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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 123
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing JMeter 14 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.19% 1.52% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £448 - £388
25th Percentile £483 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £438 £488
90th Percentile £578 - £488
Central London median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -

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 270 263 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.05% 15.04% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 182 198
10th Percentile £368 £351 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.04%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £675
90th Percentile £738 £711 £777
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £17.41 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.27 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -74.00% - -

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

JMeter
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 September 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) INAP
1 1 (7.14%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (7.14%) RTP
1 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) LoadRunner
2 6 (42.86%) Postman
3 5 (35.71%) Gatling
4 3 (21.43%) NeoLoad
5 2 (14.29%) eggPlant
5 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
5 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.14%) Git
6 1 (7.14%) GitLab
6 1 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (7.14%) Locust
6 1 (7.14%) Newman
6 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (7.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (7.14%) Selenium
6 1 (7.14%) TestCafe
6 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Swagger
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 2 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) LDAP
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Taurus
4 1 (7.14%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Performance Testing
2 10 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
5 7 (50.00%) Observability
6 6 (42.86%) Test Scripting
6 6 (42.86%) Validation
7 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
7 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Microservices
8 4 (28.57%) Performance Engineering
8 4 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
10 2 (14.29%) Agile
10 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
5 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ISEB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Grafana
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) HP Fortify
5 1 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) New Relic
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Dialogic
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Metaswitch
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk