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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 169 211
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 +20
Contract jobs citing JMeter 9 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 1.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £302 £413 £383
25th Percentile £320 £434 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £523 £570
Median % change year-on-year -29.19% -8.33% +3.64%
75th Percentile £388 £586 £575
90th Percentile £445 £594 £585
England median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 435 525 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.52% 12.58% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 319 477
10th Percentile £260 £338 £388
25th Percentile £366 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -10.38% -1.17%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £613
90th Percentile £628 £650 £654
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 36
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.53 £46.30
25th Percentile £50.50 £55.87 £52.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £65.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% +13.91% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £74.88 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 November 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 1 November 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 +11 9 £370 -35.65% 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) HBase
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Cucumber
2 5 (55.56%) Gatling
2 5 (55.56%) JUnit
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (44.44%) LoadRunner
4 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) Gradle
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Testing Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Performance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware