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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 420 468
Rank change year-on-year -62 +48 +59
Contract jobs citing JMeter 111 114 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 2.71% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 58 92
10th Percentile £320 £369 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £534 £566 £538
90th Percentile £713 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £483 £425
% change year-on-year -6.83% +13.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 5,470 4,201 5,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.13% 13.61% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,755 2,622 3,797
10th Percentile £344 £338 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 67 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.40 £40.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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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 3 February 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 14 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 3 February 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 -90 83 £425 -10.53% 35
UK excluding London -70 49 £450 -6.83% 25
London -32 41 £434 -8.68% 16
Work from Home -6 38 £430 -5.75% 24
South East -18 18 £373 -26.96% 9
North of England -56 15 £525 +10.53% 6
Wales - 9 £675 - 1
Yorkshire -50 6 £533 +12.11% 4
North West -32 5 £500 - 2
North East -10 4 £500 +53.85%
East of England -15 4 £450 - 5
Midlands -67 3 £381 -0.97% 1
West Midlands -48 2 £450 +16.88% 1
East Midlands - 1 £313 -

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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 2 (1.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (49.55%) Azure
2 44 (39.64%) AWS
3 42 (37.84%) GitHub
4 27 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (23.42%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (21.62%) GCP
7 16 (14.41%) OpenShift
8 10 (9.01%) BlazeMeter
8 10 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.41%) BrowserStack
10 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.50%) Serverless
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (2.70%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.60%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.60%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.70%) MySQL
4 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) HBase
6 1 (0.90%) Looker
6 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (45.05%) Selenium
2 38 (34.23%) Cucumber
3 36 (32.43%) Jenkins
4 34 (30.63%) Gatling
4 34 (30.63%) Postman
5 33 (29.73%) GitLab
6 20 (18.02%) JIRA
7 18 (16.22%) LoadRunner
8 16 (14.41%) JUnit
9 15 (13.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (11.71%) REST Assured
11 11 (9.91%) Git
12 10 (9.01%) MSTest
13 8 (7.21%) Cypress.io
14 7 (6.31%) Locust
14 7 (6.31%) Visual Studio
14 7 (6.31%) WebDriver
15 6 (5.41%) Appium
16 5 (4.50%) NeoLoad
16 5 (4.50%) Newman
General
1 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Finance
2 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.70%) Banking
4 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.80%) Retail
4 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.90%) Military
5 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Tester
2 27 (24.32%) Test Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) Senior
4 20 (18.02%) Automation Tester
5 18 (16.22%) Developer
6 17 (15.32%) Test Automation Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Java Developer
8 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (7.21%) Lead
10 8 (7.21%) Performance Engineer
10 8 (7.21%) Senior Automation Tester
10 8 (7.21%) Senior Tester
11 7 (6.31%) Java Engineer
11 7 (6.31%) Performance Test Engineer
11 7 (6.31%) QA Engineer
12 6 (5.41%) Analyst
12 6 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
13 5 (4.50%) Performance Tester
13 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.52%) REST
2 24 (21.62%) Kafka
3 23 (20.72%) Playwright
4 19 (17.12%) Spring
5 13 (11.71%) Hibernate
6 11 (9.91%) Web Services
7 10 (9.01%) .NET
8 9 (8.11%) Gherkin
8 9 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (8.11%) RESTful
9 6 (5.41%) Middleware
9 6 (5.41%) React
9 6 (5.41%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.50%) gRPC
10 5 (4.50%) JMS
10 5 (4.50%) OpenID
10 5 (4.50%) pytest
10 5 (4.50%) WebSockets
11 4 (3.60%) SailPoint
11 4 (3.60%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.41%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Android
2 4 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (75.68%) Test Automation
2 81 (72.97%) CI/CD
3 67 (60.36%) Performance Testing
4 58 (52.25%) Agile
5 47 (42.34%) DevOps
6 35 (31.53%) Test Strategy
7 34 (30.63%) API Testing
8 29 (26.13%) Non-Functional Testing
9 25 (22.52%) Test Scripting
10 23 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (18.92%) Observability
12 20 (18.02%) AI
13 19 (17.12%) Scrum
13 19 (17.12%) Validation
14 17 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (13.51%) BDD
15 15 (13.51%) Regression Testing
15 15 (13.51%) Security Testing
16 14 (12.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) Java
2 33 (29.73%) Python
3 31 (27.93%) JavaScript
4 20 (18.02%) SQL
5 17 (15.32%) C#
5 17 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.60%) Cypher
6 4 (3.60%) Ruby
6 4 (3.60%) Scala
7 3 (2.70%) Go
8 2 (1.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Korn
9 1 (0.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.12%) ISTQB
4 11 (9.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.31%) Degree
6 6 (5.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.90%) OCP
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (36.04%) QA
2 18 (16.22%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.41%) NIST
5 4 (3.60%) WCAG
6 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.70%) EU AI Act
6 3 (2.70%) GDPR
7 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.90%) NCSC
8 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (26.13%) Kubernetes
2 20 (18.02%) Ansible
3 14 (12.61%) Progress Chef
4 12 (10.81%) Grafana
5 10 (9.01%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.21%) Terraform
7 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.61%) VMware
3 4 (3.60%) Google
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle
3 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.70%) HP
4 3 (2.70%) New Relic
4 3 (2.70%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.80%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.80%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.80%) SAP
6 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.90%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.90%) Confluent
6 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.90%) Workday