The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 73 86 99
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +13
Contract jobs citing JMeter 6 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.519% 0.668% 0.110%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.800% 4.603% 1.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
Average daily rate £388 £250 £138
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+55.00% +81.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
+20.83% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
125 239 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 10.80% 14.52% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 144 111
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +5.88%
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Staines - 6 £388 -
JMeter
South East

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (75.00%) Visual Studio
1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
1 6 (75.00%) Groovy
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Azure
2 4 (50.00%) soapUI
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) ESB
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) MSTest
4 2 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Selenium
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) SilkPerformer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) JUnit

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (75.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) soapUI
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) WAP
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Azure
2 4 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) CDMA
1 1 (12.50%) GSM
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SilkPerformer
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Hudson
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Test Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle