The first table below looks at the demand for JMeter skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache JMeter
Rank 417 422 416
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 18 22 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.081% 0.091% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.611% 0.655% 0.280%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 8
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +22.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £36,500 £33,950
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year
-5.06% +25.39%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2944 3358 3212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.25% 13.92% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2546 2999 2885
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £31,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
JMeter
England

JMeter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East JMeter Salary Trend

JMeter
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JMeter across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +5 6 £61,250 +36.11%
Surrey - 6 £27,500 -
Middlesex - 3 £75,000 -
Hampshire -3 2 £45,000 -5.26%
Buckinghamshire -8 1 £45,000 +50.00%
JMeter
England

JMeter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 25 (73.53%) Selenium
2 21 (61.76%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (55.88%) SQL
4 18 (52.94%) Java
5 17 (50.00%) Linux
6 15 (44.12%) Web Services
7 13 (38.24%) Oracle
7 13 (38.24%) Windows
8 12 (35.29%) WebDriver
9 11 (32.35%) ISEB
10 10 (29.41%) MySQL
11 9 (26.47%) QuickTest Pro
11 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
11 9 (26.47%) HP Quality Center
12 8 (23.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (23.53%) Scrum
12 8 (23.53%) UNIX
12 8 (23.53%) J2EE
13 7 (20.59%) JUnit
13 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
13 7 (20.59%) QA
13 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
14 6 (17.65%) Performance Testing
14 6 (17.65%) soapUI
14 6 (17.65%) Chemistry
14 6 (17.65%) Biotechnology
14 6 (17.65%) Life Science
14 6 (17.65%) Spring
14 6 (17.65%) Bioinformatics
14 6 (17.65%) Automated Testing

JMeter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 15 (44.12%) Web Services
2 8 (23.53%) J2EE
3 6 (17.65%) soapUI
3 6 (17.65%) Spring
4 5 (14.71%) REST
5 3 (8.824%) JMS
5 3 (8.824%) XML
5 3 (8.824%) Hibernate
5 3 (8.824%) Java EE
6 2 (5.882%) WCF
6 2 (5.882%) JPA
6 2 (5.882%) HTML5
6 2 (5.882%) Middleware
6 2 (5.882%) JDBC
6 2 (5.882%) SOAP
6 2 (5.882%) .NET
6 2 (5.882%) J2SE
7 1 (2.941%) WAP
7 1 (2.941%) HTML
7 1 (2.941%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) IIS
2 2 (5.882%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.882%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.941%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.941%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) HTTP
1 2 (5.882%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) SAN
2 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.941%) FTP
2 1 (2.941%) CDMA
2 1 (2.941%) GSM
2 1 (2.941%) LAN
2 1 (2.941%) WAN
2 1 (2.941%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) MySQL
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.882%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.882%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.882%) Big Data
3 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (73.53%) Selenium
2 12 (35.29%) WebDriver
3 9 (26.47%) QuickTest Pro
4 8 (23.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (20.59%) JUnit
6 5 (14.71%) JIRA
7 4 (11.76%) QADirector
7 4 (11.76%) Subversion
7 4 (11.76%) LoadRunner
8 3 (8.824%) Hudson
8 3 (8.824%) Jenkins
8 3 (8.824%) Fiddler
9 2 (5.882%) WATIR
9 2 (5.882%) Firebug
9 2 (5.882%) FitNesse
9 2 (5.882%) SpecFlow
9 2 (5.882%) GitHub
9 2 (5.882%) Git (software)
9 2 (5.882%) SilkPerformer
9 2 (5.882%) TestDirector
General
1 6 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.824%) Retail
3 2 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Tester
2 9 (26.47%) Software Tester
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Test Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 3 (8.824%) Team Leader
6 3 (8.824%) Senior Tester
6 3 (8.824%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Performance Test Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.882%) Performance Test Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) Test Architect
7 2 (5.882%) Test Team Leader
7 2 (5.882%) Test Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Chemistry
1 6 (17.65%) Biotechnology
1 6 (17.65%) Life Science
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.941%) AS400
3 1 (2.941%) Clustering
3 1 (2.941%) Replication
3 1 (2.941%) Open Source
3 1 (2.941%) SaaS
3 1 (2.941%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.941%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 13 (38.24%) Windows
3 8 (23.53%) UNIX
4 6 (17.65%) Solaris
4 6 (17.65%) Mac OS X
5 2 (5.882%) SUSE
6 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.941%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.941%) Android
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (23.53%) Scrum
3 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
4 6 (17.65%) Performance Testing
4 6 (17.65%) Bioinformatics
4 6 (17.65%) Automated Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Software Testing
6 4 (11.76%) Multithreading
6 4 (11.76%) Automation Testing
6 4 (11.76%) SOA
7 3 (8.824%) TDD
7 3 (8.824%) BDD
7 3 (8.824%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (8.824%) Integration Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Load Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Stress Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Security Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Test Management
8 2 (5.882%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) SQL
2 18 (52.94%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) PL/SQL
4 5 (14.71%) Python
5 4 (11.76%) C
6 3 (8.824%) C#
6 3 (8.824%) C++
6 3 (8.824%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.882%) Scala
7 2 (5.882%) Perl
7 2 (5.882%) PHP
8 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.941%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) ISEB
2 6 (17.65%) PhD
3 4 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.882%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.941%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 6 (17.65%) GLP
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.941%) Nagios
2 1 (2.941%) WebInspect
2 1 (2.941%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.824%) Citrix
3 3 (8.824%) HP
4 2 (5.882%) VMware
4 2 (5.882%) IBM
5 1 (2.941%) JBoss
5 1 (2.941%) Google
5 1 (2.941%) Red Gate
Reading, Berkshire
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
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