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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 452 509
Rank change year-on-year -36 +57 +43
Contract jobs citing JMeter 96 109 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.75% 2.29% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 50 92
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -13.68% +11.76% -13.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 5,478 4,752 6,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 13.04% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,779 2,943 4,190
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 121 226
10th Percentile £29.50 £33.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.44 £87.66
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 29 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 29 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 -43 74 £425 -10.53% 12
London +6 41 £479 +0.79% 5
UK excluding London -33 40 £410 -13.68% 14
Work from Home +13 35 £475 -5.00% 5
South East +14 18 £373 -21.58% 7
Wales - 9 £675 - 1
North of England -40 7 £475 +11.76% 2
North East -3 4 £500 +53.85%
East of England -13 4 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -30 2 £425 -5.56% 2
Midlands -42 2 £375 +5.63%
East Midlands - 2 £375 -
North West - 1 - -

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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 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (48.96%) Azure
2 33 (34.38%) GitHub
3 32 (33.33%) AWS
4 31 (32.29%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (23.96%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (18.75%) OpenShift
7 14 (14.58%) GCP
8 9 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.29%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (5.21%) Serverless
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.17%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.17%) Vertex AI
12 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (3.13%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.21%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) MySQL
5 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.04%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.04%) HBase
6 1 (1.04%) Looker
6 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (46.88%) Selenium
2 35 (36.46%) Cucumber
3 32 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 27 (28.13%) Gatling
5 23 (23.96%) GitLab
5 23 (23.96%) JUnit
6 18 (18.75%) Postman
7 15 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (14.58%) JIRA
9 13 (13.54%) LoadRunner
10 11 (11.46%) Git
11 10 (10.42%) MSTest
11 10 (10.42%) REST Assured
12 9 (9.38%) Cypress.io
13 8 (8.33%) Locust
14 7 (7.29%) Visual Studio
15 6 (6.25%) Appium
16 5 (5.21%) SonarQube
17 4 (4.17%) Snyk
17 4 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (23.96%) Finance
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Developer
2 21 (21.88%) Tester
3 19 (19.79%) Test Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) Automation Tester
5 17 (17.71%) Java Developer
5 17 (17.71%) Senior
6 14 (14.58%) Test Automation Engineer
7 11 (11.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Senior Automation Tester
9 8 (8.33%) Senior Tester
10 7 (7.29%) Analyst
10 7 (7.29%) Java Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Performance Test Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) QA Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.00%) Kafka
2 23 (23.96%) REST
3 20 (20.83%) Spring
4 19 (19.79%) Playwright
5 14 (14.58%) Hibernate
6 13 (13.54%) Web Services
7 11 (11.46%) .NET
7 11 (11.46%) JSON
8 10 (10.42%) RESTful
9 7 (7.29%) HTML
9 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
10 6 (6.25%) Gherkin
10 6 (6.25%) JMS
10 6 (6.25%) Middleware
10 6 (6.25%) pytest
10 6 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.21%) CSS
11 5 (5.21%) gRPC
11 5 (5.21%) WebSockets
12 4 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Android
2 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.13%) Test Automation
2 68 (70.83%) CI/CD
3 60 (62.50%) Performance Testing
4 46 (47.92%) Agile
4 46 (47.92%) DevOps
5 32 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 25 (26.04%) API Testing
7 21 (21.88%) AI
7 21 (21.88%) Non-Functional Testing
7 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (20.83%) Test Scripting
9 18 (18.75%) Observability
10 17 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 16 (16.67%) Validation
12 14 (14.58%) BDD
12 14 (14.58%) Regression Testing
13 13 (13.54%) SDET
13 13 (13.54%) Software Testing
14 12 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) Java
2 34 (35.42%) Python
3 29 (30.21%) JavaScript
4 18 (18.75%) C#
4 18 (18.75%) SQL
5 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.04%) Bash
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) C
8 1 (1.04%) Korn
8 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.58%) ISTQB
4 10 (10.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (7.29%) Degree
6 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.04%) OCP
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (37.50%) QA
2 10 (10.42%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.17%) WCAG
5 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.13%) EU AI Act
5 3 (3.13%) GDPR
5 3 (3.13%) NIST
6 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (27.08%) Docker
2 7 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.88%) Ansible
3 15 (15.63%) Progress Chef
4 12 (12.50%) Terraform
5 8 (8.33%) Grafana
6 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.04%) Kibana
7 1 (1.04%) logstash
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) VMware
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) New Relic
5 2 (2.08%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.04%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) UiPath