The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 199 215 229
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +14
Contract jobs citing JMeter 4 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.062% 0.025% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.500% 0.304% 0.711%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £375 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -34.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £293 £275
% change year-on-year
+23.72% +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
800 657 985
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.357% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 486 739
Average daily rate £405 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JMeter
London

JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JMeter across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London JMeter Jobs Demand Trend

JMeter
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JMeter across the City of London region.

City of London JMeter Daily Rate Trend

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JMeter also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JMeter.

1 9 (69.23%) Selenium
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) Java
4 6 (46.15%) XML
5 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (38.46%) SOAP
5 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (38.46%) QA
5 5 (38.46%) Open Source
5 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
5 5 (38.46%) Hudson
6 4 (30.77%) soapUI
6 4 (30.77%) BDD
6 4 (30.77%) RESTful
6 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (30.77%) Web Services
6 4 (30.77%) JUnit
6 4 (30.77%) Linux
7 3 (23.08%) ITIL
7 3 (23.08%) HTML
7 3 (23.08%) SOA
7 3 (23.08%) Oracle
7 3 (23.08%) CSS
7 3 (23.08%) J2EE
7 3 (23.08%) TDD
7 3 (23.08%) Banking
7 3 (23.08%) Spring
7 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
7 3 (23.08%) WebDriver

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JMeter also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JMeter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (46.15%) XML
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
3 4 (30.77%) soapUI
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
4 3 (23.08%) Spring
4 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
4 3 (23.08%) Ajax
5 2 (15.38%) Grails
5 2 (15.38%) Middleware
5 2 (15.38%) DHTML
6 1 (7.692%) JMS
6 1 (7.692%) UDDI
6 1 (7.692%) JSP
6 1 (7.692%) Servlets
6 1 (7.692%) .NET
6 1 (7.692%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) CMS
2 1 (7.692%) Liferay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
1 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
1 1 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Selenium
2 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 5 (38.46%) Hudson
3 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (30.77%) JUnit
4 3 (23.08%) WebDriver
5 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
5 2 (15.38%) FitNesse
5 2 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (15.38%) NUnit
5 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (15.38%) Maven
5 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
5 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (7.692%) TestDirector
6 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
6 1 (7.692%) IntelliJ
6 1 (7.692%) Ant
6 1 (7.692%) Subversion
6 1 (7.692%) OpenSTA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Tester
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) QA Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Performance Tester
5 1 (7.692%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) QA Tester
5 1 (7.692%) Test Development Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Development Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.692%) W3C
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.692%) Statistics
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (15.38%) Android
2 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) SOA
3 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Build Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Stress Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.692%) Service Management
5 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
5 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 2 (15.38%) C#
6 1 (7.692%) Python
6 1 (7.692%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
1 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 1 (7.692%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Yahoo!