Application Performance Monitoring Contracts

Application Performance Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Performance Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Performance Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 577 708
Rank change year-on-year +59 +131 +135
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Monitoring 2 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.011% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.013% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £520 £355
25th Percentile £520 £550 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £540 £650 £831
90th Percentile - £680 £849
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £813
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Application Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Performance Monitoring in the UK

Application Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Performance Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Application Performance Monitoring in the UK

Application Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Performance Monitoring.

Hourly rate trend for Application Performance Monitoring in the UK

Application Performance Monitoring
Top 2 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +55 2 £530 -11.67% 8
Work from Home +38 1 - - 2

Application Performance Monitoring
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk