Apache JMeter
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 524 454
Rank change year-on-year +58 -70 -6
Contract jobs citing JMeter 132 196 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.58% 2.16% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 139 334
10th Percentile £361 £406 £369
25th Percentile £413 £429 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +2.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £616 £587
90th Percentile £602 £738 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £492 £450
% change year-on-year -13.68% +9.42% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.64% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +69 111 £450 -11.76% 26
London +77 66 £475 -9.95% 10
Work from Home +103 58 £450 -10.00% 20
UK excluding London +30 48 £425 -13.68% 20
North of England +20 20 £425 -12.33% 6
Yorkshire +29 15 £425 -10.53% 2
Midlands +24 10 £525 +16.67% 2
East Midlands +26 9 £525 +23.53% 1
South East +9 9 £425 -4.23% 5
North West -5 5 £425 -12.33% 3
Scotland +32 4 £625 +6.38% 4
South West +20 3 £500 -25.09% 1
Wales +14 2 £363 -42.00% 1
West Midlands +27 1 £525 +7.69% 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (18.18%) Confluence
2 4 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.76%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.76%) AWS
2 28 (21.21%) Azure
3 13 (9.85%) GitHub
4 11 (8.33%) Serverless
5 10 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.82%) Azure AKS
6 9 (6.82%) Azure Functions
6 9 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.79%) BlazeMeter
8 5 (3.79%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.79%) Firebase
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) HTTP
2 3 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.79%) MySQL
3 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.27%) Big Data
4 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (41.67%) Selenium
2 45 (34.09%) JIRA
3 28 (21.21%) Cucumber
4 26 (19.70%) Jenkins
5 25 (18.94%) LoadRunner
6 22 (16.67%) Cypress.io
7 19 (14.39%) Postman
8 18 (13.64%) Git
9 12 (9.09%) SoapUI
9 12 (9.09%) WebDriver
10 11 (8.33%) GitLab
11 9 (6.82%) JUnit
12 7 (5.30%) Appium
12 7 (5.30%) Gatling
12 7 (5.30%) SpecFlow
12 7 (5.30%) TestRail
13 6 (4.55%) NeoLoad
13 6 (4.55%) REST Assured
14 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
15 4 (3.03%) Gradle
General
1 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.55%) Banking
7 5 (3.79%) Back Office
8 3 (2.27%) Front Office
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.52%) Automotive
9 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (22.73%) Test Engineer
1 30 (22.73%) Tester
2 21 (15.91%) Performance Engineer
3 19 (14.39%) Senior
4 16 (12.12%) Test Manager
5 15 (11.36%) Lead
6 14 (10.61%) Performance Test Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Analyst
7 11 (8.33%) Test Analyst
8 10 (7.58%) Performance Tester
8 10 (7.58%) Test Leader
9 8 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Automation Tester
10 7 (5.30%) QA Tester
11 5 (3.79%) Senior Tester
12 4 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) QA Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) REST
2 15 (11.36%) Kafka
2 15 (11.36%) Node.js
3 12 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 12 (9.09%) SOAP
4 11 (8.33%) React
4 11 (8.33%) XML
5 10 (7.58%) LDAP
5 10 (7.58%) Web Services
6 8 (6.06%) ADO
6 8 (6.06%) Middleware
6 8 (6.06%) Playwright
6 8 (6.06%) Spring
7 6 (4.55%) .NET
7 6 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.55%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (3.79%) JSON
9 4 (3.03%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.30%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.52%) PKI
5 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.76%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.76%) Replication
6 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Windows
3 4 (3.03%) Mac OS X
3 4 (3.03%) Unix
4 2 (1.52%) VMS
4 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.06%) Test Automation
2 53 (40.15%) Performance Testing
3 47 (35.61%) Agile
4 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
5 29 (21.97%) Test Strategy
6 28 (21.21%) BDD
7 27 (20.45%) Test Management
8 21 (15.91%) Test Scripting
9 19 (14.39%) DevOps
10 18 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.64%) Scrum
10 18 (13.64%) TDD
11 14 (10.61%) Non-Functional Testing
11 14 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (10.61%) Software Testing
12 13 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (9.85%) User Stories
13 12 (9.09%) Analytics
13 12 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 12 (9.09%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.36%) Java
2 31 (23.48%) Python
3 21 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 13 (9.85%) C#
6 10 (7.58%) SQL
7 5 (3.79%) C
7 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.03%) C++
8 4 (3.03%) Groovy
8 4 (3.03%) Scala
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.82%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.30%) Degree
5 6 (4.55%) ISEB
6 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.48%) QA
2 13 (9.85%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.82%) WCAG
4 2 (1.52%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.85%) Terraform
3 11 (8.33%) Grafana
4 10 (7.58%) Ansible
4 10 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.82%) Argo
6 6 (4.55%) Kibana
7 4 (3.03%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (12.12%) Oracle
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.30%) Splunk
4 6 (4.55%) HP
5 5 (3.79%) SAP
6 4 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.52%) Adobe
8 2 (1.52%) Omniture
8 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Finsemble
9 1 (0.76%) IBM
9 1 (0.76%) JDA
9 1 (0.76%) VMware