JMeter Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache JMeter
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 151 124 141
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 +41
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.49% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 4.58% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £334 £309 £390
25th Percentile £368 £337 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £359 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -15.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £457 £370 £438
90th Percentile £468 £382 £475
England median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +2.44%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 422 284 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.23% 10.66% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 198 186
10th Percentile £307 £350 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £474
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.54% -5.25%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £685 £658
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £40.69 £65.00 £76.59
Median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% -10.47% +64.60%
75th Percentile £52.69 £75.00 £79.78
90th Percentile £56.03 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the Midlands 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
East Midlands -2 3 £438 +20.69% 2
JMeter
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Nintex
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle