JMeter Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Apache JMeter UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	468	484	497
Rank change year-on-year	+16	+13
Contract jobs citing JMeter	135	160	142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.29%	0.30%	0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category	1.64%	1.92%	1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	85	112	85
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£330	£300	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£475	£465
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£345
% change year-on-year	-	+15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£13.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	£13.50

JMeter is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	8215	8328	7455
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	17.55%	15.48%	13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	5625	5734	4920
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£313	£295
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	149	125	122
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.45	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.11%	+14.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£27.50	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.25	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+0.59%	+14.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing JMeter as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JMeter over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter.

Contractor hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+18	131	£425	+1.19%	55
London	+6	70	£488	+16.07%	27
South East	-9	19	£393	-3.38%	4
East of England	+2	13	£425	-10.52%	4
West Midlands	+21	12	£375	-25.00%	2
Berkshire	+24	8	£390	+0.64%
Yorkshire	+20	8	£400	+14.28%	7
West Yorkshire	+17	7	£395	+31.66%	6
North West	+22	6	£405	+3.18%	5
Southend-on-Sea	-	6	£425	-
Essex	-	6	£425	-	1
City of London	-11	5	£500	+29.03%	10
Scotland	+37	4	-	-	2
Glasgow	+9	4	-	-	2
Leeds	+7	4	-	-	6
Cambridgeshire	+6	4	£350	-17.64%	2
Merseyside	+2	4	£405	+29.60%	1
Croydon	-12	4	£450	+18.42%
Liverpool	-	4	£405	-
Bracknell	-	4	£450	-
Kent	-	4	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	4	£401	-	1
Reading	+14	3	£338	-15.62%
South West	+1	3	£433	+19.31%	3
Hertfordshire	-4	3	£350	-26.31%
Osterley	-	3	£500	-
Manchester	+13	2	£394	-	2
Warwickshire	+9	2	£400	-
Shropshire	-	2	£510	-
Buckinghamshire	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JMeter also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for JMeter.

1	160 (59.04%)	Selenium
2	153 (56.46%)	Agile Software Development
2	153 (56.46%)	Test Automation
3	138 (50.92%)	Java
4	110 (40.59%)	JIRA
5	101 (37.27%)	Cucumber
6	99 (36.53%)	Jenkins
7	91 (33.58%)	Performance Testing
8	78 (28.78%)	LoadRunner
9	77 (28.41%)	BDD
10	75 (27.68%)	QA
11	66 (24.35%)	TDD
12	65 (23.99%)	Continuous Integration
13	62 (22.88%)	Scrum
14	61 (22.51%)	SoapUI

15	60 (22.14%)	SQL
16	58 (21.40%)	Git (software)
17	56 (20.66%)	Finance
18	51 (18.82%)	Confluence
19	50 (18.45%)	Test Scripting
20	49 (18.08%)	Linux
21	46 (16.97%)	Web Services
21	46 (16.97%)	WebDriver
22	45 (16.61%)	ISTQB
23	44 (16.24%)	Test Strategy
24	42 (15.50%)	REST
24	42 (15.50%)	Amazon AWS
24	42 (15.50%)	Maven
24	42 (15.50%)	HP
25	41 (15.13%)	JavaScript

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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	51 (18.82%)	Confluence
2	21 (7.75%)	Tomcat
3	18 (6.64%)	Cloud Foundry
4	17 (6.27%)	CMS
5	15 (5.54%)	Apache
6	14 (5.17%)	Sitecore CMS
7	10 (3.69%)	Anypoint
8	8 (2.95%)	WebLogic
9	6 (2.21%)	nginx
9	6 (2.21%)	WebSphere
10	4 (1.48%)	Elasticsearch
11	3 (1.11%)	IIS
11	3 (1.11%)	JBoss
12	2 (0.74%)	Documentum
12	2 (0.74%)	Drupal
13	1 (0.37%)	Apache Spark
13	1 (0.37%)	Mule

Applications
1	2 (0.74%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.37%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	1 (0.37%)	Dynamics CRM
1	1 (0.37%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	42 (15.50%)	Amazon AWS
2	27 (9.96%)	GitHub
3	18 (6.64%)	Microsoft Azure
4	13 (4.80%)	PaaS
5	6 (2.21%)	Datadog
6	3 (1.11%)	BrowserStack
6	3 (1.11%)	OpenShift
7	2 (0.74%)	Amazon EC2
7	2 (0.74%)	Amazon S3
7	2 (0.74%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7	2 (0.74%)	Azure Active Directory
7	2 (0.74%)	Google Analytics
7	2 (0.74%)	IaaS
7	2 (0.74%)	Loggly
7	2 (0.74%)	SaaS
7	2 (0.74%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	1 (0.37%)	Dynamics 365

Communications & Networking
1	30 (11.07%)	HTTP
2	15 (5.54%)	Internet
3	7 (2.58%)	LDAP
4	2 (0.74%)	Firewall
5	1 (0.37%)	Kerberos
5	1 (0.37%)	OpenLDAP
5	1 (0.37%)	SMS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	22 (8.12%)	MongoDB
2	19 (7.01%)	SQL Server
3	16 (5.90%)	Redis
4	14 (5.17%)	MySQL
5	9 (3.32%)	Apache Cassandra
6	7 (2.58%)	PostgreSQL
7	5 (1.85%)	NoSQL
8	4 (1.48%)	Relational Database
9	3 (1.11%)	DB2
9	3 (1.11%)	Hazelcast
9	3 (1.11%)	HBase
9	3 (1.11%)	InterSystems Cache
10	2 (0.74%)	Hadoop
10	2 (0.74%)	Informix
10	2 (0.74%)	MariaDB
10	2 (0.74%)	RDBMS
10	2 (0.74%)	Sybase ASE
11	1 (0.37%)	Big Data
11	1 (0.37%)	Oracle Database
11	1 (0.37%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	160 (59.04%)	Selenium
2	110 (40.59%)	JIRA
3	101 (37.27%)	Cucumber
4	99 (36.53%)	Jenkins
5	78 (28.78%)	LoadRunner
6	61 (22.51%)	SoapUI
7	58 (21.40%)	Git (software)
8	46 (16.97%)	WebDriver
9	42 (15.50%)	Maven
10	38 (14.02%)	Gatling
11	37 (13.65%)	JUnit
12	34 (12.55%)	Bitbucket
13	29 (10.70%)	Gradle
14	25 (9.23%)	TeamCity
15	23 (8.49%)	Ant
16	19 (7.01%)	Hudson
17	17 (6.27%)	LoadUI
18	15 (5.54%)	HP UFT
19	14 (5.17%)	Apache Ivy
19	14 (5.17%)	eggPlant

General
1	56 (20.66%)	Finance
2	25 (9.23%)	Banking
3	14 (5.17%)	Retail
4	8 (2.95%)	Retail Banking
5	7 (2.58%)	Investment Banking
5	7 (2.58%)	Marketing
6	6 (2.21%)	Games
7	5 (1.85%)	Telecoms
8	2 (0.74%)	German Language
8	2 (0.74%)	Manufacturing
9	1 (0.37%)	Back Office
9	1 (0.37%)	Electronics
9	1 (0.37%)	iGaming
9	1 (0.37%)	Private Banking
9	1 (0.37%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	75 (27.68%)	Tester
2	61 (22.51%)	Analyst
3	56 (20.66%)	Test Analyst
4	35 (12.92%)	Developer
5	31 (11.44%)	Automation Tester
6	30 (11.07%)	Performance Tester
7	26 (9.59%)	Test Engineer
8	20 (7.38%)	Performance Engineer
9	19 (7.01%)	DevOps Engineer
10	18 (6.64%)	Java Developer
11	17 (6.27%)	Performance Analyst
11	17 (6.27%)	Performance Test Analyst
12	15 (5.54%)	Automation Test Analyst
12	15 (5.54%)	Operations Engineer
13	13 (4.80%)	Java Engineer
13	13 (4.80%)	Platform Engineer
13	13 (4.80%)	QA Engineer
14	12 (4.43%)	Test Leader
15	10 (3.69%)	Developer in Test
16	9 (3.32%)	Performance Test Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	46 (16.97%)	Web Services
2	42 (15.50%)	REST
3	36 (13.28%)	JSON
4	34 (12.55%)	SOAP
5	33 (12.18%)	XML
6	26 (9.59%)	HTML
7	23 (8.49%)	Spring
8	17 (6.27%)	Node.js
9	16 (5.90%)	Spring Boot
10	14 (5.17%)	React
11	12 (4.43%)	J2EE
11	12 (4.43%)	RESTful
12	10 (3.69%)	Gherkin
13	9 (3.32%)	Elastic Stack
14	8 (2.95%)	Ajax
14	8 (2.95%)	CSS
15	7 (2.58%)	.NET
15	7 (2.58%)	Express
15	7 (2.58%)	ODBC
15	7 (2.58%)	SAML

Miscellaneous
1	28 (10.33%)	Analytical Skills
2	15 (5.54%)	Client/Server
3	7 (2.58%)	Mobile App
4	6 (2.21%)	Computer Science
5	5 (1.85%)	Mainframe
6	4 (1.48%)	Data Centre
7	3 (1.11%)	Greenfield Project
7	3 (1.11%)	Mobile Banking
7	3 (1.11%)	User Experience
8	2 (0.74%)	NHS
9	1 (0.37%)	Data Structures
9	1 (0.37%)	Enterprise Software
9	1 (0.37%)	Linux Command Line
9	1 (0.37%)	N-Tier
9	1 (0.37%)	Reference Data
9	1 (0.37%)	Virtual Team
9	1 (0.37%)	W3C
9	1 (0.37%)	Wiki

Operating Systems
1	49 (18.08%)	Linux
2	25 (9.23%)	Windows
3	19 (7.01%)	Unix
4	2 (0.74%)	Solaris
5	1 (0.37%)	Android
5	1 (0.37%)	Apple iOS
5	1 (0.37%)	Kali Linux
5	1 (0.37%)	Mac OS X
5	1 (0.37%)	OpenVMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	153 (56.46%)	Agile Software Development
1	153 (56.46%)	Test Automation
2	91 (33.58%)	Performance Testing
3	77 (28.41%)	BDD
4	66 (24.35%)	TDD
5	65 (23.99%)	Continuous Integration
6	62 (22.88%)	Scrum
7	50 (18.45%)	Test Scripting
8	44 (16.24%)	Test Strategy
9	34 (12.55%)	DevOps
10	32 (11.81%)	SDLC
11	29 (10.70%)	User Stories
12	28 (10.33%)	Software Testing
13	27 (9.96%)	Scenario Testing
14	26 (9.59%)	Non-Functional Testing
15	25 (9.23%)	Microservices
16	23 (8.49%)	API Testing
16	23 (8.49%)	Continuous Delivery
17	21 (7.75%)	Kanban
17	21 (7.75%)	Manual Testing

Programming Languages
1	138 (50.92%)	Java
2	60 (22.14%)	SQL
3	41 (15.13%)	JavaScript
4	37 (13.65%)	Python
5	30 (11.07%)	C#
5	30 (11.07%)	Ruby
6	24 (8.86%)	Groovy
7	15 (5.54%)	C
8	12 (4.43%)	Bash Shell
8	12 (4.43%)	PHP
9	8 (2.95%)	Scala
10	6 (2.21%)	Perl
11	5 (1.85%)	C++
12	4 (1.48%)	PL/SQL
13	2 (0.74%)	AWK
13	2 (0.74%)	PowerShell
13	2 (0.74%)	Shell Script
13	2 (0.74%)	T-SQL
13	2 (0.74%)	VB
14	1 (0.37%)	Clojure

Qualifications
1	45 (16.61%)	ISTQB
2	28 (10.33%)	ISEB
2	28 (10.33%)	Security Cleared
3	20 (7.38%)	SC Cleared
4	12 (4.43%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	7 (2.58%)	Degree
6	4 (1.48%)	Computer Science Degree
7	3 (1.11%)	BPSS Clearance
8	2 (0.74%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification
9	1 (0.37%)	DV Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	75 (27.68%)	QA
2	5 (1.85%)	Data Quality
3	4 (1.48%)	Disclosure Scotland

System Software
1	25 (9.23%)	Docker
2	5 (1.85%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	2 (0.74%)	Active Directory
3	2 (0.74%)	Hyper-V
3	2 (0.74%)	KVM
3	2 (0.74%)	LXC
4	1 (0.37%)	Apache Flume

Systems Management
1	21 (7.75%)	Ansible
2	17 (6.27%)	Opscode Chef
3	16 (5.90%)	HP Quality Center
4	12 (4.43%)	Grafana
4	12 (4.43%)	Puppet
5	11 (4.06%)	Graphite
5	11 (4.06%)	Nagios
6	10 (3.69%)	ZABBIX
7	9 (3.32%)	HP Fortify
7	9 (3.32%)	HP SiteScope
8	6 (2.21%)	Kibana
9	4 (1.48%)	Kubernetes
9	4 (1.48%)	logstash
9	4 (1.48%)	Rancher
10	3 (1.11%)	Perfmon
11	2 (0.74%)	Ambari
11	2 (0.74%)	Forefront Identity Manager
11	2 (0.74%)	OpenAM
11	2 (0.74%)	SCOrch
12	1 (0.37%)	HAProxy

Vendors
1	42 (15.50%)	HP
2	38 (14.02%)	Splunk
3	22 (8.12%)	Oracle
4	20 (7.38%)	AppDynamics
5	17 (6.27%)	New Relic
6	14 (5.17%)	MuleSoft
6	14 (5.17%)	Sitecore
7	12 (4.43%)	Dynatrace
8	10 (3.69%)	SOASTA, Inc
9	6 (2.21%)	Microsoft
10	5 (1.85%)	ATG
10	5 (1.85%)	hybris
10	5 (1.85%)	VMware
11	4 (1.48%)	Atlassian
11	4 (1.48%)	Google
11	4 (1.48%)	IBM
12	3 (1.11%)	BMC
12	3 (1.11%)	Perforce
12	3 (1.11%)	Sybase
13	2 (0.74%)	Sun