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 3 October 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
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 503 493
Rank change year-on-year -86 -10 +55
Contract jobs citing New Relic 55 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.057% 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 20
10th Percentile £313 £324 £457
25th Percentile £350 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £381 £605
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% -36.96% +8.04%
75th Percentile £488 £479 £656
90th Percentile £575 £775 £739
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £605
% change year-on-year -5.88% -29.75% +10.00%

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 19,307 13,378 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.50% 47.74% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,853 8,503 8,675
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £621 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,228 644 543
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.90 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £32.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% -21.41% -25.58%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -48 35 £363 -25.15% 50
North of England - 8 £469 - 28
Yorkshire - 7 £463 - 14
South West -34 4 - - 5
West Midlands -39 2 £550 - 7
Midlands -51 2 £550 +52.78% 12
South East - 2 - - 18
North West - 1 £525 - 8
East of England - 1 £388 - 8
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 (9.09%) Apache
1 5 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.27%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 30 (54.55%) AWS
2 22 (40.00%) Azure
2 22 (40.00%) GitHub
3 19 (34.55%) GCP
4 17 (30.91%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (9.09%) Datadog
6 5 (9.09%) dbt
7 4 (7.27%) Serverless
8 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.64%) SaaS
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) 4G
1 4 (7.27%) 5G
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (1.82%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) SNMP
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
2 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.91%) Tableau
4 5 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 5 (9.09%) Flink
4 5 (9.09%) Looker
4 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.27%) Redis
5 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.45%) Big Data
7 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) JMeter
2 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 16 (29.09%) LoadRunner
3 11 (20.00%) Gatling
4 10 (18.18%) Git
5 6 (10.91%) GitLab
6 4 (7.27%) Eclipse
7 3 (5.45%) eggPlant
7 3 (5.45%) Xcode
8 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.64%) NeoLoad
8 2 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.82%) Appium
9 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.82%) JIRA
9 1 (1.82%) Selenium
9 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (23.64%) Retail
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Banking
3 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Senior
2 9 (16.36%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) Performance Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Test Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (9.09%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Architect
7 3 (5.45%) iOS Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (5.45%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) Terraform
2 13 (23.64%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (23.64%) Kafka
3 12 (21.82%) RESTful
4 10 (18.18%) REST
5 9 (16.36%) Spring
5 9 (16.36%) Spring Boot
6 7 (12.73%) Middleware
7 5 (9.09%) Apache Beam
8 4 (7.27%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (7.27%) React
9 3 (5.45%) Next.js
9 3 (5.45%) Node.js
9 3 (5.45%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
10 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.64%) Playwright
11 1 (1.82%) Loki
11 1 (1.82%) Redux
11 1 (1.82%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.64%) Windows
5 1 (1.82%) Android
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) CI/CD
2 29 (52.73%) Observability
3 22 (40.00%) DevOps
4 17 (30.91%) Performance Testing
5 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 14 (25.45%) Agile
8 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.00%) Microservices
9 10 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
9 10 (18.18%) Scrum
9 10 (18.18%) Test Strategy
10 9 (16.36%) AI
10 9 (16.36%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (14.55%) E-Commerce
11 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.73%) Non-Functional Testing
12 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (10.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Java
1 20 (36.36%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) SQL
3 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) Shell Script
5 8 (14.55%) Bash
6 6 (10.91%) Scala
6 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.45%) Go
7 3 (5.45%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.45%) Ruby
7 3 (5.45%) Swift
8 2 (3.64%) Bicep
8 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.27%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (58.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (29.09%) Grafana
3 7 (12.73%) Ansible
4 4 (7.27%) Bosun
4 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.64%) Argo
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (65.45%) Splunk
2 26 (47.27%) Dynatrace
3 11 (20.00%) IBM
4 9 (16.36%) AppDynamics
5 7 (12.73%) Google
6 6 (10.91%) Databricks
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
7 4 (7.27%) Oracle
7 4 (7.27%) VMware
8 3 (5.45%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.82%) Braze
9 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.82%) EMC
9 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.82%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.82%) Tenable