JMeter Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache JMeter
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 111 108
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +56
Contract jobs citing JMeter 5 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.30% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.10% 2.03% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £525 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -12.91% -7.05%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £575
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £469
% change year-on-year +29.41% -9.38% -10.67%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 238 246 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.28% 14.57% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 143 191
10th Percentile £363 £408 £400
25th Percentile £438 £433 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -9.69%
75th Percentile £641 £640 £670
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.62%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £50.25
90th Percentile £37.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £40.75
% change year-on-year - - -22.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JMeter

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus