JMeter Contract Job Trends

Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 427 451
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 +82
Contract jobs citing JMeter 153 104 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 2.57% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 55 99
10th Percentile £320 £343 £345
25th Percentile £369 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £798 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £483 £425
% change year-on-year -6.83% +13.65% -15.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,819 4,048 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 13.81% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,684 3,558
10th Percentile £340 £335 £356
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 67 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.34 £37.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 March 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
England -74 118 £425 -12.82% 30
UK excluding London -32 88 £450 -6.83% 32
Work from Home -11 52 £425 -2.86% 23
London -50 47 £445 -8.72% 10
Midlands -46 24 £425 -12.01% 7
West Midlands -44 22 £425 -12.01% 6
South East -35 20 £345 -39.47% 7
Wales - 18 £485 - 6
North of England -60 14 £513 +7.89% 5
East of England -18 6 £450 -
South West -18 6 £450 - 3
Yorkshire -60 6 £533 +12.11% 1
North East -8 4 £475 +46.15% 2
North West -36 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 1

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (14.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (54.25%) Azure
2 62 (40.52%) AWS
3 60 (39.22%) GitHub
4 42 (27.45%) GCP
5 35 (22.88%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.84%) OpenShift
8 9 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (5.88%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.92%) BrowserStack
10 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.96%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.96%) SaaS
12 2 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.65%) Cloud Functions
13 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.65%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.30%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.61%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.96%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.31%) MySQL
6 2 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.65%) Big Data
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) HBase
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (44.44%) Selenium
2 48 (31.37%) Cucumber
2 48 (31.37%) Gatling
3 46 (30.07%) Jenkins
4 42 (27.45%) GitLab
5 40 (26.14%) JIRA
6 37 (24.18%) Postman
7 32 (20.92%) LoadRunner
8 31 (20.26%) JUnit
9 27 (17.65%) Git
10 22 (14.38%) WebDriver
11 17 (11.11%) REST Assured
12 16 (10.46%) MSTest
13 12 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (7.19%) Visual Studio
15 7 (4.58%) Appium
15 7 (4.58%) Cypress.io
16 5 (3.27%) Newman
16 5 (3.27%) Zephyr
17 4 (2.61%) NeoLoad
General
1 49 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.84%) Finance
5 8 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.31%) Military
7 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.65%) Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (32.03%) Tester
2 39 (25.49%) Senior
3 33 (21.57%) Test Engineer
4 30 (19.61%) Automation Tester
5 23 (15.03%) Lead
6 20 (13.07%) Senior Tester
7 17 (11.11%) Performance Engineer
7 17 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
8 16 (10.46%) Senior Automation Tester
9 14 (9.15%) Developer
9 14 (9.15%) Test Leader
10 12 (7.84%) Performance Tester
10 12 (7.84%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (7.19%) Performance Test Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.23%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
14 7 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.26%) Spring
2 23 (15.03%) REST
3 22 (14.38%) Playwright
4 21 (13.73%) Kafka
5 16 (10.46%) Web Services
6 15 (9.80%) WireMock
7 10 (6.54%) Gherkin
8 9 (5.88%) Hibernate
8 9 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (5.23%) .NET
9 8 (5.23%) RESTful
10 7 (4.58%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.27%) gRPC
11 5 (3.27%) JMS
11 5 (3.27%) JSON
11 5 (3.27%) Middleware
11 5 (3.27%) OpenID
11 5 (3.27%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.27%) WebSockets
12 4 (2.61%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.84%) Distributed Architecture
4 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.61%) NHS
7 3 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Android
2 4 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (72.55%) Test Automation
2 109 (71.24%) CI/CD
3 90 (58.82%) Performance Testing
4 81 (52.94%) Agile
5 59 (38.56%) Test Strategy
6 58 (37.91%) DevOps
7 42 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (25.49%) API Testing
8 39 (25.49%) Non-Functional Testing
9 36 (23.53%) Observability
10 35 (22.88%) Validation
11 30 (19.61%) Load Testing
12 28 (18.30%) BDD
13 27 (17.65%) Microservices
14 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (16.34%) Test Scripting
15 21 (13.73%) AI
15 21 (13.73%) Containerisation
15 21 (13.73%) TDD
16 20 (13.07%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.37%) Java
2 41 (26.80%) Python
3 36 (23.53%) SQL
4 34 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.38%) C#
6 15 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.61%) Cypher
7 4 (2.61%) Ruby
7 4 (2.61%) Scala
7 4 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.96%) Go
8 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.31%) Bash
9 2 (1.31%) Bicep
9 2 (1.31%) C
9 2 (1.31%) Groovy
9 2 (1.31%) VB
10 1 (0.65%) Korn
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.03%) ISTQB
4 13 (8.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (4.58%) Degree
6 5 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) ISEB
8 1 (0.65%) OCP
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.14%) QA
2 17 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 12 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.96%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.31%) SLA
6 2 (1.31%) WCAG
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (31.37%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (30.07%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.26%) Grafana
3 23 (15.03%) Prometheus
4 16 (10.46%) Ansible
5 10 (6.54%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.23%) Terraform
7 3 (1.96%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (1.31%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Dynatrace
3 10 (6.54%) AppDynamics
3 10 (6.54%) New Relic
3 10 (6.54%) VMware
4 8 (5.23%) Google
5 7 (4.58%) Splunk
6 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.27%) Oracle
8 4 (2.61%) SAP
9 3 (1.96%) HP
9 3 (1.96%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.31%) Confluent
10 2 (1.31%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.31%) OpenText
10 2 (1.31%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.65%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.65%) Citrix
11 1 (0.65%) IBM
11 1 (0.65%) Ingenico