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 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 New Relic.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 478 496
Rank change year-on-year -92 +18 +98
Contract jobs citing New Relic 36 11 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.045% 0.091%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.095% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 24
10th Percentile £382 £348 £474
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -15.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £656
90th Percentile £623 - £708
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% -1.79%

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 17,318 11,635 15,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.61% 47.46% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,380 9,989
10th Percentile £313 £276 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.04% -2.24%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.50% -2.43% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 512 1,043
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.17 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.11% +14.15% -37.37%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.06 £59.50
90th Percentile £79.72 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.50
% change year-on-year +23.48% +12.00% -44.71%

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 June 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 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 -57 18 £406 -16.67% 4
South West -13 11 £450 +38.46%
North of England - 3 £463 -
Yorkshire - 3 £463 -
Midlands - 2 £425 -
East of England - 2 £625 -
West Midlands - 2 £425 -
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 3 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Shopify
2 1 (2.78%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (16.67%) Datadog
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.33%) Serverless
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.56%) GCP
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) 4G
1 1 (2.78%) 5G
1 1 (2.78%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
1 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) JMeter
2 13 (36.11%) Gatling
3 12 (33.33%) LoadRunner
4 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.11%) Git
5 4 (11.11%) GitLab
6 3 (8.33%) Eclipse
7 2 (5.56%) Gradle
7 2 (5.56%) Mockito
7 2 (5.56%) Xcode
8 1 (2.78%) Appium
8 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.78%) JIRA
8 1 (2.78%) Liquibase
8 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (2.78%) Snyk
8 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Performance Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) iOS Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead
7 1 (2.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) React Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior React Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 6 (16.67%) Spring
3 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.89%) Kafka
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 3 (8.33%) J2EE
6 3 (8.33%) Middleware
7 2 (5.56%) JSON
7 2 (5.56%) Micronaut
7 2 (5.56%) Node.js
7 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (5.56%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.56%) Swagger
7 2 (5.56%) SwiftUI
8 1 (2.78%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (2.78%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (55.56%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) Observability
5 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (22.22%) Agile
6 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) ITIL
8 5 (13.89%) AI
8 5 (13.89%) Analytics
8 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
8 5 (13.89%) Microservices
8 5 (13.89%) Performance Testing
8 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Secure Coding
9 4 (11.11%) API Integration
9 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Java
2 12 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 2 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (5.56%) Swift
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (30.56%) Terraform
3 7 (19.44%) Grafana
4 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.33%) Ansible
6 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.56%) Puppet
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) Splunk
2 18 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 13 (36.11%) AppDynamics
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) IBM
6 2 (5.56%) Checkmarx
6 2 (5.56%) Confluent
6 2 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Braze
7 1 (2.78%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.78%) Google
7 1 (2.78%) Optimizely
7 1 (2.78%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.78%) Workday