Dynatrace Contract Job Trends

Dynatrace
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Dynatrace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynatrace over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, 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 Dynatrace.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 456 525
Rank change year-on-year +47 +69 +90
Contract jobs citing Dynatrace 176 78 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 0.54% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 49 55
10th Percentile £306 £394 £438
25th Percentile £406 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £526 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -12.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £627 £675
90th Percentile £730 £775 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +20.59% -20.93% -2.27%

All Vendors
UK

Dynatrace 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,347 14,495 19,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.79% 45.96% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,191 8,564 12,262
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £411 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 426 851
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -19.12% +15.25%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £25.00 £33.97
% change year-on-year -14.80% -26.41% +34.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Dynatrace job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynatrace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynatrace

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynatrace over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynatrace in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynatrace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynatrace

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Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynatrace within the UK over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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 +26 161 £525 - 25
UK excluding London -1 88 £513 +20.59% 15
London +11 76 £550 +4.56% 18
Midlands +2 47 £525 -13.51% 1
Work from Home -4 41 £540 -10.00% 11
West Midlands -5 41 £535 -11.94%
North of England -42 20 £500 +17.65% 2
North West -15 15 £485 +14.12% 2
South East -21 10 £306 - 8
East of England -9 9 £550 +72.04% 1
East Midlands - 6 £401 - 1
Scotland +16 5 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -46 3 £463 +8.82%
North East -11 2 £575 +35.29%
South West - 1 £400 - 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (11.36%) WebLogic
2 18 (10.23%) Apache
3 12 (6.82%) Confluence
4 7 (3.98%) nginx
5 2 (1.14%) Mule
5 2 (1.14%) Mule ESB
5 2 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) JBoss
6 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.57%) Finacle
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 83 (47.16%) AWS
2 62 (35.23%) Azure
3 23 (13.07%) GCP
4 18 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (10.23%) Datadog
5 17 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (9.66%) SaaS
6 15 (8.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (7.95%) Serverless
8 12 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.82%) GitHub
9 11 (6.25%) OCI
10 10 (5.68%) PaaS
10 10 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.41%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) Firewall
2 7 (3.98%) DNS
3 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.84%) HTTP
4 5 (2.84%) OpenVPN
4 5 (2.84%) VPN
5 3 (1.70%) SNMP
6 1 (0.57%) 4G
6 1 (0.57%) 5G
6 1 (0.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) Redis
3 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.27%) OLTP
6 4 (2.27%) Power BI
7 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.70%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.70%) MySQL
8 2 (1.14%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.93%) GitLab
3 17 (9.66%) JIRA
4 13 (7.39%) Git
5 12 (6.82%) Bitbucket
5 12 (6.82%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.98%) JUnit
7 5 (2.84%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.27%) Gradle
8 4 (2.27%) Mockito
9 3 (1.70%) Gatling
9 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.70%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.14%) GoCD
10 2 (1.14%) Postman
10 2 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (1.14%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.14%) XCTest
General
1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.16%) Finance
3 26 (14.77%) Banking
4 19 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.11%) Retail
7 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.41%) Legal
8 4 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Local Government
10 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (10.23%) Architect
4 16 (9.09%) Consultant
5 12 (6.82%) Developer
6 11 (6.25%) Monitoring Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) Senior
8 8 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Lead
10 6 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Implementation Specialist
10 6 (3.41%) Splunk Engineer
11 5 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.84%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.84%) Subject Matter Expert
11 5 (2.84%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.27%) Oracle Developer
12 4 (2.27%) Reliability Engineer
12 4 (2.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.80%) Kafka
2 17 (9.66%) REST
3 15 (8.52%) Middleware
4 11 (6.25%) Spring
5 10 (5.68%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.11%) Node.js
7 7 (3.98%) Swagger
7 7 (3.98%) Web Services
8 6 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.84%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.84%) Keycloak
9 5 (2.84%) LDAP
9 5 (2.84%) OpenAPI
9 5 (2.84%) OpenID
9 5 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (2.27%) J2EE
10 4 (2.27%) Micronaut
10 4 (2.27%) React
10 4 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.27%) Replication
8 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.14%) Blog
9 2 (1.14%) CMDB
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.77%) Windows
2 23 (13.07%) Unix
3 22 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.55%) Observability
2 73 (41.48%) DevOps
3 64 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 41 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (19.32%) Synthetic Monitoring
7 33 (18.75%) ITIL
8 32 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
9 31 (17.61%) Incident Management
9 31 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (17.05%) Incident Response
11 29 (16.48%) Roadmaps
12 28 (15.91%) Analytics
12 28 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (15.34%) Agile
13 27 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (14.77%) Microservices
14 26 (14.77%) Proactive Management
14 26 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (14.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.86%) SQL
2 41 (23.30%) Python
3 26 (14.77%) Java
4 22 (12.50%) Bash
5 14 (7.95%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.11%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.98%) Go
8 7 (3.98%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.41%) Groovy
9 6 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.27%) ProC
11 3 (1.70%) Bicep
11 3 (1.70%) C#
11 3 (1.70%) C++
12 2 (1.14%) C
12 2 (1.14%) R
12 2 (1.14%) Rust
13 1 (0.57%) Korn
13 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (48.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (44.32%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.41%) Degree
5 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.70%) MCP
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) COBIT
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (20.45%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Squid
3 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 52 (29.55%) Terraform
3 44 (25.00%) Grafana
4 43 (24.43%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.95%) Ansible
6 8 (4.55%) Kibana
7 7 (3.98%) Istio
8 5 (2.84%) Consul
8 5 (2.84%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.27%) Rancher
10 2 (1.14%) linkerd
10 2 (1.14%) rkt
10 2 (1.14%) SCCM
11 1 (0.57%) Argo
11 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 66 (37.50%) Splunk
2 47 (26.70%) AppDynamics
3 45 (25.57%) Oracle
4 19 (10.80%) Cisco
5 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.55%) New Relic
8 7 (3.98%) HP
9 6 (3.41%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.41%) Dell
9 6 (3.41%) F5
10 5 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.84%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.27%) Informatica
11 4 (2.27%) Pega
12 3 (1.70%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (1.14%) Google
13 2 (1.14%) Snow
13 2 (1.14%) Workday