BlazeMeter Contract Job Trends in Central London

BlazeMeter
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring BlazeMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing BlazeMeter 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.040% - 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.13%
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £386 £800 £450
% change year-on-year -51.72% +77.78% -16.28%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

BlazeMeter falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,024 786 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 40.00% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 529 635
10th Percentile £361 £348 £383
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £654 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £752
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £34.23 £30.50 £30.30
% change year-on-year +12.23% +0.68% -31.15%

BlazeMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BlazeMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

BlazeMeter job vacancy trend in Central London

BlazeMeter
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BlazeMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BlazeMeter within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 £335 - 1
BlazeMeter
London

BlazeMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) INAP
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch