JMeter Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 305 363
Rank change year-on-year -54 +58 +15
Contract jobs citing JMeter 39 43 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.47% 2.27% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 32
10th Percentile £313 £341 £161
25th Percentile £328 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +11.76% -12.82%
75th Percentile £499 £650 £500
90th Percentile £713 £685 £544
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 2,653 1,896 2,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.48% 13.03% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 1,139 1,639
10th Percentile £319 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £398 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -5.46% -2.29%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 67 177
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £75.10 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JMeter job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter

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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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter

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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 January 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
South East +1 18 £373 -26.96% 8
Wales - 9 £675 - 1
North of England -55 6 £500 +17.65% 7
North East -4 4 £500 +53.85%
East of England -14 4 £450 - 4
Midlands -46 2 £375 +5.63% 1
East Midlands - 2 £375 -
North West -28 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -54 1 - - 6
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
1 17 (43.59%) GitHub
2 14 (35.90%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) AWS
4 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
6 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
7 4 (10.26%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (2.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) HBase
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Cucumber
1 18 (46.15%) Selenium
2 17 (43.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (30.77%) Gatling
4 10 (25.64%) JUnit
4 10 (25.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (17.95%) LoadRunner
5 7 (17.95%) MSTest
6 6 (15.38%) Visual Studio
7 5 (12.82%) GitLab
7 5 (12.82%) JIRA
7 5 (12.82%) Postman
8 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.13%) Git
8 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
8 2 (5.13%) TestRail
8 2 (5.13%) Zephyr
9 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.56%) Gradle
9 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Automation Tester
2 8 (20.51%) Java Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Test Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Tester
3 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Automation Tester
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Tester
5 5 (12.82%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Testing Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Kafka Developer
7 3 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Kafka
1 10 (25.64%) Spring
2 8 (20.51%) Hibernate
3 6 (15.38%) Web Services
4 4 (10.26%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.13%) Playwright
5 2 (5.13%) PySpark
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) ADO
6 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.56%) Taurus
6 1 (2.56%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Test Automation
2 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 21 (53.85%) Agile
4 20 (51.28%) Performance Testing
5 19 (48.72%) DevOps
6 17 (43.59%) Test Strategy
7 12 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (23.08%) AI
8 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (23.08%) Observability
8 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.51%) API Testing
10 7 (17.95%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.95%) Test Management
10 7 (17.95%) Test Scripting
11 6 (15.38%) BDD
11 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
11 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Java
2 13 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (28.21%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (23.08%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) ISTQB
4 5 (12.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (10.26%) Degree
6 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (2.56%) OCP
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 6 (15.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.13%) EU AI Act
4 2 (5.13%) NIST
5 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Ansible
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.08%) Progress Chef
3 7 (17.95%) Grafana
3 7 (17.95%) Terraform
4 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) VMware
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic