Apache JMeter
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 733 674 613
Rank change year-on-year -59 -61 -56
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 163 310 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.71% 2.03% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 97 201 326
10th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £40,625
25th Percentile £42,750 £50,469 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £85,250 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.73% +13.50% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Salary trend for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 120 £65,000 - 26
UK excluding London +13 108 £60,000 +5.73% 20
Work from Home +47 72 £50,000 -23.08% 20
London +27 53 £75,000 +5.16% 10
South East +14 29 £53,750 -23.21% 5
Scotland -38 28 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North of England +34 22 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Yorkshire +88 14 £53,500 +4.90% 2
Midlands +18 12 £60,000 - 2
Wales +19 10 £70,000 +29.64% 1
East Midlands -6 9 £62,500 - 1
North West +4 8 £37,500 -31.82% 3
South West -8 5 £32,500 -50.94% 1
West Midlands +28 3 £60,000 - 1
East of England +12 2 - - 1

JMeter
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 7 (4.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Apache
2 1 (0.61%) Drupal
2 1 (0.61%) JBoss
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (37.42%) Azure
2 48 (29.45%) AWS
3 32 (19.63%) BlazeMeter
4 22 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.66%) GitHub
5 19 (11.66%) SaaS
6 16 (9.82%) BrowserStack
7 9 (5.52%) GCP
8 7 (4.29%) Serverless
9 5 (3.07%) Sauce Labs
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.84%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) 3G
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.68%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.45%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (42.94%) Selenium
2 42 (25.77%) Jenkins
3 39 (23.93%) Postman
4 34 (20.86%) Cucumber
5 33 (20.25%) JUnit
6 29 (17.79%) JIRA
7 24 (14.72%) Cypress.io
8 23 (14.11%) SoapUI
9 21 (12.88%) LoadRunner
10 19 (11.66%) SpecFlow
11 17 (10.43%) Maven
12 15 (9.20%) Gatling
13 14 (8.59%) WebDriver
14 13 (7.98%) Appium
15 12 (7.36%) Git
15 12 (7.36%) REST Assured
15 12 (7.36%) Serenity BDD
16 10 (6.13%) Bitbucket
16 10 (6.13%) Bitbucket Server
17 9 (5.52%) Gradle
General
1 47 (28.83%) Finance
2 35 (21.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
4 28 (17.18%) Marketing
5 27 (16.56%) Law
6 17 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (10.43%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.13%) Retail
8 5 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.45%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.45%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.61%) Aviation
12 1 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.61%) Military
12 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (19.63%) Software Engineer
2 29 (17.79%) Lead
3 27 (16.56%) Java Engineer
4 26 (15.95%) Java Software Engineer
5 22 (13.50%) QA Engineer
6 20 (12.27%) Senior
6 20 (12.27%) Test Engineer
6 20 (12.27%) Tester
7 17 (10.43%) Full Stack Engineer
7 17 (10.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 15 (9.20%) Analyst
9 14 (8.59%) Developer
10 12 (7.36%) QA Leader
11 11 (6.75%) Automation Tester
12 10 (6.13%) Test Analyst
13 9 (5.52%) QA Software Engineer
14 8 (4.91%) Performance Tester
14 8 (4.91%) Test Specialist
15 7 (4.29%) Quality Engineer
16 6 (3.68%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.63%) React
2 24 (14.72%) Web Services
3 19 (11.66%) Spring
3 19 (11.66%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.82%) REST
5 14 (8.59%) SOAP
6 13 (7.98%) RESTful
7 10 (6.13%) .NET
7 10 (6.13%) Swagger
7 10 (6.13%) WireMock
8 9 (5.52%) Ext JS
8 9 (5.52%) Playwright
9 7 (4.29%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.29%) HTML
10 6 (3.68%) Kafka
11 5 (3.07%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.07%) jQuery
12 4 (2.45%) Apache Camel
12 4 (2.45%) OAuth
12 4 (2.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.95%) Market Risk
2 12 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.68%) Hackathon
3 6 (3.68%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.68%) Social Media
4 5 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) BBC
6 1 (0.61%) Clustering
6 1 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.68%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (80.98%) Test Automation
2 104 (63.80%) Agile
3 69 (42.33%) CI/CD
4 68 (41.72%) Performance Testing
5 60 (36.81%) Software Testing
6 46 (28.22%) BDD
7 43 (26.38%) DevOps
7 43 (26.38%) Microservices
8 39 (23.93%) SDLC
9 38 (23.31%) SDET
10 37 (22.70%) Software Engineering
10 37 (22.70%) TDD
11 33 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (19.63%) Test Scripting
13 27 (16.56%) Operational Stability
14 26 (15.95%) Electronic Trading
14 26 (15.95%) Risk Management
15 23 (14.11%) API Testing
15 23 (14.11%) Code Quality
15 23 (14.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 88 (53.99%) Java
2 51 (31.29%) SQL
3 37 (22.70%) C#
4 31 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 25 (15.34%) Python
6 4 (2.45%) C
6 4 (2.45%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.45%) Ruby
6 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.23%) Go
8 1 (0.61%) Bash
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) Groovy
8 1 (0.61%) Perl
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.59%) ISTQB
4 11 (6.75%) Degree
5 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.45%) GIAC
7 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.23%) ISEB
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.22%) QA
2 18 (11.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (9.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.36%) Grafana
3 10 (6.13%) Kibana
4 8 (4.91%) Terraform
5 4 (2.45%) Ansible
6 3 (1.84%) Consul
7 2 (1.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.61%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.61%) Packer
8 1 (0.61%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.98%) Oracle
3 9 (5.52%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.52%) TOWER Software
4 8 (4.91%) Splunk
5 7 (4.29%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.68%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.23%) Databricks
7 2 (1.23%) Google
8 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) New Relic
8 1 (0.61%) Red Hat