Application Performance Management Contract Job Trends

Application Performance Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Application Performance Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 560 640
Rank change year-on-year +9 +80 +183
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.006% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £650
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,604 32,580 45,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.42% 85.51% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,360 20,191 30,794
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,772 1,501 1,528
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.19% +45.60%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.60 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.44% +7.50% +76.44%

Application Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Performance Management in the UK

Application Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Application Performance Management
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland - 2 - -
UK excluding London - 2 - -
Work from Home +22 1 - -

Application Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks