The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 98 92 104
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +12
Contract jobs citing JMeter 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.328% 0.126% 0.054%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.165% 0.985% 0.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+29.16% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
231 203 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 15.14% 12.76% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 93 69
Average daily rate £330 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £445 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 64
Average hourly rate £39.50 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.75% +5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.15 £31.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JMeter
South East

JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire JMeter Daily Rate Trend

JMeter
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basingstoke - 1 - -
JMeter
South East

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
4 3 (42.86%) soapUI
4 3 (42.86%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Capita
4 3 (42.86%) Web Development
4 3 (42.86%) Firebug
4 3 (42.86%) Fiddler
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) NUnit
5 2 (28.57%) C
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (28.57%) Groovy
6 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
6 1 (14.29%) HTML5
6 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) .NET
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (14.29%) IIS
6 1 (14.29%) Web Services
6 1 (14.29%) Linux
6 1 (14.29%) Python

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (42.86%) soapUI
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
2 3 (42.86%) Firebug
2 3 (42.86%) Fiddler
3 2 (28.57%) NUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) SilkPerformer
4 1 (14.29%) WATIR
4 1 (14.29%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Test Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Test Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Test Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Capita
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle