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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 158 190
Rank change year-on-year -52 +32 +12
Contract jobs citing JMeter 8 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.50% 1.03% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £286 - £310
25th Percentile £291 - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.03%
75th Percentile £319 - £513
90th Percentile £353 - £591
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
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 533 387 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.41% 11.91% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 253 352
10th Percentile £285 £332 £325
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £614
90th Percentile £668 £611 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 26 42
10th Percentile £54.62 £47.50 £44.67
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £55.87
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £74.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +5.69%

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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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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 4 July 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
Surrey -23 3 £313 -
Berkshire -26 3 £375 - 1
Thames Valley -42 3 £375 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £294 -
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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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (25.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (25.00%) Db2
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (37.50%) Gatling
2 3 (37.50%) NeoLoad
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Performance Tester
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Redux
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Runbook
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Volume Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (62.50%) AppDynamics
3 2 (25.00%) Solace
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Parasoft