JMeter Contract Job Trends in South Wales

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Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.51% - 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.43% - 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £548 - £134
25th Percentile £638 - £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £154
75th Percentile £738 - £158
90th Percentile £745 - £159
Wales median daily rate £675 - £154

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 42 43 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 11.70% 11.35% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 48
10th Percentile £256 £162 £188
25th Percentile £274 £281 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £489 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% -6.01% -8.77%
75th Percentile £527 £544 £623
90th Percentile £720 £550 £657
Wales median daily rate £475 £495 £508
% change year-on-year -4.04% -2.46% -10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £15.20 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £17.82 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +348.93% -31.46% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £21.89 -
90th Percentile - £24.66 -
Wales median hourly rate £55.25 £17.82 £26.00
% change year-on-year +210.04% -31.46% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

JMeter job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Newport - 6 £675 -
Cardiff - 3 £623 - 1
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MSTest
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Architectural Design
3 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 6 (66.67%) Test Strategy
4 5 (55.56%) AI
4 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
5 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (33.33%) Test Management
7 2 (22.22%) BDD
7 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) ETL
7 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) ISTQB
2 5 (55.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft