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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 446 516
Rank change year-on-year -32 +70 +57
Contract jobs citing JMeter 92 112 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.72% 2.33% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 58 93
10th Percentile £316 £363 £310
25th Percentile £363 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £647 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.76% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 5,345 4,801 6,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.46% 13.15% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,672 3,011 4,213
10th Percentile £328 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -1.98%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £681 £723 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.89% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 137 237
10th Percentile £20.03 £25.12 £45.37
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.00 £74.00 £87.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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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 5 November 2025.

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 13 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 5 November 2025. 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 -36 70 £425 -10.53% 134
UK excluding London -40 41 £380 -20.00% 131
Work from Home +8 39 £463 -17.78% 118
London -6 37 £523 +8.52% 53
North of England -34 13 £425 -10.53% 20
South East 0 12 £345 -39.47% 71
Wales +11 9 £675 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire -23 8 £425 -10.53% 5
East of England -10 5 £300 - 19
North East -8 3 £525 +61.54% 9
East Midlands -13 2 £375 +3.45% 4
North West -26 2 £325 -31.58% 7
Midlands -31 2 £375 +4.53% 6

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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 3 (3.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 47 (51.09%) Azure
2 32 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (31.52%) GitHub
4 27 (29.35%) AWS
5 18 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (15.22%) GCP
6 14 (15.22%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.78%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (9.78%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (5.43%) Serverless
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.35%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.35%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (4.35%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.26%) BrowserStack
10 3 (3.26%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.43%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.17%) MySQL
7 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.09%) Big Data
8 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.09%) HBase
8 1 (1.09%) Looker
8 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (53.26%) Selenium
2 35 (38.04%) Cucumber
3 32 (34.78%) Jenkins
4 26 (28.26%) Gatling
5 25 (27.17%) GitLab
6 24 (26.09%) Postman
7 23 (25.00%) JUnit
8 16 (17.39%) Cypress.io
9 15 (16.30%) REST Assured
10 14 (15.22%) LoadRunner
11 11 (11.96%) JIRA
11 11 (11.96%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (10.87%) Git
12 10 (10.87%) MSTest
13 9 (9.78%) TestNG
14 8 (8.70%) Locust
15 7 (7.61%) Maven
15 7 (7.61%) Visual Studio
16 5 (5.43%) Appium
16 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (20.65%) Finance
2 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
7 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Test Engineer
1 21 (22.83%) Tester
2 19 (20.65%) Developer
2 19 (20.65%) Senior
3 17 (18.48%) Automation Tester
4 13 (14.13%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.04%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Automation Tester
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Tester
7 7 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Performance Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Performance Test Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.09%) Playwright
2 22 (23.91%) REST
3 21 (22.83%) Kafka
4 17 (18.48%) Spring
5 12 (13.04%) Web Services
6 11 (11.96%) Hibernate
6 11 (11.96%) RESTful
7 10 (10.87%) JSON
8 9 (9.78%) .NET
9 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
10 6 (6.52%) HTML
10 6 (6.52%) JMS
10 6 (6.52%) Middleware
10 6 (6.52%) pytest
10 6 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.43%) Gherkin
11 5 (5.43%) gRPC
11 5 (5.43%) WebSockets
12 4 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (82.61%) Test Automation
2 64 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 50 (54.35%) Performance Testing
4 45 (48.91%) DevOps
5 44 (47.83%) Agile
6 34 (36.96%) Test Strategy
7 32 (34.78%) API Testing
8 23 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 20 (21.74%) AI
10 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (19.57%) BDD
12 17 (18.48%) Observability
13 16 (17.39%) Machine Learning
14 15 (16.30%) Validation
15 14 (15.22%) Test Scripting
16 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (14.13%) Microservices
17 12 (13.04%) Software Testing
17 12 (13.04%) TDD
18 10 (10.87%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.48%) Java
2 33 (35.87%) Python
3 28 (30.43%) JavaScript
4 19 (20.65%) C#
5 17 (18.48%) SQL
6 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.17%) PHP
9 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.09%) Bash
9 1 (1.09%) C
9 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) ISTQB
4 10 (10.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (7.61%) Degree
6 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.09%) OCP
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (33.70%) QA
2 13 (14.13%) Accessibility
3 10 (10.87%) WCAG
4 7 (7.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.26%) EU AI Act
5 3 (3.26%) GDPR
5 3 (3.26%) NIST
6 1 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (33.70%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.48%) Ansible
3 11 (11.96%) Progress Chef
3 11 (11.96%) Terraform
4 7 (7.61%) Grafana
5 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.09%) Kibana
6 1 (1.09%) logstash
6 1 (1.09%) Puppet
6 1 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (10.87%) VMware
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle
4 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.17%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.09%) HP
6 1 (1.09%) Ingenico
6 1 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.09%) New Relic
6 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) UiPath