JMeter Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 372 368
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 -40
Contract jobs citing JMeter 48 85 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.12% 2.52% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 67 101
10th Percentile £357 £409 £350
25th Percentile £400 £429 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £525
90th Percentile £568 £625 £606
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £499
% change year-on-year -9.36% +2.86% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.64% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

JMeter is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,266 3,372 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.96% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 2,387 3,236
10th Percentile £350 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 179 110
10th Percentile £40.28 £46.30 £37.22
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile £84.25 £77.60 £67.84
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +5.69% +22.14% +11.89%

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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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 +16 19 £425 -19.05% 6
Yorkshire +30 15 £425 -10.53% 2
Midlands +29 10 £525 +10.53% 4
South East 0 10 £425 -4.23% 3
East Midlands +29 9 £525 +23.53% 1
Scotland +35 4 £625 +17.65% 3
North West -4 4 £500 -13.04% 3
South West +16 3 £500 -34.10% 2
Wales +18 2 £363 -42.00% 2
West Midlands +22 1 £525 +7.69% 3
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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 7 (14.58%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) AWS
2 8 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Big Data
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.08%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) Selenium
2 15 (31.25%) Cucumber
2 15 (31.25%) JIRA
3 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
4 9 (18.75%) Git
5 7 (14.58%) LoadRunner
6 5 (10.42%) Gatling
6 5 (10.42%) WebDriver
7 4 (8.33%) SoapUI
8 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 3 (6.25%) JUnit
9 2 (4.17%) Postman
9 2 (4.17%) Zephyr
10 1 (2.08%) Appium
10 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.08%) GitLab
10 1 (2.08%) NeoLoad
10 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
10 1 (2.08%) TestRail
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
1 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Automotive
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Test Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Senior
3 11 (22.92%) Tester
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
6 5 (10.42%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Performance Tester
7 4 (8.33%) Test Analyst
8 3 (6.25%) Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Performance Test Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Test Leader
9 2 (4.17%) Automation Tester
9 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) Kafka
1 7 (14.58%) Web Services
2 5 (10.42%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 4 (8.33%) LDAP
3 4 (8.33%) SOAP
3 4 (8.33%) XML
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) Spring
4 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.08%) ADO
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.08%) Node.js
6 1 (2.08%) Playwright
6 1 (2.08%) Vert.x
6 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) PKI
2 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Mac OS X
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) VMS
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Test Automation
2 21 (43.75%) Agile
3 19 (39.58%) Performance Testing
4 14 (29.17%) Test Scripting
5 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.83%) BDD
6 10 (20.83%) Test Strategy
6 10 (20.83%) User Stories
7 9 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (18.75%) DevOps
8 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
8 8 (16.67%) TDD
9 7 (14.58%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Test Planning
10 6 (12.50%) Analytics
10 6 (12.50%) Test Management
11 5 (10.42%) Non-Functional Testing
11 5 (10.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.33%) C#
4 4 (8.33%) Groovy
4 4 (8.33%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.25%) ISEB
4 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Accessibility
1 7 (14.58%) WCAG
2 5 (10.42%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (4.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) SAP
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) HP
3 1 (2.08%) JDA
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.08%) VMware