JMeter Contracts in the North of England

Apache JMeter
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 166 186
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +15
Contract jobs citing JMeter 11 19 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.21% 3.76% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 28
10th Percentile £408 £391 £413
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.82% +21.29%
75th Percentile £508 £441 £620
90th Percentile £524 £450 £625
England median daily rate £485 £453 £510
% change year-on-year +7.18% -11.27% +2.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire -1 6 £463 +8.82% 2
North West +18 5 £500 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) NuGet
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) LoadRunner
3 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Tester
2 4 (36.36%) Software Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Data Validation
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
3 6 (54.55%) Validation
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) System Testing
4 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
1 2 (18.18%) Puppet
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media