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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 469 504
Rank change year-on-year -83 +35 +121
Contract jobs citing New Relic 32 17 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.080% 0.070% 0.084%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 22
10th Percentile £382 £329 £500
25th Percentile £400 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -15.43% +6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £644
90th Percentile £623 £725 £711
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -12.82% -11.36% -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 16,952 11,612 15,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.21% 47.48% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,515 9,884
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 895 458 986
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.81 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.09 £55.08
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -61 13 £400 -17.95% 12
South West -26 11 £450 +38.46%
East of England - 3 £575 -
North of England -77 2 £456 +10.61% 1
West Midlands - 2 £425 -
Yorkshire - 2 £456 -
Midlands - 2 £425 - 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Shopify
2 1 (3.13%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) GitHub
2 8 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (21.88%) Datadog
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.38%) Serverless
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) GCP
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) 4G
1 1 (3.13%) 5G
1 1 (3.13%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) JMeter
2 14 (43.75%) Gatling
3 13 (40.63%) LoadRunner
4 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.38%) GitLab
6 2 (6.25%) Git
6 2 (6.25%) Gradle
6 2 (6.25%) Mockito
7 1 (3.13%) Liquibase
7 1 (3.13%) Snyk
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Performance Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Performance Test Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Support
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
3 3 (9.38%) GraphQL
3 3 (9.38%) Middleware
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
3 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (6.25%) Micronaut
4 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Security
4 2 (6.25%) Swagger
5 1 (3.13%) Loki
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) React Native
5 1 (3.13%) Redux
5 1 (3.13%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Performance Engineering
4 11 (34.38%) Observability
5 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (21.88%) AI
6 7 (21.88%) Performance Testing
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Microservices
7 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.63%) Agile
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.63%) Secure Coding
9 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (12.50%) FinOps
9 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Java
3 8 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Terraform
3 10 (31.25%) Grafana
4 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Ansible
6 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
7 1 (3.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Splunk
2 15 (46.88%) Dynatrace
3 13 (40.63%) AppDynamics
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) Confluent
5 2 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Braze
6 1 (3.13%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Optimizely
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.13%) Workday