JMeter Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apache JMeter
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 130 136
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing JMeter 9 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.38% 1.76% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £503 - £400
25th Percentile £525 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -21.74%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £488
90th Percentile - - £488
London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -14.41%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 266 284 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.23% 13.83% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 183 203
10th Percentile £384 £359 £400
25th Percentile £462 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £719 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £31.13 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £75.45 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in Central London

JMeter
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

JMeter
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 JMeter within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 July 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 -12 8 £550 +29.41% 2
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 - -
JMeter
London

JMeter
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 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) Postman
2 4 (44.44%) Gatling
3 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (22.22%) NeoLoad
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Swagger
2 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Performance Testing
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Test Strategy
3 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Validation
5 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Manual Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 4 (44.44%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (33.33%) Agile
7 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Scrum
7 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Korn
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
1 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) New Relic