Application Performance Management Contract Job Trends in England

Application Performance Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Application Performance Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 510 553
Rank change year-on-year -36 +43 +166
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.004% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £268 - £456
25th Percentile £269 £725 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £750 £481
Median % change year-on-year -64.13% +55.84% -1.28%
75th Percentile £270 £775 £502
90th Percentile £270 - £512
UK median daily rate £269 £750 £481
% change year-on-year -64.13% +55.84% -1.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Application Performance Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Application Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Performance Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Application Performance Management job vacancy trend in England

Application Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Application Performance Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Application Performance Management

Application Performance Management
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 Application Performance Management within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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 - 3 £269 -
West Midlands - 3 £269 -
Application Performance Management
UK

Application Performance Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk