JMeter Contract Job Trends in London

Apache JMeter
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 325 371
Rank change year-on-year -3 +46 +95
Contract jobs citing JMeter 39 57 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 2.45% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 52
10th Percentile £323 £397 £308
25th Percentile £381 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £569 £575
90th Percentile £725 £600 £600
England median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - - £84.00

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,125 2,323 2,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 14.45% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 1,560 2,174
10th Percentile £351 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 29
10th Percentile £36.63 £25.99 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £28.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -34.78% +32.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.34 £75.00
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.88 £87.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMeter.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JMeter

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +4 3 £425 -10.53%
South London 0 2 - -
East London - 2 £530 - 1
JMeter
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.26%) Serverless
5 3 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Selenium
2 12 (30.77%) Cucumber
3 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (25.64%) Gatling
4 10 (25.64%) JUnit
5 8 (20.51%) GitLab
5 8 (20.51%) Postman
6 7 (17.95%) LoadRunner
6 7 (17.95%) Locust
7 6 (15.38%) JIRA
8 4 (10.26%) REST Assured
8 4 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
9 3 (7.69%) Git
9 3 (7.69%) Gradle
10 2 (5.13%) IntelliJ
10 2 (5.13%) Mockito
10 2 (5.13%) NeoLoad
10 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
10 2 (5.13%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Police
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 8 (20.51%) Test Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Performance Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Tester
5 5 (12.82%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Automation Tester
7 3 (7.69%) Developer in Test
7 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Development Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) REST
2 12 (30.77%) Kafka
3 10 (25.64%) Playwright
4 8 (20.51%) Spring
5 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
6 6 (15.38%) HTML
6 6 (15.38%) JMS
6 6 (15.38%) JSON
6 6 (15.38%) Middleware
7 5 (12.82%) gRPC
7 5 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (12.82%) Web Services
7 5 (12.82%) WebSockets
8 4 (10.26%) CSS
8 4 (10.26%) pytest
8 4 (10.26%) RESTful
8 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
8 4 (10.26%) WireMock
8 4 (10.26%) XML
9 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Test Automation
2 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 22 (56.41%) Performance Testing
4 18 (46.15%) DevOps
5 14 (35.90%) Agile
5 14 (35.90%) Test Strategy
6 13 (33.33%) API Testing
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
7 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (23.08%) Software Testing
9 8 (20.51%) Observability
9 8 (20.51%) SDET
9 8 (20.51%) Validation
10 7 (17.95%) BDD
10 7 (17.95%) Security Testing
11 6 (15.38%) AI
11 6 (15.38%) Load Testing
11 6 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
11 6 (15.38%) Test Scripting
12 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (41.03%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) logstash
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) VMware
2 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath