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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 498 486
Rank change year-on-year -60 -12 +89
Contract jobs citing New Relic 58 13 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.047% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.10% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 28
10th Percentile £313 £321 £489
25th Percentile £350 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £360 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £418 £641
90th Percentile £600 £469 £691
UK median daily rate £413 £381 £600
% change year-on-year +8.16% -36.44% +5.96%

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 19,023 12,987 14,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.56% 47.14% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 8,225 9,106
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £616 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 625 685
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
% change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%

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 28 August 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 August 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 -63 33 £374 -12.00% 16
South West -20 11 £450 +38.46% 1
North of England - 7 £475 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £413 - 2
Midlands -49 3 £488 +35.42% 2
West Midlands -52 3 £488 -
East of England - 1 £575 - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 3
South East - 1 - - 5
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 (8.62%) Apache
1 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.90%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 18 (31.03%) GCP
2 18 (31.03%) GitHub
3 14 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (12.07%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.34%) Cloud Composer
5 6 (10.34%) dbt
6 5 (8.62%) Datadog
6 5 (8.62%) Serverless
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) 4G
1 3 (5.17%) 5G
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) SNMP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) MongoDB
1 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.34%) BigQuery
3 5 (8.62%) Flink
3 5 (8.62%) Looker
4 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.90%) Tableau
5 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Redis
6 2 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) JMeter
2 21 (36.21%) LoadRunner
3 16 (27.59%) Gatling
4 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
5 8 (13.79%) Git
6 6 (10.34%) GitLab
7 4 (6.90%) Eclipse
8 3 (5.17%) Xcode
9 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.45%) eggPlant
9 2 (3.45%) NeoLoad
9 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.72%) Appium
10 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.72%) JIRA
10 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.72%) Selenium
10 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Retail
3 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Performance Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Performance Test Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Site Reliability Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 12 (20.69%) RESTful
3 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (17.24%) REST
4 9 (15.52%) Kafka
5 7 (12.07%) Spring
5 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
6 6 (10.34%) Middleware
7 5 (8.62%) Apache Beam
8 4 (6.90%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (6.90%) Node.js
8 4 (6.90%) React
9 3 (5.17%) Next.js
9 3 (5.17%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
10 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.45%) Playwright
11 1 (1.72%) Loki
11 1 (1.72%) React Native
11 1 (1.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
1 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 28 (48.28%) DevOps
3 26 (44.83%) Observability
4 17 (29.31%) Performance Engineering
4 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Performance Testing
6 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.69%) Agile
8 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (18.97%) Microservices
9 9 (15.52%) AI
9 9 (15.52%) Scrum
10 8 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (13.79%) SDLC
10 8 (13.79%) Test Strategy
11 7 (12.07%) E-Commerce
11 7 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
1 21 (36.21%) SQL
2 18 (31.03%) Java
3 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.52%) Shell Script
5 7 (12.07%) Bash
6 6 (10.34%) Scala
6 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.17%) Go
7 3 (5.17%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.17%) Ruby
7 3 (5.17%) Swift
8 2 (3.45%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.72%) C#
9 1 (1.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CCNP
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (60.34%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.14%) Grafana
3 6 (10.34%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.17%) Bosun
6 2 (3.45%) Argo
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (65.52%) Splunk
2 29 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 16 (27.59%) AppDynamics
4 9 (15.52%) IBM
5 8 (13.79%) Google
6 5 (8.62%) Oracle
7 4 (6.90%) Databricks
7 4 (6.90%) VMware
8 3 (5.17%) Checkmarx
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.72%) Braze
9 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.72%) EMC
9 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.72%) Tenable
9 1 (1.72%) Workday