The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 215 225 252
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +27
Contract jobs citing JMeter 10 17 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.124% 0.169% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.161% 1.993% 0.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
Average daily rate £388 £300 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.16% -26.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £264 £394
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £330 £422
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
861 853 1110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.65% 8.491% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 423 481
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £258 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 111
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
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JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East JMeter Daily Rate Trend

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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 South East 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
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Job
Vacancies
Surrey +9 6 £388 +44.58%
Hampshire -6 3 £300 -
Middlesex - - - -
Berkshire - - - - 3
Buckinghamshire - - - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 8 (50.00%) Web Services
1 8 (50.00%) Selenium
1 8 (50.00%) Groovy
2 7 (43.75%) soapUI
3 6 (37.50%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 6 (37.50%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
3 6 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (31.25%) WebDriver
5 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (25.00%) ESB
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) SOAP
5 4 (25.00%) SOA
5 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) Web Development
6 3 (18.75%) Capita
6 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
6 3 (18.75%) QA
6 3 (18.75%) Firebug
6 3 (18.75%) Fiddler
6 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (12.50%) MSTest
7 2 (12.50%) NUnit
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 8 (50.00%) Web Services
2 7 (43.75%) soapUI
3 4 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (6.250%) .NET
4 1 (6.250%) REST
4 1 (6.250%) XML
4 1 (6.250%) WAP
4 1 (6.250%) JSON
4 1 (6.250%) WCF
4 1 (6.250%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
2 4 (25.00%) ESB
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) CDMA
1 1 (6.250%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Selenium
2 6 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 5 (31.25%) WebDriver
4 3 (18.75%) Firebug
4 3 (18.75%) Fiddler
5 2 (12.50%) NUnit
5 2 (12.50%) MSTest
5 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.250%) Hudson
6 1 (6.250%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.250%) GitHub
6 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.250%) JUnit
6 1 (6.250%) SilkPerformer
6 1 (6.250%) WATIR
6 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
6 1 (6.250%) FitNesse
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Test Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Test Leader
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Test Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Test Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) QA Leader
5 1 (6.250%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) SUSE
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Scrum
1 6 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) SOA
2 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.250%) TDD
5 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Load Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Stress Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Security Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Groovy
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C
5 1 (6.250%) C#
5 1 (6.250%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) Perl
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
5 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) ISEB
1 1 (6.250%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Capita
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
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