JMeter Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache JMeter
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 130 149
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing JMeter 5 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 4.29% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 12
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £444
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.41% +14.52%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £575
90th Percentile - £512 -
South East median daily rate £425 £444 £463
% change year-on-year -4.23% -4.05% +2.78%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

JMeter is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 262 326 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.79% 11.27% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 224 261
10th Percentile £324 £363 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +13.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £719 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.68% +2.67% +14.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -10 4 £425 -4.23%
Buckinghamshire +27 1 - -
JMeter
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Tester
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tester
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Performance Tester
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Process Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk