New Relic Contract Job Trends

New Relic
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 August 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 New Relic.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 533 530
Rank change year-on-year -72 -3 +77
Contract jobs citing New Relic 61 17 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.051% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 28
10th Percentile £313 £324 £489
25th Percentile £350 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £381 £584
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -34.67% +4.94%
75th Percentile £473 £479 £650
90th Percentile £571 £576 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £360 £593
% change year-on-year +26.74% -39.24% -3.27%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,423 15,637 16,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.76% 47.26% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,895 9,559 10,605
10th Percentile £313 £277 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 809 839
10th Percentile £14.58 £14.62 £13.68
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.71 £21.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +48.26% -22.22% -17.22%

New Relic
Job Vacancy Trend

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

New Relic job vacancy trend in the UK

New Relic
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

New Relic
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing New Relic over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for New Relic in the UK

New Relic
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 August 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 -75 59 £406 +12.85% 7
London -48 32 £350 -17.65% 2
UK excluding London -74 26 £456 +26.74% 6
South West -39 11 £450 +38.46% 1
Work from Home -62 10 £392 -7.88% 2
North of England - 9 £463 - 2
Yorkshire - 8 £456 - 1
Midlands -47 3 £488 +35.42%
West Midlands -49 3 £488 -
South East -73 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £525 - 1
East of England - 1 £575 -
Scotland - 1 £423 -

New Relic
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 5 (8.20%) Apache
1 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) AWS
2 19 (31.15%) GitHub
3 17 (27.87%) Azure
3 17 (27.87%) GCP
4 15 (24.59%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (13.11%) Datadog
7 7 (11.48%) Serverless
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.84%) Cloud Composer
8 6 (9.84%) dbt
9 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.28%) Cloudflare
11 2 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) 4G
1 3 (4.92%) 5G
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) SNMP
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) MongoDB
2 10 (16.39%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
4 5 (8.20%) Flink
4 5 (8.20%) Looker
4 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.56%) Tableau
6 3 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.92%) Redis
7 2 (3.28%) Big Data
7 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (39.34%) JMeter
2 21 (34.43%) LoadRunner
3 17 (27.87%) Gatling
4 15 (24.59%) Jenkins
5 9 (14.75%) Git
6 7 (11.48%) GitLab
7 4 (6.56%) Eclipse
8 3 (4.92%) Xcode
9 2 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.28%) eggPlant
9 2 (3.28%) NeoLoad
9 2 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.64%) Appium
10 1 (1.64%) JIRA
10 1 (1.64%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.64%) Mockito
10 1 (1.64%) Selenium
10 1 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Retail
3 6 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Performance Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.03%) Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) iOS Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) REST
2 12 (19.67%) RESTful
3 10 (16.39%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (16.39%) Kafka
4 8 (13.11%) Spring
4 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.20%) Apache Beam
5 5 (8.20%) Node.js
6 4 (6.56%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (6.56%) Middleware
6 4 (6.56%) React
7 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
7 3 (4.92%) Next.js
7 3 (4.92%) SwiftUI
8 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.28%) JSON
8 2 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.28%) Playwright
9 1 (1.64%) Redux
9 1 (1.64%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (72.13%) CI/CD
2 28 (45.90%) DevOps
3 26 (42.62%) Observability
4 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.59%) Agile
5 15 (24.59%) Performance Engineering
5 15 (24.59%) Performance Testing
6 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (18.03%) Microservices
8 10 (16.39%) AI
9 9 (14.75%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (14.75%) Scrum
9 9 (14.75%) SDLC
10 8 (13.11%) Test Strategy
11 7 (11.48%) E-Commerce
11 7 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (9.84%) Change Management
12 6 (9.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) SQL
3 20 (32.79%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.39%) Shell Script
5 8 (13.11%) Bash
6 6 (9.84%) Scala
6 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.92%) Go
7 3 (4.92%) Objective-C
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) Ruby
7 3 (4.92%) Swift
8 2 (3.28%) Bicep
8 2 (3.28%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CCNP
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.20%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (55.74%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (55.74%) Kubernetes
2 19 (31.15%) Terraform
3 15 (24.59%) Grafana
4 6 (9.84%) Ansible
5 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.92%) Bosun
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (67.21%) Splunk
2 28 (45.90%) Dynatrace
3 15 (24.59%) AppDynamics
4 9 (14.75%) IBM
5 7 (11.48%) Google
6 5 (8.20%) Oracle
7 4 (6.56%) Databricks
7 4 (6.56%) VMware
8 3 (4.92%) Checkmarx
8 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.64%) Braze
10 1 (1.64%) Confluent
10 1 (1.64%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.64%) Optimizely
10 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.64%) Tenable