The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 372 389 426
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +37
Contract jobs citing JMeter 20 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.087% 0.090% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.719% 0.872% 0.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 22
Average daily rate £346 £500 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.75% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £340 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £650 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £300 £390
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2782 2751 3667
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.06% 10.33% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2064 1883 2550
Average daily rate £405 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 25
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +13.49%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.57 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.00 £44.50 £69.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
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England

JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London JMeter Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

London JMeter Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JMeter across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London JMeter Daily Rate Histogram

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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 London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +3 2 - - 3
Wembley - - - -
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JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 28 (52.83%) Java
2 24 (45.28%) SQL
3 23 (43.40%) Selenium
4 22 (41.51%) QA
5 21 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
6 20 (37.74%) LoadRunner
6 20 (37.74%) Performance Testing
6 20 (37.74%) BDD
7 18 (33.96%) JUnit
8 16 (30.19%) Hudson
9 15 (28.30%) Cucumber
9 15 (28.30%) TDD
9 15 (28.30%) Finance
10 14 (26.42%) J2EE
11 13 (24.53%) Linux
11 13 (24.53%) Test Scripting
12 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
12 12 (22.64%) soapUI
12 12 (22.64%) WebDriver
12 12 (22.64%) XML
13 11 (20.75%) Web Services
13 11 (20.75%) Open Source
13 11 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
14 10 (18.87%) SOA
14 10 (18.87%) Eclipse
14 10 (18.87%) QuickTest Pro
15 9 (16.98%) SOAP
15 9 (16.98%) Visual Studio
15 9 (16.98%) Banking

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 14 (26.42%) J2EE
2 12 (22.64%) XML
2 12 (22.64%) soapUI
3 11 (20.75%) Web Services
4 9 (16.98%) SOAP
5 7 (13.21%) HTML
5 7 (13.21%) Ajax
6 5 (9.434%) CSS
6 5 (9.434%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.660%) Java EE
7 3 (5.660%) JSON
7 3 (5.660%) RESTful
7 3 (5.660%) Middleware
8 2 (3.774%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.774%) UDDI
8 2 (3.774%) WAP
8 2 (3.774%) WSDL
8 2 (3.774%) Spring
8 2 (3.774%) .NET
8 2 (3.774%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.547%) Tomcat
2 3 (5.660%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.660%) Windows Azure
3 2 (3.774%) Apache
4 1 (1.887%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.887%) iPlanet
4 1 (1.887%) ATG Dynamo
4 1 (1.887%) ESB
4 1 (1.887%) Liferay
4 1 (1.887%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.887%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.887%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 3 (5.660%) Mingle
2 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.887%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.887%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.660%) WebTrends
1 3 (5.660%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) HTTP
2 5 (9.434%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.887%) Firewall
3 1 (1.887%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.547%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.660%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.660%) DB2
3 2 (3.774%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.887%) MySQL
4 1 (1.887%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.887%) Big Data
4 1 (1.887%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (43.40%) Selenium
2 20 (37.74%) LoadRunner
3 18 (33.96%) JUnit
4 16 (30.19%) Hudson
5 15 (28.30%) Cucumber
6 12 (22.64%) WebDriver
7 10 (18.87%) Eclipse
7 10 (18.87%) QuickTest Pro
8 9 (16.98%) Visual Studio
9 8 (15.09%) JIRA
10 6 (11.32%) FitNesse
10 6 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
11 5 (9.434%) JBehave
11 5 (9.434%) OpenSTA
12 4 (7.547%) Maven
13 3 (5.660%) Git (software)
13 3 (5.660%) TestNG
13 3 (5.660%) Subversion
13 3 (5.660%) TestDirector
General
1 15 (28.30%) Finance
2 9 (16.98%) Banking
3 3 (5.660%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.774%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.774%) Games
5 1 (1.887%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Tester
2 10 (18.87%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 9 (16.98%) Consultant
4 8 (15.09%) Performance Tester
4 8 (15.09%) Test Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.32%) QA Engineer
6 5 (9.434%) Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (7.547%) Java Consultant
7 4 (7.547%) Systems Architect
7 4 (7.547%) Java Architect
7 4 (7.547%) Non-Functional Tester
8 3 (5.660%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (5.660%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.774%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.774%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.774%) QA Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Open Source
2 2 (3.774%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.774%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.774%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.887%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.887%) New Media
3 1 (1.887%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.887%) W3C
3 1 (1.887%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.887%) IPTV
3 1 (1.887%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) UNIX
3 2 (3.774%) Windows
3 2 (3.774%) Android
3 2 (3.774%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (37.74%) Performance Testing
2 20 (37.74%) BDD
3 15 (28.30%) TDD
4 13 (24.53%) Test Scripting
5 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
6 11 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (18.87%) SOA
8 9 (16.98%) Stress Testing
9 8 (15.09%) Load Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Automated Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Software Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Scrum
11 6 (11.32%) Regression Testing
11 6 (11.32%) Security Testing
12 5 (9.434%) ITIL
12 5 (9.434%) Configuration Management
12 5 (9.434%) Test Strategy
12 5 (9.434%) Agile Testing
13 4 (7.547%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) Java
2 24 (45.28%) SQL
3 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.434%) Groovy
5 3 (5.660%) Ruby
6 2 (3.774%) Python
6 2 (3.774%) C#
6 2 (3.774%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.887%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (9.434%) ISEB
2 3 (5.660%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (5.660%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.660%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.660%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.774%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (41.51%) QA
2 1 (1.887%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.887%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.434%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (1.887%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (9.434%) HP
2 4 (7.547%) Oracle
2 4 (7.547%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.547%) RightScale
3 3 (5.660%) Google
4 1 (1.887%) hybris
4 1 (1.887%) JBoss
4 1 (1.887%) IBM
4 1 (1.887%) BEA
4 1 (1.887%) ATG
4 1 (1.887%) VMware
4 1 (1.887%) Yahoo!
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