New Relic Contract Job Trends in England

New Relic
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of New Relic products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited New Relic over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, 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 New Relic.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 487 554
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 +142
Contract jobs citing New Relic 13 41 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.12% 0.086%
As % of the Vendors category 0.099% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 22
10th Percentile £321 £459 £381
25th Percentile £344 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +5.96% -1.52%
75th Percentile £418 £641 £642
90th Percentile £469 £695 £698
UK median daily rate £403 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -32.88% +9.09% -4.76%

All Vendors
England

New Relic 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 13,130 14,554 18,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.25% 44.19% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,343 8,881 12,211
10th Percentile £275 £300 £262
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 595 579
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%
75th Percentile £46.39 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%

New Relic
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing New Relic as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for New Relic in England

New Relic
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing New Relic.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing New Relic

New Relic
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing New Relic in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for New Relic in England

New Relic
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 New Relic within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London +2 6 £425 -26.09% 10
Midlands -13 4 £360 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
West Midlands -10 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £325 -
New Relic
UK

New Relic
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) LoadRunner
2 4 (30.77%) JMeter
3 3 (23.08%) Gatling
3 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) NeoLoad
4 2 (15.38%) Vagrant
5 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Performance Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Software Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) LAMP
2 2 (15.38%) Zend Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Debian
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Test Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) API Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VirtualBox
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kibana
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) Salt
3 2 (15.38%) Icinga
3 2 (15.38%) Nagios
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) SysTrack
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) AppDynamics
1 7 (53.85%) Dynatrace
2 6 (46.15%) Splunk
3 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
4 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Zend
5 1 (7.69%) Adobe
5 1 (7.69%) Citrix
5 1 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (7.69%) PagerDuty
5 1 (7.69%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Sitecore