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Application performance monitoring contracts

UK public sector · 80 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
80
Last 12 months
Median contract
£68k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£21.6m
75 of 80 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
64
Suppliers
27

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most application performance monitoring contracts took 51% of them (41 of 80).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 17% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £68k, is 38% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • North East had the most contracts: 12, or 15% of the total.

Who buys application performance monitoring

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex3 contracts
  2. 2Highways England3 contracts
  3. 3NHS Blood and Transplant2 contracts
  4. 4London Ambulance Service NHS Trust2 contracts
  5. 5University of the Highlands and Islands2 contracts
  6. 6Student Loans Company2 contracts
  7. 7UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)2 contracts
  8. 8NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit2 contracts
  9. 9Durham County Council2 contracts
  10. 10West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Top application performance monitoring contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Softcat14 contracts
  2. 2Prosperon Networks Ltd9 contracts
  3. 3Loop1 UK Ltd7 contracts
  4. 4Phoenix Software6 contracts
  5. 5Computacenter5 contracts
  6. 6Boxxe4 contracts
  7. 7Insight4 contracts
  8. 8Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)3 contracts
  9. 9SOLARWINDS SOFTWARE UK LIMITED3 contracts
  10. 10Akhter Computers Ltd3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

15Q4 2025*24Q1 202621Q2 202620Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 72 · Wales 5 · Scotland 3

North East12North West7West Midlands7London7South West7East Midlands6East of England6Yorkshire and The Humber5South East5Wales5Scotland3UK-wide or not stated10

What is included

Tools that monitor the availability and performance of servers, networks and applications, including application performance monitoring (APM), and alert IT teams to faults.

  • SolarWinds licences and support
  • Network and server monitoring
  • Observability platforms
  • Infrastructure monitoring and management tools

What is not included

  • ITSM and service desk tools -> it.infra.it-service-management-software
  • Security monitoring, SIEM and SOC -> it.cyber.siem-security-operations-platforms
  • Asset and licence management tools -> it.infra.it-asset-management
  • Website usage analytics -> it.data.web-analytics
  • Database monitoring by DBAs -> it.data.database-software-and-support

Often bought by the same buyers