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 15 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 489 490
Rank change year-on-year -78 +1 +90
Contract jobs citing New Relic 59 14 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.051% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 28
10th Percentile £313 £321 £489
25th Percentile £350 £344 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £360 £584
Median % change year-on-year +12.85% -38.33% +3.78%
75th Percentile £478 £418 £650
90th Percentile £574 £469 £703
UK median daily rate £413 £381 £584
% change year-on-year +8.16% -34.67% +6.14%

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 19,062 13,061 14,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.18% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,004 8,264 9,264
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 639 754
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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 15 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 15 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 -43 32 £350 -17.65% 33
South West -40 11 £450 +38.46% 1
North of England - 9 £463 - 12
Yorkshire - 8 £456 - 7
West Midlands -43 3 £488 - 1
Midlands -47 3 £488 +35.42% 3
South East -67 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £575 -
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 (8.47%) Apache
1 5 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) GitHub
3 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) GCP
4 15 (25.42%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (13.56%) Datadog
6 7 (11.86%) Serverless
7 6 (10.17%) Cloud Composer
7 6 (10.17%) dbt
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) 4G
1 2 (3.39%) 5G
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.69%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) SNMP
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
2 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
4 5 (8.47%) Flink
4 5 (8.47%) Looker
5 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.78%) Tableau
6 3 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.08%) Redis
7 2 (3.39%) Big Data
8 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (40.68%) JMeter
2 21 (35.59%) LoadRunner
3 17 (28.81%) Gatling
4 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
5 9 (15.25%) Git
6 6 (10.17%) GitLab
7 4 (6.78%) Eclipse
8 3 (5.08%) Xcode
9 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.39%) eggPlant
9 2 (3.39%) NeoLoad
9 2 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.69%) Appium
10 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.69%) JIRA
10 1 (1.69%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.69%) Mockito
10 1 (1.69%) Selenium
10 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Retail
3 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Finance
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Performance Engineer
2 12 (20.34%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Site Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Site Reliability Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) REST
2 12 (20.34%) RESTful
3 10 (16.95%) Kafka
4 9 (15.25%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (13.56%) Spring
5 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.47%) Apache Beam
6 5 (8.47%) Node.js
7 4 (6.78%) Jakarta EE
7 4 (6.78%) Middleware
7 4 (6.78%) React
8 3 (5.08%) Next.js
8 3 (5.08%) SwiftUI
9 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.39%) JSON
9 2 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.39%) Playwright
10 1 (1.69%) Loki
10 1 (1.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.76%) DevOps
3 25 (42.37%) Observability
4 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (25.42%) Performance Engineering
5 15 (25.42%) Performance Testing
6 14 (23.73%) Agile
7 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (18.64%) Microservices
9 10 (16.95%) AI
10 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (15.25%) Scrum
10 9 (15.25%) SDLC
11 8 (13.56%) Test Strategy
12 7 (11.86%) E-Commerce
12 7 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (10.17%) Change Management
13 6 (10.17%) ITIL
13 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 20 (33.90%) Java
4 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.95%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 6 (10.17%) Scala
5 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) Go
6 3 (5.08%) Objective-C
6 3 (5.08%) Ruby
6 3 (5.08%) Swift
7 2 (3.39%) Bicep
7 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CCNP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CISM
5 1 (1.69%) CISSP
5 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (55.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (32.20%) Terraform
3 15 (25.42%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Ansible
5 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.08%) Bosun
7 2 (3.39%) Argo
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (66.10%) Splunk
2 27 (45.76%) Dynatrace
3 15 (25.42%) AppDynamics
4 9 (15.25%) IBM
5 7 (11.86%) Google
6 5 (8.47%) Oracle
7 4 (6.78%) Databricks
7 4 (6.78%) VMware
8 3 (5.08%) Checkmarx
8 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.39%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.69%) Braze
10 1 (1.69%) Confluent
10 1 (1.69%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.69%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.69%) Tenable
10 1 (1.69%) Workday