BlazeMeter Contract Job Trends in the East of England

BlazeMeter
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring BlazeMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing BlazeMeter 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.072% - 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.38%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +72.97% -2.63% +18.75%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

BlazeMeter falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 389 298 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.05% 20.65% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 179 289
10th Percentile £222 £213 £181
25th Percentile £400 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £565 £575
90th Percentile £675 £628 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 29
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.53 £15.33
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.15 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.74% -9.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £23.53 £67.56
90th Percentile £67.00 £52.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

BlazeMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BlazeMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

BlazeMeter job vacancy trend in the East of England

BlazeMeter
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BlazeMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BlazeMeter within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Suffolk - 1 - -
BlazeMeter
England

BlazeMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform