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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 467 509
Rank change year-on-year -16 +42 +25
Contract jobs citing JMeter 98 97 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 2.12% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 46 82
10th Percentile £313 £363 £308
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - -5.99%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -13.68% +11.76% -12.57%
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 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -51 74 £425 -10.53% 11
London -7 41 £520 +6.67% 5
UK excluding London -47 40 £410 -13.68% 12
Work from Home +33 38 £475 +2.70% 9
South East +13 18 £373 -21.58% 5
Wales - 9 £675 -
North of England -36 7 £475 +5.56% 2
North East -7 4 £500 +53.85% 1
East of England -20 4 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -46 2 £425 -5.56% 1
Midlands -48 2 £375 +5.63%
East Midlands - 2 £375 -
North West -20 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 (3.06%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.98%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) GitHub
3 33 (33.67%) AWS
4 32 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (25.51%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (18.37%) OpenShift
7 14 (14.29%) GCP
8 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
9 9 (9.18%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
11 6 (6.12%) Serverless
12 5 (5.10%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
13 4 (4.08%) Vertex AI
14 3 (3.06%) BrowserStack
14 3 (3.06%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.08%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) MySQL
6 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.02%) HBase
7 1 (1.02%) Looker
7 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (44.90%) Selenium
2 34 (34.69%) Cucumber
3 33 (33.67%) Jenkins
4 30 (30.61%) Gatling
5 23 (23.47%) GitLab
5 23 (23.47%) JUnit
6 19 (19.39%) Postman
7 15 (15.31%) JIRA
7 15 (15.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (14.29%) LoadRunner
9 12 (12.24%) Git
10 10 (10.20%) MSTest
10 10 (10.20%) REST Assured
11 9 (9.18%) Cypress.io
11 9 (9.18%) Locust
12 7 (7.14%) Visual Studio
13 6 (6.12%) Appium
14 5 (5.10%) Mockito
14 5 (5.10%) SonarQube
15 4 (4.08%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (23.47%) Finance
2 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Developer
2 22 (22.45%) Tester
3 20 (20.41%) Test Engineer
4 18 (18.37%) Automation Tester
4 18 (18.37%) Java Developer
4 18 (18.37%) Senior
5 14 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (11.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (8.16%) Performance Engineer
8 8 (8.16%) Senior Automation Tester
8 8 (8.16%) Senior Tester
9 7 (7.14%) Analyst
9 7 (7.14%) Java Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Performance Test Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.51%) Kafka
2 24 (24.49%) REST
3 21 (21.43%) Spring
4 20 (20.41%) Playwright
5 14 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 12 (12.24%) Web Services
7 11 (11.22%) .NET
8 10 (10.20%) JSON
8 10 (10.20%) RESTful
9 8 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 6 (6.12%) HTML
10 6 (6.12%) JMS
10 6 (6.12%) Middleware
10 6 (6.12%) pytest
10 6 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.10%) Gherkin
11 5 (5.10%) gRPC
11 5 (5.10%) WebSockets
12 4 (4.08%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (4.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Android
2 4 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (76.53%) Test Automation
2 69 (70.41%) CI/CD
3 62 (63.27%) Performance Testing
4 47 (47.96%) Agile
4 47 (47.96%) DevOps
5 33 (33.67%) Test Strategy
6 26 (26.53%) API Testing
7 22 (22.45%) AI
8 21 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
8 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.39%) Test Scripting
10 18 (18.37%) Observability
11 17 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (16.33%) Machine Learning
12 16 (16.33%) Validation
13 14 (14.29%) Regression Testing
14 13 (13.27%) BDD
14 13 (13.27%) Microservices
15 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (12.24%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.82%) Java
2 34 (34.69%) Python
3 29 (29.59%) JavaScript
4 18 (18.37%) C#
4 18 (18.37%) SQL
5 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (1.02%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (1.02%) C
8 1 (1.02%) Korn
8 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 10 (10.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (7.14%) Degree
6 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.02%) OCP
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (35.71%) QA
2 10 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.08%) WCAG
5 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.06%) EU AI Act
5 3 (3.06%) GDPR
5 3 (3.06%) NIST
6 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.02%) NCSC
6 1 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (26.53%) Docker
2 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.43%) Ansible
3 15 (15.31%) Progress Chef
4 12 (12.24%) Terraform
5 9 (9.18%) Grafana
6 7 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Kibana
7 1 (1.02%) logstash
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) VMware
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) New Relic
4 3 (3.06%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.04%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.02%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.02%) Confluent
6 1 (1.02%) HP
6 1 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) UiPath