New Relic Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

New Relic
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 September 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 New Relic.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 361 417
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 +79
Contract jobs citing New Relic 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.051% 0.046%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £327 £502 £435
25th Percentile £348 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -39.24% +3.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £371 £669 £641
90th Percentile £390 £708 £656
UK median daily rate £403 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -32.88% +7.87% -3.68%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,204 7,781 9,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.29% 43.80% 45.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,445 4,551 6,428
10th Percentile £220 £220 £206
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 586 495
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.05 £30.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -29.83% -25.60% +101.63%
75th Percentile £40.19 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
% change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%

New Relic
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing New Relic as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for New Relic in the UK excluding London

New Relic
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing New Relic.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing New Relic

New Relic
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 New Relic within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Midlands -10 4 £360 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
West Midlands -12 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £325 -
New Relic
UK

New Relic
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Scalability Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft