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 31 July 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 500 497
Rank change year-on-year -79 -3 +84
Contract jobs citing New Relic 54 10 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.036% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.077% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 29
10th Percentile £343 £363 £493
25th Percentile £360 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £486 £593
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -17.93% +4.18%
75th Percentile £541 £494 £650
90th Percentile £649 - £715
UK median daily rate £413 £488 £584
% change year-on-year -15.38% -16.49% +3.78%

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 18,626 12,961 14,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.10% 47.10% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,217 9,445
10th Percentile £313 £280 £298
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,000 626 805
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.93% -8.55% -33.97%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -41 30 £357 -26.87% 12
South West -31 11 £450 +38.46% 3
North of England - 5 £525 - 6
Yorkshire - 4 £513 - 2
Midlands -50 3 £488 -
West Midlands -59 3 £488 -
East of England - 2 £625 -
South East -64 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £525 - 4
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
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) GitHub
3 12 (22.22%) Azure
3 12 (22.22%) GCP
4 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (14.81%) Datadog
6 7 (12.96%) Serverless
7 6 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
7 6 (11.11%) dbt
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.70%) Cloudflare
11 2 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) 4G
1 2 (3.70%) 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
1 11 (20.37%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 5 (9.26%) Flink
3 5 (9.26%) Looker
3 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.56%) Redis
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JMeter
2 15 (27.78%) LoadRunner
3 14 (25.93%) Gatling
4 8 (14.81%) Jenkins
5 6 (11.11%) GitLab
6 5 (9.26%) Git
7 4 (7.41%) Eclipse
8 3 (5.56%) Xcode
9 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
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%) Mockito
10 1 (1.85%) Selenium
10 1 (1.85%) Snyk
10 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Retail
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Developer
1 12 (22.22%) Senior
2 11 (20.37%) Performance Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Quality Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) iOS Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Site Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) REST
2 12 (22.22%) RESTful
3 9 (16.67%) Spring
3 9 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (9.26%) Apache Beam
4 5 (9.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 5 (9.26%) Node.js
5 4 (7.41%) Jakarta EE
5 4 (7.41%) React
6 3 (5.56%) Next.js
6 3 (5.56%) SwiftUI
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.70%) JSON
7 2 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.70%) Playwright
8 1 (1.85%) .NET
8 1 (1.85%) HTML
8 1 (1.85%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
2 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.85%) Android
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 26 (48.15%) DevOps
3 20 (37.04%) Observability
4 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.93%) Agile
6 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (22.22%) Performance Engineering
8 11 (20.37%) AI
8 11 (20.37%) Microservices
9 10 (18.52%) Scrum
10 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 9 (16.67%) Performance Testing
10 9 (16.67%) SDLC
11 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (12.96%) E-Commerce
12 7 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (11.11%) Change Management
13 6 (11.11%) ITIL
13 6 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) SQL
2 21 (38.89%) Java
3 18 (33.33%) Python
4 10 (18.52%) Shell Script
5 7 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.11%) Scala
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
8 2 (3.70%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.85%) C#
9 1 (1.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) 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%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (37.04%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Grafana
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
5 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.56%) Bosun
7 2 (3.70%) Argo
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (62.96%) Splunk
2 21 (38.89%) Dynatrace
3 15 (27.78%) AppDynamics
4 7 (12.96%) Google
5 5 (9.26%) Oracle
6 4 (7.41%) IBM
6 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.41%) VMware
7 3 (5.56%) Checkmarx
8 2 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.85%) Confluent
9 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.85%) EMC
9 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.85%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.85%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.85%) Workday