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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 121 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing JMeter 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.51% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.56% 1.87% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £480 - £394
25th Percentile £488 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £488
90th Percentile £583 - £488
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +29.41% -8.11% -11.90%

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 263 268 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.27% 14.54% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 176 189
10th Percentile £409 £345 £404
25th Percentile £463 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £657 £644 £690
90th Percentile £738 £722 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £37.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

JMeter
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

JMeter
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the City of London

JMeter
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Postman
2 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) LoadRunner
3 4 (33.33%) Gatling
4 3 (25.00%) NeoLoad
5 2 (16.67%) eggPlant
5 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (8.33%) Selenium
6 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tester
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Swagger
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) Playwright
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Performance Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
5 6 (50.00%) Observability
6 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
6 5 (41.67%) Validation
7 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Microservices
7 4 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
9 2 (16.67%) Agile
9 2 (16.67%) API Testing
9 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
1 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) HP Fortify
4 1 (8.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic