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 12 September 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 New Relic.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 498 485
Rank change year-on-year -87 -13 +86
Contract jobs citing New Relic 54 13 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.047% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.099% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 28
10th Percentile £313 £321 £489
25th Percentile £350 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £360 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £541 £418 £641
90th Percentile £600 £469 £691
UK median daily rate £406 £403 £600
% change year-on-year +0.87% -32.88% +5.26%

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 19,344 13,085 14,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.73% 47.03% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,057 8,294 8,946
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £619 £616 £631
90th Percentile £707 £706 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,113 617 610
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.75 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%

New Relic
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing New Relic relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

New Relic job vacancy trend 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 12 September 2026.

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 12 September 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 -46 35 £363 -14.59% 25
North of England - 7 £475 - 3
South West -37 6 - - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 2
West Midlands -48 2 £550 - 2
Midlands -52 2 £550 +52.78% 3
North West - 1 £525 - 1
South East - 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 £575 - 1
New Relic
UK

New Relic
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 5 (9.26%) Apache
1 5 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) GitHub
3 18 (33.33%) GCP
4 15 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
6 6 (11.11%) dbt
7 5 (9.26%) Datadog
7 5 (9.26%) Serverless
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.70%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.70%) SaaS
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) 4G
1 4 (7.41%) 5G
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) SNMP
2 1 (1.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 9 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 5 (9.26%) Flink
4 5 (9.26%) Looker
5 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.41%) Tableau
6 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.56%) Redis
7 2 (3.70%) Big Data
8 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JMeter
2 16 (29.63%) LoadRunner
3 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
4 11 (20.37%) Gatling
5 8 (14.81%) Git
6 6 (11.11%) GitLab
7 4 (7.41%) Eclipse
8 3 (5.56%) Xcode
9 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.70%) eggPlant
9 2 (3.70%) NeoLoad
9 2 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.85%) Appium
10 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.85%) JIRA
10 1 (1.85%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.85%) Selenium
10 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Retail
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Senior
2 11 (20.37%) Performance Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Lead
5 5 (9.26%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.56%) Architect
7 3 (5.56%) iOS Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Site Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) Terraform
2 12 (22.22%) RESTful
3 11 (20.37%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (18.52%) REST
5 9 (16.67%) Kafka
6 7 (12.96%) Spring
6 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
7 6 (11.11%) Middleware
8 5 (9.26%) Apache Beam
9 4 (7.41%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (7.41%) Node.js
9 4 (7.41%) React
10 3 (5.56%) Next.js
10 3 (5.56%) SwiftUI
11 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
11 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
11 2 (3.70%) Playwright
12 1 (1.85%) Jest
12 1 (1.85%) Redux
12 1 (1.85%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) CI/CD
2 27 (50.00%) Observability
3 23 (42.59%) DevOps
4 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.93%) Performance Testing
6 12 (22.22%) Agile
6 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 12 (22.22%) Performance Engineering
7 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (18.52%) Microservices
9 9 (16.67%) AI
9 9 (16.67%) Scrum
10 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (14.81%) Test Strategy
11 7 (12.96%) E-Commerce
11 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.11%) Change Management
12 6 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 18 (33.33%) Java
3 16 (29.63%) SQL
4 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 8 (14.81%) Bash
7 6 (11.11%) Scala
7 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.56%) Go
8 3 (5.56%) Objective-C
8 3 (5.56%) Ruby
8 3 (5.56%) Swift
9 2 (3.70%) Bicep
9 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CCNP
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (57.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 14 (25.93%) Grafana
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.56%) Bosun
6 2 (3.70%) Argo
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (64.81%) Splunk
2 26 (48.15%) Dynatrace
3 10 (18.52%) AppDynamics
4 9 (16.67%) IBM
5 8 (14.81%) Google
6 5 (9.26%) Oracle
7 4 (7.41%) Databricks
7 4 (7.41%) VMware
8 3 (5.56%) Checkmarx
8 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.85%) Braze
9 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.85%) EMC
9 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.85%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.85%) Tenable
9 1 (1.85%) Workday