JMeter Contract Job Trends in the North East

Apache JMeter
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.00% 0.33% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.82% 1.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £444 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% - -
75th Percentile £531 £338 -
90th Percentile £543 - -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £452
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.09% -11.59%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 83 73 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.75% 24.33% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 5
10th Percentile £373 £310 £433
25th Percentile £425 £345 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £440 £454
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -3.08% -21.04%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £475
90th Percentile £600 £598 £520
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the North East over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Tyne and Wear -8 4 £500 +53.85% 2
JMeter
England

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Gatling
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) TestRail
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx