AppDynamics Contract Job Trends in the North West

AppDynamics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of AppDynamics products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AppDynamics over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, 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 AppDynamics, Inc.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing AppDynamics 22 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.90% 0.14% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.74% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £317 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% - -
75th Percentile £480 £506 -
90th Percentile £492 £596 -
England median daily rate £420 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -30.00% +4.35% +8.49%

All Vendors
North West

AppDynamics 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,267 1,006 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.57% 46.40% 47.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 550 817
10th Percentile £250 £302 £236
25th Percentile £360 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 50 85
10th Percentile £16.49 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.52 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%
75th Percentile £56.27 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.81 £52.60
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

AppDynamics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AppDynamics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AppDynamics job vacancy trend in the North West

AppDynamics
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AppDynamics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AppDynamics

AppDynamics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AppDynamics in the North West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AppDynamics in the North West

AppDynamics
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AppDynamics within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Cheshire -5 20 £368 +3.37% 1
Manchester -7 2 £416 -34.82%
AppDynamics
England

AppDynamics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (63.64%) JBoss
2 10 (45.45%) Apache
2 10 (45.45%) IIS
2 10 (45.45%) iPlanet
2 10 (45.45%) WebSphere
2 10 (45.45%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (9.09%) Mule
3 2 (9.09%) Mule ESB
3 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
4 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) OpenShift
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) IaaS
3 6 (27.27%) PaaS
3 6 (27.27%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Oracle Database
2 9 (40.91%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 13 (59.09%) Git
3 12 (54.55%) Bitbucket Server
3 12 (54.55%) CA Release Automation
4 11 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
5 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
6 2 (9.09%) JIRA
7 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.55%) JUnit
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) LDAP
1 10 (45.45%) OAuth
1 10 (45.45%) OpenID
1 10 (45.45%) SAML
2 7 (31.82%) Node.js
3 6 (27.27%) AngularJS
4 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (9.09%) J2EE
6 2 (9.09%) JSON
6 2 (9.09%) Spring
6 2 (9.09%) Web Services
6 2 (9.09%) XML
7 1 (4.55%) Kafka
7 1 (4.55%) Middleware
7 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
2 19 (86.36%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Unix
4 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (36.36%) Observability
5 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (27.27%) ETL
6 6 (27.27%) Microservices
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (22.73%) Task Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (13.64%) Agile
9 3 (13.64%) Analytics
9 3 (13.64%) Change Management
9 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
9 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
9 3 (13.64%) Runbook
9 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (9.09%) Build Automation
10 2 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Groovy
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 6 (27.27%) PHP
4 4 (18.18%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
2 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (36.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 10 (45.45%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (45.45%) CA Wily
4 8 (36.36%) Tivoli
5 6 (27.27%) Grafana
6 5 (22.73%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (13.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Oracle
2 16 (72.73%) Splunk
3 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (45.45%) Broadcom
4 10 (45.45%) IBM
5 3 (13.64%) Cloudera
5 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft