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 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 580 534 598
Rank change year-on-year -46 +64 +183
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.003% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £264 - £456
25th Percentile £265 £725 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £750 £481
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +55.84% -1.28%
75th Percentile £269 £775 £502
90th Percentile £270 - £512
UK excluding London median daily rate £268 - -

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 32,432 29,959 38,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.29% 88.23% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,397 18,286 25,908
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,093 972 1,488
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.21% +39.26%

Application Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Application Performance Management job vacancy trend 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 7 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 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
UK excluding London - 6 £268 - 3
England -27 4 £268 -64.27% 3
Midlands - 4 £268 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £268 - 1
Work from Home -7 2 £270 -64.00%
Scotland - 2 - -
South East - 1 £263 - 2

Application Performance Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Datadog
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks