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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 162 202
Rank change year-on-year -12 +40 -2
Contract jobs citing JMeter 18 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.79% 1.42% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile £309 £433 £419
25th Percentile £320 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £475 £570
Median % change year-on-year -21.58% -16.67% +4.20%
75th Percentile £412 £534 £575
90th Percentile £450 £562 £590
England median daily rate £425 £475 £454
% change year-on-year -10.53% +4.63% -10.81%

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 475 493 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.87% 13.14% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 297 433
10th Percentile £242 £330 £393
25th Percentile £365 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 29
10th Percentile £45.00 £51.05 £51.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.49 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.97% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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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 19 December 2025.

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 19 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
Hampshire - 16 £373 - 1
Surrey +3 1 £475 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £300 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £300 -
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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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) GitHub
3 9 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) HBase
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (55.56%) JUnit
2 10 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (38.89%) Gatling
4 6 (33.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.56%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Gradle
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Testing Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Kafka Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Kafka
1 10 (55.56%) Spring
2 8 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Performance Testing
3 9 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 7 (38.89%) Observability
6 6 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
7 5 (27.78%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
7 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
7 5 (27.78%) User Stories
8 4 (22.22%) Agile
8 4 (22.22%) Epics
9 2 (11.11%) Migration
10 1 (5.56%) AI
10 1 (5.56%) Functional Testing
10 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
10 1 (5.56%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) OCP
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Ansible
2 9 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (33.33%) Grafana
3 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 5 (27.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft