JMeter Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apache JMeter
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 163 169
Rank change year-on-year -61 +6 +33
Contract jobs citing JMeter 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.057% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.30% 0.51% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £285 - £297
25th Percentile £290 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £297 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.85%
75th Percentile £388 - £563
90th Percentile £438 - £594
England median daily rate £463 £450 £482
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.54% -12.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £38.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.64%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 540 395 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.20% 11.28% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 270 341
10th Percentile £278 £286 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.53%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £603
90th Percentile £650 £615 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 25 33
10th Percentile £47.50 £48.50 £45.74
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +11.59%
75th Percentile £71.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.98 £73.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the South East over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JMeter.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JMeter

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Berkshire -17 4 £411 - 5
Thames Valley -40 4 £411 - 5
West Sussex - 2 £294 -
Surrey - 1 £288 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (28.57%) Couchbase
1 2 (28.57%) Db2
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) LoadRunner
2 3 (42.86%) NeoLoad
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
4 1 (14.29%) Gatling
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Performance Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) Redux
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
1 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
2 3 (42.86%) AppDynamics
3 2 (28.57%) Solace
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Parasoft