JMeter Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 196 196
Rank change year-on-year +43 0 +20
Contract jobs citing JMeter 6 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.16% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.68% 1.66% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 20
10th Percentile - £277 £363
25th Percentile - £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year - -4.23% -4.05%
75th Percentile - £438 £513
90th Percentile - £488 £580
England median daily rate £485 £453 £510
% change year-on-year +7.18% -11.27% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
% 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 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the South East.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the South East

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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 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
Surrey +20 4 - - 2
Thames Valley +40 2 - - 2
Berkshire +29 2 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Mocha
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) WireMock
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Process Management
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 3 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk