Application Performance Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Application Performance Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Application Performance Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.023% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - -
England median daily rate £268 £750 £481
% change year-on-year -64.27% +55.84% -1.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Application Performance Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,713 3,258 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.10% 88.29% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,030 2,900
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 124 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.55 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £26.13
Median hourly rate £22.38 £47.51 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% -12.92% +45.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.11 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.53 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Application Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Performance Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Application Performance Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Application Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Application Performance Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Application Performance Management

Application Performance Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Performance Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Berkshire - 1 £263 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £263 - 2
Application Performance Management
England

Application Performance Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk