JMeter Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Apache JMeter
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 78 95
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.24% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.49% 2.96% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £466 - £410
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.68%
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - £527
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 202 169 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.03% 16.44% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 117 185
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £550 £515 £588
90th Percentile £624 £615 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -5.15%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in Manchester

JMeter
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JMeter

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty