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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 172 202
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +27
Contract jobs citing JMeter 3 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.086% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.77% 1.81% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £297 £385
25th Percentile £368 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £463 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% -18.86% +23.24%
75th Percentile £403 £563 £575
90th Percentile - £594 £585
England median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
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 391 553 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.21% 11.96% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 351 457
10th Percentile £274 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £399 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £615 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 40
10th Percentile - £45.74 £47.66
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.91%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.00 £75.00
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 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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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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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 18 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
Thames Valley +15 2 - - 3
Berkshire +13 2 - - 2
Hampshire +11 1 £385 -33.04% 3
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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 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Mockito
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Camel
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) WireMock
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Process Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware