The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 514 537 549
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +12
Contract jobs citing JMeter 40 52 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.090% 0.061%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.753% 0.946% 0.570%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 27
Average daily rate £388 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £287 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £605 £432
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5315 5495 6670
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.92% 9.463% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3327 3245 3886
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £589
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 222 287
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.98 £23.60 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%

JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

JMeter Daily Rate Trend

JMeter
Daily Rate Histogram

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

JMeter Daily Rate Histogram

JMeter
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JMeter within the UK.

JMeter Hourly Rate Trend

JMeter
Top 30 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 UK 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
England +2 39 £388 +6.89% 15
London +17 20 £346 -30.75% 8
South East +10 10 £388 +29.16% 3
Surrey +9 6 £388 +44.58%
West Yorkshire +1 6 £400 +33.33%
Yorkshire -2 6 £400 +33.33% 1
Leeds 0 5 £400 +33.33%
Hampshire -6 3 £300 -
City of London +3 2 - - 4
East of England - 2 £343 - 3
Cambridgeshire - 2 £343 - 2
South West +26 1 - -
Dorset -3 1 - -
Weymouth - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 - -
Bedford - - - - 1
Cambridge - - - - 2
Glasgow - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - -
Norwich - - - -
Peterborough - - - -
Reading - - - - 2
Wembley - - - -
York - - - - 1
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
Berkshire - - - - 3
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Liverpool - - - -

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 43 (45.74%) Java
2 41 (43.62%) SQL
3 37 (39.36%) Selenium
4 28 (29.79%) Agile Software Development
5 27 (28.72%) QA
5 27 (28.72%) Performance Testing
6 23 (24.47%) JUnit
6 23 (24.47%) BDD
7 22 (23.40%) Web Services
7 22 (23.40%) LoadRunner
7 22 (23.40%) Finance
8 20 (21.28%) Test Scripting
9 19 (20.21%) soapUI
10 18 (19.15%) WebDriver
10 18 (19.15%) Linux
10 18 (19.15%) J2EE
11 17 (18.09%) TDD
11 17 (18.09%) Cucumber
11 17 (18.09%) Hudson
12 16 (17.02%) XML
13 15 (15.96%) Oracle
13 15 (15.96%) Visual Studio
13 15 (15.96%) Scrum
13 15 (15.96%) Groovy
13 15 (15.96%) Automated Testing
13 15 (15.96%) Software Testing
14 14 (14.89%) JIRA
14 14 (14.89%) SOAP
14 14 (14.89%) SOA
15 13 (13.83%) Eclipse

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 22 (23.40%) Web Services
2 19 (20.21%) soapUI
3 18 (19.15%) J2EE
4 16 (17.02%) XML
5 14 (14.89%) SOAP
6 7 (7.447%) CSS
6 7 (7.447%) HTML
6 7 (7.447%) Ajax
7 5 (5.319%) Spring
7 5 (5.319%) Gherkin
8 4 (4.255%) Drools
8 4 (4.255%) RESTful
8 4 (4.255%) JSON
9 3 (3.191%) HTML5
9 3 (3.191%) REST
9 3 (3.191%) Java EE
9 3 (3.191%) .NET
9 3 (3.191%) Struts
9 3 (3.191%) WAP
9 3 (3.191%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (9.574%) Windows Azure
2 5 (5.319%) Tomcat
2 5 (5.319%) ESB
3 3 (3.191%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.128%) Apache
5 1 (1.064%) IIS
5 1 (1.064%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.064%) Liferay
5 1 (1.064%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.064%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.064%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.064%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.064%) iPlanet
5 1 (1.064%) ATG Dynamo
Applications
1 3 (3.191%) Mingle
2 2 (2.128%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.064%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.064%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.191%) WebTrends
1 3 (3.191%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.447%) HTTP
2 5 (5.319%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.064%) Extranet
3 1 (1.064%) Firewall
3 1 (1.064%) DNS
3 1 (1.064%) CDMA
3 1 (1.064%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.255%) SQL Server
1 4 (4.255%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.191%) DB2
3 2 (2.128%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.128%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.064%) MySQL
4 1 (1.064%) Big Data
4 1 (1.064%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.064%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.064%) DTS
Development Applications
1 37 (39.36%) Selenium
2 23 (24.47%) JUnit
3 22 (23.40%) LoadRunner
4 18 (19.15%) WebDriver
5 17 (18.09%) Cucumber
5 17 (18.09%) Hudson
6 15 (15.96%) Visual Studio
7 14 (14.89%) JIRA
8 13 (13.83%) Eclipse
9 10 (10.64%) QuickTest Pro
10 7 (7.447%) FitNesse
10 7 (7.447%) Jenkins
11 6 (6.383%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (6.383%) OpenSTA
12 5 (5.319%) JBehave
13 4 (4.255%) Git (software)
13 4 (4.255%) Maven
13 4 (4.255%) NUnit
13 4 (4.255%) Ant
14 3 (3.191%) TestDirector
General
1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 9 (9.574%) Banking
3 6 (6.383%) Retail
4 5 (5.319%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.128%) Games
5 2 (2.128%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.064%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Tester
2 21 (22.34%) Analyst
3 18 (19.15%) Test Analyst
4 15 (15.96%) Consultant
5 14 (14.89%) Test Leader
6 12 (12.77%) Performance Tester
7 10 (10.64%) Architect
7 10 (10.64%) Developer
8 7 (7.447%) QA Engineer
9 6 (6.383%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.383%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.319%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (5.319%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.255%) Systems Architect
11 4 (4.255%) Java Consultant
11 4 (4.255%) Test Consultant
11 4 (4.255%) QA Analyst
11 4 (4.255%) Java Architect
11 4 (4.255%) Non-Functional Tester
12 3 (3.191%) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Open Source
2 7 (7.447%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.191%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.128%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.064%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.064%) New Media
5 1 (1.064%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.064%) EPoS
5 1 (1.064%) W3C
5 1 (1.064%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.064%) IPTV
5 1 (1.064%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) UNIX
3 8 (8.511%) Windows
4 3 (3.191%) Android
4 3 (3.191%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.064%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.79%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (28.72%) Performance Testing
3 23 (24.47%) BDD
4 20 (21.28%) Test Scripting
5 17 (18.09%) TDD
6 15 (15.96%) Automated Testing
6 15 (15.96%) Software Testing
6 15 (15.96%) Scrum
7 14 (14.89%) SOA
8 13 (13.83%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (10.64%) Load Testing
10 10 (10.64%) Stress Testing
11 8 (8.511%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (7.447%) Security Testing
12 7 (7.447%) Regression Testing
12 7 (7.447%) Manual Testing
13 6 (6.383%) Test Strategy
13 6 (6.383%) Agile Project Management
13 6 (6.383%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) Java
2 41 (43.62%) SQL
3 15 (15.96%) Groovy
4 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.319%) Ruby
6 4 (4.255%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.255%) C#
6 4 (4.255%) Python
7 2 (2.128%) C
7 2 (2.128%) PHP
7 2 (2.128%) C++
8 1 (1.064%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) ISEB
2 9 (9.574%) ISTQB
3 8 (8.511%) Degree
4 3 (3.191%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.191%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.191%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.72%) QA
2 1 (1.064%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.064%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.319%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.064%) Nagios
2 1 (1.064%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Oracle
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.383%) HP
3 6 (6.383%) Capita
4 4 (4.255%) RightScale
5 3 (3.191%) Google
6 2 (2.128%) JBoss
7 1 (1.064%) IBM
7 1 (1.064%) Yahoo!
7 1 (1.064%) BEA
7 1 (1.064%) ATG
7 1 (1.064%) VMware
7 1 (1.064%) hybris
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