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 17 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 487 520
Rank change year-on-year -96 +33 +75
Contract jobs citing New Relic 37 12 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.083% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.093% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 28
10th Percentile £345 £397 £489
25th Percentile £380 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £488 £584
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -16.49% +6.14%
75th Percentile £498 £494 £656
90th Percentile £631 - £716
UK median daily rate £418 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -14.31% -15.22% +2.45%

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 18,373 12,914 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.47% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,631 8,167 9,918
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 611 954
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.50 £15.03
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%

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 17 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 17 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 -71 18 £374 -23.28% 12
South West -32 11 £450 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 1
North of England - 3 £463 - 1
Midlands -56 2 £425 -
West Midlands -58 2 £425 -
East of England - 2 £625 -
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 4 (10.81%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Datadog
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (8.11%) dbt
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) 4G
1 2 (5.41%) 5G
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) IPFIX
2 1 (2.70%) LTE
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) SNMP
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.41%) Flink
5 2 (5.41%) Looker
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) JMeter
2 13 (35.14%) Gatling
2 13 (35.14%) LoadRunner
3 5 (13.51%) Git
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) Eclipse
5 3 (8.11%) Xcode
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
7 1 (2.70%) Appium
7 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.70%) Mockito
7 1 (2.70%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.70%) Snyk
7 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Retail
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Performance Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) iOS Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.70%) Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Junior
5 1 (2.70%) Junior Tester
5 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) QA Tester
5 1 (2.70%) Security Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) REST
2 9 (24.32%) RESTful
3 6 (16.22%) Spring
3 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
4 4 (10.81%) J2EE
5 3 (8.11%) Node.js
5 3 (8.11%) SwiftUI
6 2 (5.41%) Apache Beam
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
6 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.70%) ADO
7 1 (2.70%) CSS
7 1 (2.70%) Middleware
7 1 (2.70%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.70%) Web Services
7 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) Performance Engineering
4 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.03%) Agile
6 9 (24.32%) Observability
7 7 (18.92%) ITIL
7 7 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (16.22%) Microservices
8 6 (16.22%) Scrum
8 6 (16.22%) SDLC
9 5 (13.51%) AI
9 5 (13.51%) Change Management
9 5 (13.51%) E-Commerce
9 5 (13.51%) Kanban
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.81%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) Java
3 10 (27.03%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.11%) Objective-C
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
5 3 (8.11%) Scala
5 3 (8.11%) Swift
5 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) CCNP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CISM
3 1 (2.70%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (24.32%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Argo
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (78.38%) Splunk
2 19 (51.35%) Dynatrace
3 14 (37.84%) AppDynamics
4 5 (13.51%) Oracle
5 4 (10.81%) Google
5 4 (10.81%) IBM
6 3 (8.11%) Checkmarx
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.41%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.70%) Confluent
8 1 (2.70%) Cribl.io
8 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.70%) Optimizely
8 1 (2.70%) PagerDuty
8 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.70%) Tenable
8 1 (2.70%) Workday