Application Performance Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Application Performance Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Application Performance Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 347 403
Rank change year-on-year -40 +56 +89
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Monitoring 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.047% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.054% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £414 £335 -
25th Percentile £435 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +0.50% -9.30%
75th Percentile £505 £535 -
90th Percentile £526 £539 -
UK median daily rate £800 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +55.34% +3.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Application Performance Monitoring 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Application Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Performance Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Application Performance Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Application Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Performance Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Performance Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Performance Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Performance Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Performance Monitoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England -49 1 £400 - 1
Midlands - 1 £540 - 1
North West - 1 £400 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £540 - 1
Application Performance Monitoring
UK

Application Performance Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft