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 25 February 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
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 471 538
Rank change year-on-year -76 +67 +103
Contract jobs citing New Relic 19 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.074% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 11
10th Percentile £397 £340 £513
25th Percentile £400 £438 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -15.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £663
90th Percentile £749 £751 £725
UK median daily rate £400 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -31.03% +5.45% -2.65%

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 15,855 11,928 16,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.96% 46.63% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,368 7,375 10,362
10th Percentile £304 £284 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.48% -2.79%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £518
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.87% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 355 875
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.61%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -21.21%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -47 14 £525 +7.69% 6
North of England -64 2 £456 +30.36% 2
East of England - 2 £563 -
Yorkshire - 2 £456 - 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 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) GitHub
2 8 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (31.58%) Datadog
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (21.05%) Serverless
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) GCP
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.53%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) 4G
1 1 (5.26%) 5G
1 1 (5.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Redis
2 2 (10.53%) Couchbase
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Gatling
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) JMeter
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner
3 2 (10.53%) MLflow
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (5.26%) NeoLoad
4 1 (5.26%) Snyk
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Head of Operations
4 2 (10.53%) Head of Technical Operations
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
3 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
3 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) Middleware
3 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
4 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
4 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
4 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
4 2 (10.53%) Spring
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.53%) Swagger
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) PySpark
5 1 (5.26%) SOAP
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Security
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
1 12 (63.16%) Observability
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) AI
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (21.05%) API Integration
7 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Secure Coding
7 4 (21.05%) Validation
8 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) ITIL
8 3 (15.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Grafana
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Ansible
5 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Splunk
2 4 (21.05%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (10.53%) Rollbar
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.26%) Confluent
4 1 (5.26%) Cribl.io
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce