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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 500 551
Rank change year-on-year -17 +51 +150
Contract jobs citing New Relic 14 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.087% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.100% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 18
10th Percentile £343 £464 £490
25th Percentile £358 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £613 £573
Median % change year-on-year -37.73% +6.99% -4.58%
75th Percentile £541 £675 £642
90th Percentile £775 £743 £683
UK median daily rate £400 £613 £560
% change year-on-year -34.69% +9.38% -3.45%

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 14,062 13,982 17,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.80% 44.98% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 8,394 11,640
10th Percentile £281 £300 £256
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 690 435 612
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.24 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.52% -28.25% +75.60%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +3 8 £588 -6.00% 14
Midlands -17 4 £360 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
West Midlands -17 1 - - 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 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Redis
2 3 (21.43%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Couchbase
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) MLflow
2 2 (14.29%) Vagrant
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) NeoLoad
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Technical Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 2 (14.29%) LAMP
2 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 2 (14.29%) Zend Framework
3 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) CentOS
2 2 (14.29%) Debian
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Observability
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) API Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Load Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) DataOps
5 2 (14.29%) MLOps
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Perl
5 2 (14.29%) PHP
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VirtualBox
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Grafana
2 4 (28.57%) Kibana
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Icinga
4 2 (14.29%) Nagios
4 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 2 (14.29%) Salt
4 2 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) AppDynamics
1 5 (35.71%) Dynatrace
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Rackspace
2 2 (14.29%) Rollbar
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Zend
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) PagerDuty