JMeter Contract Job Trends in Reading

Apache JMeter
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 60 93
Rank change year-on-year -29 +33 -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.27% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.77% 3.23% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £566
25th Percentile £424 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - £588
75th Percentile £471 - £597
90th Percentile - - £599
Berkshire median daily rate £411 - £588

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 52 62 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 4.70% 10.63% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 87
10th Percentile £420 £359 £387
25th Percentile £468 £452 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -12.39% -2.50%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £638 £670
Berkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £68.36 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £79.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 £66.75 £58.49
% change year-on-year +6.37% +14.12% -

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in Reading

JMeter
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing JMeter

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
1 2 (66.67%) NeoLoad
2 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace