The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 667 686 731
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +45
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 180 171 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.177% 0.150% 0.113%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.200% 1.038% 0.878%
Number of salaries quoted 165 136 110
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,600 £32,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £68,650
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +20.63%
All Development Applications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
14994 16476 14925
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 14.76% 14.48% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12963 14513 13162
Average salary £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.17% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
JMeter
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JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England JMeter Jobs Demand Trend

JMeter
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JMeter across the England region.

England JMeter Salary Trend

JMeter
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JMeter across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England JMeter Salary Histogram

JMeter
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +67 134 £52,500 +5.00%
South East -8 18 £45,000 -5.26%
Yorkshire +3 12 £36,250 -8.22%
North West -8 7 £30,000 -24.05%
East of England -14 5 £37,500 -
South West -7 4 £31,750 +9.48%
JMeter
UK

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JMeter.

1 288 (78.69%) Selenium
2 206 (56.28%) Java
3 162 (44.26%) Scrum
4 154 (42.08%) Agile Software Development
5 133 (36.34%) SQL
6 129 (35.25%) WebDriver
7 126 (34.43%) QA
8 111 (30.33%) JUnit
9 109 (29.78%) TDD
9 109 (29.78%) Test Automation
10 102 (27.87%) Test Scripting
11 86 (23.50%) Performance Testing
12 83 (22.68%) HTML
13 77 (21.04%) Cucumber
14 70 (19.13%) Oracle
15 68 (18.58%) Test Strategy
16 67 (18.31%) BDD
16 67 (18.31%) CSS
16 67 (18.31%) XML
16 67 (18.31%) E-Commerce
17 62 (16.94%) Automated Testing
18 61 (16.67%) Ruby
18 61 (16.67%) PHP
19 60 (16.39%) SQL Server
19 60 (16.39%) Linux
20 59 (16.12%) J2EE
20 59 (16.12%) LoadRunner
20 59 (16.12%) Jenkins
21 57 (15.57%) JBehave
21 57 (15.57%) JavaScript

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JMeter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 83 (22.68%) HTML
2 67 (18.31%) CSS
2 67 (18.31%) XML
3 59 (16.12%) J2EE
4 48 (13.11%) Spring
5 44 (12.02%) Web Services
6 40 (10.93%) Hibernate
7 33 (9.016%) .NET
8 26 (7.104%) DHTML
8 26 (7.104%) Grails
9 24 (6.557%) soapUI
10 20 (5.464%) SOAP
11 18 (4.918%) Struts
11 18 (4.918%) Gherkin
12 17 (4.645%) REST
13 15 (4.098%) WebSphere
14 11 (3.005%) Node.js
15 10 (2.732%) Ajax
16 8 (2.186%) JMS
16 8 (2.186%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 57 (15.57%) Apache
2 42 (11.48%) Tomcat
3 41 (11.20%) WebLogic
4 12 (3.279%) Mule
5 10 (2.732%) iPlanet
5 10 (2.732%) ATG Dynamo
5 10 (2.732%) nginx
5 10 (2.732%) Amazon AWS
6 9 (2.459%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (2.186%) Confluence
8 6 (1.639%) ESB
9 4 (1.093%) Magento
10 3 (0.820%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.820%) IIS
11 2 (0.546%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.546%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.546%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.546%) Moodle
12 1 (0.273%) Rackspace Cloud
12 1 (0.273%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (0.273%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.273%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.913%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.273%) TIBCO iProcess
2 1 (0.273%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.273%) Lawson
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.464%) HTTP
2 7 (1.913%) Extranet
3 6 (1.639%) Internet
4 4 (1.093%) BSS
5 3 (0.820%) FTP
6 2 (0.546%) CDMA
6 2 (0.546%) GSM
6 2 (0.546%) SAN
6 2 (0.546%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.546%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.273%) NAS
7 1 (0.273%) SSH
7 1 (0.273%) Firewall
7 1 (0.273%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.273%) LAN
7 1 (0.273%) WAN
7 1 (0.273%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 45 (12.30%) MySQL
3 27 (7.377%) RDBMS
4 14 (3.825%) DB2
5 11 (3.005%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.732%) GIS
7 9 (2.459%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.639%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.639%) HBase
9 5 (1.366%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.820%) Big Data
10 3 (0.820%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.273%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 288 (78.69%) Selenium
2 129 (35.25%) WebDriver
3 111 (30.33%) JUnit
4 77 (21.04%) Cucumber
5 59 (16.12%) LoadRunner
5 59 (16.12%) Jenkins
6 57 (15.57%) JBehave
7 56 (15.30%) QuickTest Pro
8 44 (12.02%) Hudson
9 43 (11.75%) JIRA
10 29 (7.923%) Maven
11 26 (7.104%) FitNesse
12 24 (6.557%) OpenSTA
13 21 (5.738%) Subversion
14 19 (5.191%) SpecFlow
15 17 (4.645%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 14 (3.825%) Eclipse
17 13 (3.552%) Ant
18 12 (3.279%) NUnit
19 11 (3.005%) Rational Robot
General
1 30 (8.197%) Finance
2 19 (5.191%) Publishing
3 18 (4.918%) Telecoms
4 16 (4.372%) Retail
5 13 (3.552%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (2.186%) Banking
7 6 (1.639%) Marketing
7 6 (1.639%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.366%) Games
9 2 (0.546%) Law
10 1 (0.273%) Legal
10 1 (0.273%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.273%) Back Office
10 1 (0.273%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 157 (42.90%) Analyst
2 121 (33.06%) Test Analyst
3 63 (17.21%) Tester
4 59 (16.12%) Senior Analyst
5 53 (14.48%) Developer
6 51 (13.93%) Test Engineer
7 46 (12.57%) Senior Test Analyst
7 46 (12.57%) QA Engineer
8 36 (9.836%) Agile Test Analyst
9 27 (7.377%) Java Developer
10 24 (6.557%) Senior Test Engineer
11 21 (5.738%) Automation Tester
12 20 (5.464%) Test Leader
13 19 (5.191%) QA Analyst
14 18 (4.918%) Support Analyst
15 17 (4.645%) Performance Test Leader
16 14 (3.825%) Senior QA Engineer
17 12 (3.279%) Software Engineer
17 12 (3.279%) Senior Developer
18 11 (3.005%) Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.743%) Open Source
2 12 (3.279%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.732%) Clustering
3 10 (2.732%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.732%) Replication
4 9 (2.459%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.186%) Digital Media
6 6 (1.639%) Life Science
6 6 (1.639%) Chemistry
6 6 (1.639%) Biotechnology
7 5 (1.366%) Statistics
8 3 (0.820%) iPad
8 3 (0.820%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.820%) Computer Science
8 3 (0.820%) Derivative
8 3 (0.820%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.820%) Equities
8 3 (0.820%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.546%) AS400
9 2 (0.546%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.39%) Linux
2 39 (10.66%) UNIX
3 24 (6.557%) Windows
4 17 (4.645%) Solaris
5 12 (3.279%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.279%) CentOS
6 10 (2.732%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.459%) Android
7 9 (2.459%) Debian
8 6 (1.639%) Mac OS X
9 5 (1.366%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.546%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.546%) Windows 2000
10 2 (0.546%) SUSE
10 2 (0.546%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.546%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.273%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.273%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (44.26%) Scrum
2 154 (42.08%) Agile Software Development
3 109 (29.78%) TDD
3 109 (29.78%) Test Automation
4 102 (27.87%) Test Scripting
5 86 (23.50%) Performance Testing
6 68 (18.58%) Test Strategy
7 67 (18.31%) BDD
7 67 (18.31%) E-Commerce
8 62 (16.94%) Automated Testing
9 55 (15.03%) Agile Testing
10 49 (13.39%) Automation Testing
11 46 (12.57%) Software Testing
11 46 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
12 40 (10.93%) Load Testing
13 34 (9.290%) ITIL
14 33 (9.016%) SOA
15 26 (7.104%) Data Modelling
15 26 (7.104%) Regression Testing
16 25 (6.831%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 206 (56.28%) Java
2 133 (36.34%) SQL
3 61 (16.67%) Ruby
3 61 (16.67%) PHP
4 57 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.57%) C#
6 32 (8.743%) PL/SQL
7 29 (7.923%) Groovy
8 21 (5.738%) Perl
9 17 (4.645%) T-SQL
10 15 (4.098%) C++
11 14 (3.825%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.552%) Python
13 10 (2.732%) Bash shell
14 9 (2.459%) Erlang
14 9 (2.459%) C
15 8 (2.186%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.093%) VB
17 3 (0.820%) Korn
17 3 (0.820%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 51 (13.93%) ISEB
2 26 (7.104%) ISTQB
3 25 (6.831%) Degree
4 6 (1.639%) PhD
5 3 (0.820%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.820%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.820%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (34.43%) QA
2 6 (1.639%) GLP
3 1 (0.273%) WAI
System Software
1 4 (1.093%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.273%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.273%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 23 (6.284%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (3.005%) Puppet
3 10 (2.732%) Nagios
4 9 (2.459%) CFEngine
4 9 (2.459%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.186%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.546%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.273%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.273%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 70 (19.13%) Oracle
2 20 (5.464%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.918%) ATG
4 16 (4.372%) JBoss
5 14 (3.825%) IBM
6 10 (2.732%) BEA
6 10 (2.732%) Joyent
7 9 (2.459%) Talend
7 9 (2.459%) Percona
8 8 (2.186%) hybris
9 7 (1.913%) Cisco
9 7 (1.913%) Nortel
9 7 (1.913%) Avaya
10 6 (1.639%) VMware
10 6 (1.639%) Zend
11 5 (1.366%) HP
12 3 (0.820%) Citrix
13 1 (0.273%) Twitter
13 1 (0.273%) Fiserv
13 1 (0.273%) Red Gate
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Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40000
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Desirable skills and experience: Solid manual and exploratory testing is required Good understanding of Agile principles and values including working experience on a Scrum team Awareness of TDD...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Java / J2EE / Grails / Groovy / / SQL Server / Oracle / RDBMS / HTML / CSS / XML / Spring / Hibernate... Bamboo / Hudson. Oracle PL/SQL. JUnit, JMeter, Selenium/ Fitnesse /Cucumber. HTML/DHTML/CSS /XML/JavaScript.....
Venturi
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Java / J2EE / Grails / Groovy / / SQL Server / Oracle / RDBMS / HTML / CSS / XML / Spring / Hibernate... Bamboo / Hudson. Oracle PL/SQL. JUnit, JMeter, Selenium/ Fitnesse /Cucumber. HTML/DHTML/CSS /XML/JavaScript.....
Venturi
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
The environment is currently Java, and candidates would ideally have exposure to the following: Jmeter SoapUI LoadUI Experience required: 2 years working within a structured performance test environment...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
South East
Strong Test Automation experience with tools like QTP, Selenium (Primary Skill) - Strong experience in Performance testing using tools like loadrunner, Jmeter, silkperformer etc... ISEB/ISTQB qualification is essential.
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 6 May 2013
London
This leading publisher and education company based in the centre of London is looking for an experienced QA Engineer to join their team to support the QA function...
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum DOE
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