JMeter Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache JMeter
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 302 352 377
Rank change year-on-year +50 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing JMeter 34 47 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 2.08% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 66
10th Percentile £365 £357 £408
25th Percentile £413 £400 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £594
90th Percentile £524 £571 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £471 £511
% change year-on-year +0.80% -7.78% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -
UK median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -50.64% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +11 11 £500 +17.65% 5
Midlands +20 8 £455 -13.33% 5
South East +43 6 - - 10
West Midlands +19 6 £472 -10.19% 1
Yorkshire -1 6 £463 +8.82% 2
North West +18 5 £500 - 1
East of England - 5 £600 - 4
Scotland +12 3 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands +3 2 £450 -14.29% 4
South West +44 1 £325 -35.00% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP ERP
1 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 3 (8.82%) BrowserStack
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.88%) NuGet
5 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) Selenium
2 11 (32.35%) LoadRunner
3 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 9 (26.47%) JIRA
4 7 (20.59%) Postman
5 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
5 4 (11.76%) Git
5 4 (11.76%) GitLab
5 4 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 3 (8.82%) JUnit
6 3 (8.82%) NeoLoad
6 3 (8.82%) TestNG
6 3 (8.82%) Travis CI
7 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (5.88%) Gatling
7 2 (5.88%) Mockito
7 2 (5.88%) SoapUI
7 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Tester
2 6 (17.65%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Software Tester
3 4 (11.76%) Test Leader
4 3 (8.82%) Performance Tester
4 3 (8.82%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Camel
2 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.88%) HTML
2 2 (5.88%) jQuery
2 2 (5.88%) JSON
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Playwright
2 2 (5.88%) Spring
2 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.88%) Web Services
2 2 (5.88%) WireMock
2 2 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) FMCG
1 3 (8.82%) Life Science
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Test Automation
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Performance Testing
3 17 (50.00%) DevOps
4 15 (44.12%) Agile
4 15 (44.12%) Test Strategy
5 12 (35.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 12 (35.29%) Validation
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) API Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Data Validation
7 8 (23.53%) Functional Testing
8 7 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Integration Testing
9 6 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Test Scripting
10 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Software Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Test Management
10 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
1 6 (17.65%) Python
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) C#
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) ISTQB
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) CEH
4 3 (8.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (38.24%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) GxP
2 3 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (8.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Kibana
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
4 3 (8.82%) Grafana
5 2 (5.88%) Ansible
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (5.88%) Nintex
5 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.94%) Ariba
5 1 (2.94%) Confluent
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Ingenico
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media