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 19 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 507 484
Rank change year-on-year -81 -23 +83
Contract jobs citing New Relic 54 12 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.043% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.091% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 29
10th Percentile £313 £321 £460
25th Percentile £350 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £360 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -40.00% +5.96%
75th Percentile £505 £418 £650
90th Percentile £600 £469 £718
UK median daily rate £406 £403 £600
% change year-on-year +0.87% -32.88% +9.09%

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 19,365 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £713 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,145 615 595
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 19 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 19 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 -49 36 £374 -12.00% 45
North of England - 7 £475 - 10
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 7
South West -31 5 - - 1
West Midlands -48 2 £550 - 2
Midlands -51 2 £550 +52.78% 5
North West - 1 £525 - 3
South East - 1 - - 11
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
Cloud Services
1 28 (51.85%) AWS
2 21 (38.89%) GitHub
3 19 (35.19%) Azure
3 19 (35.19%) GCP
4 16 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
6 6 (11.11%) dbt
7 5 (9.26%) Datadog
8 4 (7.41%) Serverless
9 3 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.70%) Cloudflare
10 2 (3.70%) SaaS
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.85%) BrowserStack
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 11 (20.37%) MongoDB
2 9 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 5 (9.26%) Flink
4 5 (9.26%) Looker
4 5 (9.26%) Tableau
5 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.41%) Redis
5 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.70%) Big Data
8 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JMeter
2 16 (29.63%) LoadRunner
3 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
4 11 (20.37%) Gatling
5 9 (16.67%) 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 12 (22.22%) 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 10 (18.52%) Performance Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Lead
5 6 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Quality Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Test Leader
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 12 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (22.22%) RESTful
3 11 (20.37%) Kafka
4 10 (18.52%) REST
5 8 (14.81%) Spring
5 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
6 6 (11.11%) Middleware
7 5 (9.26%) Apache Beam
8 4 (7.41%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (7.41%) React
9 3 (5.56%) Next.js
9 3 (5.56%) Node.js
9 3 (5.56%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
10 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.70%) Playwright
11 1 (1.85%) Jest
11 1 (1.85%) Redux
11 1 (1.85%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
1 10 (18.52%) 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 38 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) Observability
3 23 (42.59%) DevOps
4 16 (29.63%) Performance Testing
5 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 13 (24.07%) Agile
8 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (20.37%) Microservices
9 11 (20.37%) Performance Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) Scrum
11 9 (16.67%) AI
11 9 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (16.67%) Test Strategy
12 8 (14.81%) E-Commerce
13 7 (12.96%) Non-Functional Testing
13 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
14 6 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Java
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 8 (14.81%) Bash
6 6 (11.11%) Scala
6 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.56%) Go
7 3 (5.56%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.56%) Ruby
7 3 (5.56%) Swift
8 2 (3.70%) Bicep
8 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.78%) 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 32 (59.26%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (57.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.78%) Grafana
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Bosun
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Argo
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (64.81%) Splunk
2 26 (48.15%) Dynatrace
3 10 (18.52%) IBM
4 9 (16.67%) AppDynamics
5 8 (14.81%) Google
6 5 (9.26%) Databricks
6 5 (9.26%) Oracle
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