JMeter Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Apache JMeter
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.20% - 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.54% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £514 - £134
25th Percentile £553 - £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - £154
75th Percentile £688 - £158
90th Percentile £725 - £159
South Wales median daily rate £675 - £154

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 26 35 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.36% 14.46% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 29
10th Percentile £277 £162 £160
25th Percentile £358 £250 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +14.71% -19.05%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £538
90th Percentile £586 £550 £578
South Wales median daily rate £433 £489 £520
% change year-on-year -11.51% -6.01% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £17.82 £26.00
% change year-on-year +348.93% -31.46% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in Cardiff

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Zephyr
2 1 (33.33%) MSTest
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle