JMeter Contract Job Trends in the North West

Apache JMeter
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JMeter skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 119 129
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing JMeter 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.091% 0.042% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.54% 0.44% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £338 £488 £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 370 226 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.88% 9.54% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 139 233
10th Percentile £313 £325 £335
25th Percentile £364 £375 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £537 £550 £619
90th Percentile £634 £615 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 33
10th Percentile £66.70 - £45.88
25th Percentile £70.04 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%
75th Percentile £76.88 £49.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £51.00 £77.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Cheshire - 1 £325 - 1
JMeter
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared