JMeter Contracts in England

Apache JMeter
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JMeter skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMeter over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 417 492
Rank change year-on-year +30 +75 -27
Contract jobs citing JMeter 88 120 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 2.82% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 86 111
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £534 £621
90th Percentile £798 £597 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £516
% change year-on-year - -7.95% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 -
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -
75th Percentile - £40.25 £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
UK median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -50.64% -

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,376 4,251 7,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.79% 11.68% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,278 2,907 5,015
10th Percentile £340 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £612 £638 £675
90th Percentile £736 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 192 203
10th Percentile £27.59 £31.84 £43.17
25th Percentile £49.00 £54.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.37 £78.68 £84.44
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter in England.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter in England.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
London +20 56 £488 -0.10% 15
North of England +15 16 £450 +5.88% 16
Yorkshire +9 10 £450 +5.88% 8
Midlands +15 8 £455 -13.33% 3
North West +18 6 £413 -15.38% 5
West Midlands +12 6 £472 -10.19%
South East +40 5 - - 12
East of England - 4 £500 - 8
East Midlands +3 2 £450 -7.93% 3
South West +41 1 £325 -35.00% 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.68%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) IIS
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.27%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.27%) Shopify
1 2 (2.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.14%) Azure
2 22 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.23%) GitHub
5 5 (5.68%) Datadog
5 5 (5.68%) GCP
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.55%) SaaS
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.41%) BrowserStack
7 3 (3.41%) Serverless
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.27%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.27%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) SSH
2 2 (2.27%) DSL
2 2 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) Multicast
3 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Big Data
5 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (48.86%) Selenium
2 35 (39.77%) LoadRunner
3 32 (36.36%) Jenkins
4 21 (23.86%) JIRA
5 18 (20.45%) Postman
6 15 (17.05%) Cypress.io
6 15 (17.05%) REST Assured
7 13 (14.77%) GitLab
8 12 (13.64%) Cucumber
9 10 (11.36%) Gatling
10 9 (10.23%) NeoLoad
11 8 (9.09%) Git
11 8 (9.09%) TestNG
12 7 (7.95%) JUnit
13 6 (6.82%) CircleCI
14 5 (5.68%) Appium
14 5 (5.68%) Maven
15 4 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
15 4 (4.55%) SpecFlow
16 3 (3.41%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Finance
4 12 (13.64%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Law
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Test Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Tester
3 17 (19.32%) Lead
4 14 (15.91%) Analyst
4 14 (15.91%) Test Analyst
5 13 (14.77%) QA Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) Senior
7 10 (11.36%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
7 10 (11.36%) QA Analyst
7 10 (11.36%) QA Test Analyst
8 9 (10.23%) Developer
8 9 (10.23%) Test Leader
9 8 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
9 8 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (9.09%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) QA Test Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Developer in Test
10 6 (6.82%) Software Developer
11 5 (5.68%) Performance Consultant
11 5 (5.68%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) Playwright
2 10 (11.36%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (7.95%) Kafka
4 6 (6.82%) WireMock
5 5 (5.68%) Gherkin
5 5 (5.68%) REST
5 5 (5.68%) Spring
5 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.55%) HTML
6 4 (4.55%) JSON
6 4 (4.55%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.55%) Web Services
7 3 (3.41%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.27%) .NET
8 2 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
8 2 (2.27%) jQuery
8 2 (2.27%) VML
8 2 (2.27%) WebSockets
8 2 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) FMCG
3 3 (3.41%) Life Science
4 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.27%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Replication
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Linux
2 11 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 53 (60.23%) CI/CD
3 51 (57.95%) Performance Testing
4 40 (45.45%) DevOps
5 39 (44.32%) Agile
6 29 (32.95%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (30.68%) Test Scripting
8 26 (29.55%) Non-Functional Testing
8 26 (29.55%) Test Strategy
9 24 (27.27%) API Testing
10 17 (19.32%) Software Testing
11 16 (18.18%) Scrum
12 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (14.77%) Defect Management
14 13 (14.77%) Manual Testing
14 13 (14.77%) Validation
15 12 (13.64%) BDD
15 12 (13.64%) Integration Testing
16 11 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.45%) Java
2 28 (31.82%) Python
3 24 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 17 (19.32%) C#
5 16 (18.18%) SQL
6 12 (13.64%) Bash
7 8 (9.09%) VB
8 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.55%) C++
9 4 (4.55%) PHP
9 4 (4.55%) Ruby
9 4 (4.55%) Scala
10 3 (3.41%) Groovy
11 2 (2.27%) Go
11 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.27%) RPG
11 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 24 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 7 (7.95%) Degree
4 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) CEH
5 3 (3.41%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (46.59%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) WCAG
4 4 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (3.41%) GxP
6 1 (1.14%) GDPR
6 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.95%) Kibana
3 6 (6.82%) Perfmon
4 5 (5.68%) Terraform
5 4 (4.55%) Ansible
6 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.27%) Grafana
7 2 (2.27%) Salt
8 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 8 (9.09%) New Relic
3 7 (7.95%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle
6 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.27%) Adobe
7 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.27%) Nintex
7 2 (2.27%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.27%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.14%) Ariba
8 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.14%) Databricks
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Ingenico
8 1 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.14%) Okta
8 1 (1.14%) Virgin Media