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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 124 154
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +35
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.06% 1.89% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £388 £266
25th Percentile £413 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -18.80%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £594
90th Percentile - £488 £600
London median daily rate £485 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.11% -13.64% -

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 283 318 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.51% 13.71% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 210 287
10th Percentile £355 £400 £387
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £595
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -6.43% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £700 £783 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
% change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in Central London

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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

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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 18 September 2025. 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 +8 3 £425 -10.53% 3
JMeter
London

JMeter
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft