JMeter Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache JMeter
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 13 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.52% 2.64% -
As % of the Development Applications category 10.24% 22.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £350 £316 -
25th Percentile £406 £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £385 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £484 £483 -
90th Percentile £493 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £370 -
% change year-on-year +14.86% - -

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

JMeter falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 127 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.84% 11.51% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 39 50
10th Percentile £342 £361 £259
25th Percentile £427 £409 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £542 £581 £461
90th Percentile £605 £658 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £487 £450
% change year-on-year -0.41% +8.22% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £25.13 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.33 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £56.25
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -17.73% +2.22% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

JMeter job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) GCP
4 6 (46.15%) GitHub
4 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Cucumber
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
1 10 (76.92%) JUnit
1 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 9 (69.23%) Git
2 9 (69.23%) WebDriver
3 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
4 3 (23.08%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
5 1 (7.69%) Postman
5 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (7.69%) TestNG
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Automation Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Test Leader
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Automation Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Systems Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Spring
1 9 (69.23%) WireMock
2 2 (15.38%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.69%) JDBC
3 1 (7.69%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Architecture
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (84.62%) Test Strategy
3 10 (76.92%) BDD
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 10 (76.92%) Load Testing
3 10 (76.92%) TDD
4 9 (69.23%) Agile
4 9 (69.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 9 (69.23%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (69.23%) Microservices
4 9 (69.23%) Observability
4 9 (69.23%) Validation
5 6 (46.15%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
6 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (30.77%) Stress Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) VB
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Grafana
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
1 9 (69.23%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) HP ALM
2 2 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HP
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow