 10 £313 -33.44% 1
North West -69 3 £402 +11.98%
East of England - 3 £354 - 1
West Midlands -58 2 £419 -21.58%
Midlands -69 2 £419 -19.47%
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 3 (4.48%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.99%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) AWS
3 15 (22.39%) Datadog
4 12 (17.91%) GitHub
5 11 (16.42%) SaaS
6 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (13.43%) GCP
8 8 (11.94%) IaaS
8 8 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (11.94%) PaaS
9 7 (10.45%) Power Automate
9 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
9 7 (10.45%) PowerApps
10 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
12 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (4.48%) Serverless
13 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.34%) Firewall
2 19 (28.36%) DNS
3 17 (25.37%) VPN
4 8 (11.94%) SAN
4 8 (11.94%) VLAN
5 7 (10.45%) DHCP
5 7 (10.45%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (7.46%) HTTP
7 3 (4.48%) SSL
8 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.49%) BGP
9 1 (1.49%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.49%) HSRP
9 1 (1.49%) Multicast
9 1 (1.49%) Network Security
9 1 (1.49%) OSPF
9 1 (1.49%) SNMP
9 1 (1.49%) VRRP
9 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Power BI
3 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) Metadata
4 2 (2.99%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) JMeter
2 23 (34.33%) LoadRunner
3 20 (29.85%) Gatling
4 8 (11.94%) Chocolatey
5 7 (10.45%) NeoLoad
6 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
7 5 (7.46%) GitLab
8 3 (4.48%) JIRA
9 2 (2.99%) Git
9 2 (2.99%) Introscope
10 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.49%) Selenium
10 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (23.88%) Banking
3 16 (23.88%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Billing
6 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Azure Engineer
1 12 (17.91%) Performance Engineer
1 12 (17.91%) Senior
2 11 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Lead
4 8 (11.94%) Performance Tester
4 8 (11.94%) Tester
5 5 (7.46%) Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Test Leader
8 2 (2.99%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Performance Consultant
8 2 (2.99%) Production Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Middleware
2 2 (2.99%) JDBC
2 2 (2.99%) JMS
2 2 (2.99%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.99%) REST
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.49%) JSON
3 1 (1.49%) Node.js
3 1 (1.49%) Playwright
3 1 (1.49%) SOAP
3 1 (1.49%) Spring
3 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.94%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Clustering
5 2 (2.99%) CMDB
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.99%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
3 3 (4.48%) 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 42 (62.69%) DevOps
2 38 (56.72%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.27%) Observability
4 25 (37.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 23 (34.33%) Agile
6 18 (26.87%) ITIL
7 17 (25.37%) Containerisation
7 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (23.88%) Performance Engineering
8 16 (23.88%) Performance Testing
9 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (20.90%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (19.40%) Load Balancing
11 12 (17.91%) AIOps
11 12 (17.91%) ITSM
12 11 (16.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (14.93%) Migration
14 9 (13.43%) Microservices
14 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (13.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) SQL
3 8 (11.94%) Java
4 6 (8.96%) Bash
5 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.48%) Perl
7 2 (2.99%) Jython
8 1 (1.49%) C#
8 1 (1.49%) Cypher
8 1 (1.49%) Groovy
8 1 (1.49%) Korn
8 1 (1.49%) Scala
8 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) SLA
2 7 (10.45%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (35.82%) Grafana
3 14 (20.90%) Terraform
4 11 (16.42%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (11.94%) SCCM
6 6 (8.96%) Ansible
7 3 (4.48%) Kibana
8 2 (2.99%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.99%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.49%) Kiali
Vendors
1 49 (73.13%) Dynatrace
2 40 (59.70%) Splunk
3 16 (23.88%) New Relic
4 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.94%) Tenable
5 8 (11.94%) VMware
6 6 (8.96%) ServiceNow
7 5 (7.46%) Google
7 5 (7.46%) Moogsoft
8 3 (4.48%) Oracle
9 2 (2.99%) IBM
9 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.49%) Cisco
10 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.49%) Meraki
10 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty