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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 418 485
Rank change year-on-year -75 +67 +48
Contract jobs citing JMeter 120 114 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.15% 2.69% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 92
10th Percentile £320 £379 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £518
90th Percentile £656 £654 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £492 £425
% change year-on-year -8.44% +15.65% -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 5,594 4,241 5,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.98% 13.69% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,822 2,693 3,731
10th Percentile £343 £338 £363
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 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 67 210
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.85 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.25 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.08 £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 13 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 13 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 -92 90 £425 -10.53% 22
UK excluding London -62 55 £450 -8.44% 19
London -33 45 £432 -9.05% 9
Work from Home -5 39 £450 -1.37% 18
South East -28 18 £373 -34.65% 9
North of England -55 15 £525 +10.53% 4
Wales - 12 £585 - 1
Midlands -63 6 £425 +10.39% 1
Yorkshire -63 6 £533 +12.11% 1
North East -9 5 £500 +53.85% 1
East of England -19 4 £450 - 2
North West -34 4 £500 - 2
West Midlands -58 4 £450 +16.88% 1
East Midlands - 2 £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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.67%) Azure
2 46 (38.33%) AWS
3 45 (37.50%) GitHub
4 29 (24.17%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (24.17%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (20.83%) GCP
6 16 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.33%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.83%) BrowserStack
10 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.50%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.50%) Serverless
12 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) HTTP
1 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.33%) Neo4j
3 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.50%) MySQL
4 3 (2.50%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.83%) HBase
Development Applications
1 52 (43.33%) Selenium
2 40 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 39 (32.50%) Gatling
3 39 (32.50%) Jenkins
4 37 (30.83%) Postman
5 36 (30.00%) GitLab
6 24 (20.00%) JIRA
7 19 (15.83%) JUnit
7 19 (15.83%) LoadRunner
8 16 (13.33%) REST Assured
9 15 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (10.00%) Git
11 10 (8.33%) MSTest
12 8 (6.67%) WebDriver
13 7 (5.83%) Locust
13 7 (5.83%) Visual Studio
14 6 (5.00%) Appium
14 6 (5.00%) Cypress.io
15 5 (4.17%) NeoLoad
15 5 (4.17%) Newman
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.67%) Retail
5 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Military
6 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (28.33%) Tester
2 28 (23.33%) Test Engineer
3 22 (18.33%) Automation Tester
3 22 (18.33%) Senior
4 17 (14.17%) Test Automation Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Java Developer
7 12 (10.00%) Lead
8 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (7.50%) Performance Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Performance Tester
9 8 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
9 8 (6.67%) Senior Tester
10 7 (5.83%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Analyst
11 6 (5.00%) QA Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.67%) REST
2 24 (20.00%) Kafka
3 23 (19.17%) Playwright
4 19 (15.83%) Spring
5 13 (10.83%) Hibernate
6 11 (9.17%) Web Services
7 10 (8.33%) Gherkin
8 9 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (6.67%) .NET
10 7 (5.83%) RESTful
11 6 (5.00%) Middleware
11 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
12 5 (4.17%) gRPC
12 5 (4.17%) JMS
12 5 (4.17%) OpenID
12 5 (4.17%) WebSockets
13 4 (3.33%) JSON
13 4 (3.33%) LDAP
13 4 (3.33%) Swagger
13 4 (3.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Android
2 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (75.83%) Test Automation
2 86 (71.67%) CI/CD
3 73 (60.83%) Performance Testing
4 65 (54.17%) Agile
5 49 (40.83%) DevOps
6 40 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 36 (30.00%) API Testing
8 34 (28.33%) Non-Functional Testing
9 28 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (22.50%) Test Scripting
11 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (18.33%) Observability
13 20 (16.67%) Scrum
13 20 (16.67%) Validation
14 19 (15.83%) AI
15 16 (13.33%) BDD
15 16 (13.33%) Functional Testing
15 16 (13.33%) Regression Testing
16 15 (12.50%) Containerisation
16 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (41.67%) Java
2 34 (28.33%) Python
3 29 (24.17%) JavaScript
4 21 (17.50%) SQL
5 17 (14.17%) C#
6 16 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.33%) Cypher
7 4 (3.33%) Ruby
7 4 (3.33%) Scala
8 3 (2.50%) Go
9 2 (1.67%) Bash
9 2 (1.67%) Bicep
9 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.67%) VB
10 1 (0.83%) C
10 1 (0.83%) Korn
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.50%) ISTQB
3 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (6.67%) Degree
6 6 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.83%) OCP
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (33.33%) QA
2 17 (14.17%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.00%) NIST
5 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.50%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.67%) GDPR
6 2 (1.67%) SLA
6 2 (1.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (24.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.67%) Ansible
3 14 (11.67%) Progress Chef
4 12 (10.00%) Grafana
5 10 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.67%) Terraform
7 3 (2.50%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.67%) VMware
3 5 (4.17%) Google
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle
3 5 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.33%) HP
5 3 (2.50%) New Relic
5 3 (2.50%) Optimizely
5 3 (2.50%) SAP
6 2 (1.67%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.83%) Confluent
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Workday