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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 495 453
Rank change year-on-year -13 -42 +50
Contract jobs citing JMeter 161 70 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.57% 1.39% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 49 66
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.79% -7.05%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £588
90th Percentile £579 £620 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +3.06% -17.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £38.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.64%

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 6,271 5,023 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.21% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,390 3,273
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 111 178
10th Percentile £33.74 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.29 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 11 September 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 16 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 11 September 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 -49 129 £475 +7.04% 23
London -35 76 £500 - 15
UK excluding London -69 54 £438 +3.06% 10
Work from Home -53 52 £450 -1.10% 11
North of England -59 20 £411 -3.29% 2
Yorkshire -30 15 £413 -2.94% 1
Midlands -39 15 £525 +16.67%
West Midlands -37 13 £525 +14.13%
South West -42 6 - - 2
South East -54 6 £336 - 6
North West -39 3 £411 +26.46% 1
Wales - 3 £700 -
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -14 2 £428 -4.94%
North East -45 2 £423 -19.52%
East of England -36 1 £367 -8.25%

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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 15 (9.32%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.24%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (38.51%) AWS
2 58 (36.02%) Azure
3 43 (26.71%) GitHub
4 25 (15.53%) GCP
5 22 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.97%) Serverless
8 6 (3.73%) BrowserStack
9 5 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.11%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.86%) Datadog
11 3 (1.86%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.86%) SaaS
12 2 (1.24%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.24%) INAP
2 2 (1.24%) RTP
2 2 (1.24%) tcpdump
2 2 (1.24%) VoIP
2 2 (1.24%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.97%) Tableau
3 6 (3.73%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.86%) Power BI
6 2 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.24%) Big Data
6 2 (1.24%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.24%) Db2
6 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (36.02%) LoadRunner
2 57 (35.40%) Gatling
3 50 (31.06%) Selenium
4 47 (29.19%) Postman
5 43 (26.71%) Jenkins
6 33 (20.50%) GitLab
7 30 (18.63%) Cucumber
8 28 (17.39%) JIRA
9 20 (12.42%) Git
9 20 (12.42%) NeoLoad
10 19 (11.80%) Cypress.io
10 19 (11.80%) REST Assured
11 17 (10.56%) JUnit
12 12 (7.45%) SoapUI
12 12 (7.45%) WebDriver
13 8 (4.97%) TestNG
14 7 (4.35%) eggPlant
14 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
15 6 (3.73%) Maven
15 6 (3.73%) Newman
General
1 35 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.70%) Finance
5 13 (8.07%) Banking
6 5 (3.11%) Retail
7 4 (2.48%) Military
8 2 (1.24%) Billing
8 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Police
8 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Law
9 1 (0.62%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 47 (29.19%) Test Engineer
1 47 (29.19%) Tester
2 35 (21.74%) Senior
3 28 (17.39%) Performance Engineer
4 24 (14.91%) Lead
5 21 (13.04%) Performance Test Engineer
6 18 (11.18%) Senior Test Engineer
7 16 (9.94%) Performance Tester
8 15 (9.32%) Test Automation Engineer
8 15 (9.32%) Test Leader
9 12 (7.45%) Automation Tester
10 11 (6.83%) QA Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Performance Test Leader
12 8 (4.97%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Senior Tester
13 7 (4.35%) Developer
14 6 (3.73%) QA Tester
14 6 (3.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.25%) Playwright
2 27 (16.77%) REST
3 18 (11.18%) Kafka
4 16 (9.94%) .NET
5 14 (8.70%) Web Services
6 11 (6.83%) SOAP
6 11 (6.83%) Spring
6 11 (6.83%) XML
7 10 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (6.21%) WireMock
8 8 (4.97%) pytest
8 8 (4.97%) Swagger
9 7 (4.35%) Middleware
9 7 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (4.35%) RESTful
10 6 (3.73%) HTML
10 6 (3.73%) JSON
10 6 (3.73%) Terraform
11 5 (3.11%) OpenID
12 4 (2.48%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.97%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.86%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) Equities
8 2 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.62%) Contactless
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.59%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Unix
3 3 (1.86%) Windows
4 2 (1.24%) Android
4 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.24%) CentOS
4 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 102 (63.35%) Test Automation
3 96 (59.63%) Performance Testing
4 69 (42.86%) DevOps
5 61 (37.89%) Test Strategy
6 57 (35.40%) Agile
7 42 (26.09%) Non-Functional Testing
8 36 (22.36%) Observability
8 36 (22.36%) Validation
9 30 (18.63%) API Testing
10 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
10 28 (17.39%) Load Testing
10 28 (17.39%) Scenario Testing
11 27 (16.77%) Microservices
12 26 (16.15%) Test Scripting
13 23 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
14 21 (13.04%) AI
14 21 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (12.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (36.65%) Python
2 51 (31.68%) Java
3 42 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.50%) SQL
5 21 (13.04%) C#
6 16 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.07%) Bash
8 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.86%) Cypher
10 3 (1.86%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.24%) Bicep
11 2 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.24%) Ruby
11 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) Groovy
12 1 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 64 (39.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.48%) ISEB
7 3 (1.86%) Degree
8 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.24%) MOS
9 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.95%) QA
2 17 (10.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.48%) WCAG
5 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.86%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.62%) GRC
7 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (27.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.98%) Grafana
3 20 (12.42%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.21%) Ansible
5 7 (4.35%) Kibana
6 5 (3.11%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.48%) Control-M
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) Consul
9 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (19.88%) Dynatrace
2 26 (16.15%) Splunk
3 19 (11.80%) AppDynamics
4 18 (11.18%) New Relic
5 16 (9.94%) IBM
6 13 (8.07%) Oracle
7 9 (5.59%) Google
8 5 (3.11%) Databricks
8 5 (3.11%) SAP
9 4 (2.48%) Informatica
9 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.86%) Charles River
10 3 (1.86%) Micro Focus
10 3 (1.86%) OpenText
11 2 (1.24%) Dialogic
11 2 (1.24%) Foundry
11 2 (1.24%) Metaswitch
11 2 (1.24%) Solace
12 1 (0.62%) Confluent
12 1 (0.62%) Parasoft