Hybrid/Remote Application Performance Management Contract Job Trends

Application Performance Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 323 316 376
Rank change year-on-year -7 +60 +170
Contract jobs citing Application Performance Management 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.009% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.010% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile - £725 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £750 £481
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +55.84% -14.44%
75th Percentile - £775 £502
90th Percentile - - £512
UK median daily rate £268 £750 £481
% change year-on-year -64.27% +55.84% -1.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,256 10,339 15,005
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.77% 89.31% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,106 6,494 10,260
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 209 360
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.98 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £28.03
Median hourly rate £42.75 £35.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -34.42% -6.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.10 £70.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Application Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Performance Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Application Performance Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Application Performance Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Performance Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Application Performance Management

Application Performance Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk