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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 478 457
Rank change year-on-year -38 -21 +54
Contract jobs citing JMeter 163 79 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 1.56% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 57 61
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £575 £593 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -1.18% -10.53% -5.00%

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 6,385 5,078 5,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 15.33% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,421 3,180
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
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 2 October 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 15 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 2 October 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 -49 134 £469 +10.29% 68
London -41 80 £488 +13.04% 30
Work from Home -49 52 £450 -2.70% 37
UK excluding London -80 52 £420 -1.18% 41
North of England -59 25 £463 +8.82% 14
Yorkshire -21 20 £475 +11.76% 8
Midlands -49 9 £482 +8.51% 6
South East -57 9 £375 -2.60% 10
West Midlands -34 7 £525 - 6
South West -32 4 - - 5
North West -49 3 £411 +26.46% 5
Scotland - 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands -16 2 £428 -3.61%
East of England -30 2 £367 -8.25% 3
North East -42 2 £423 -21.40% 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 16 (9.82%) Confluence
2 6 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.10%) AWS
2 58 (35.58%) Azure
3 41 (25.15%) GitHub
4 26 (15.95%) GCP
5 21 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.52%) Serverless
8 7 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.29%) BrowserStack
9 6 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.68%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.07%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.84%) Datadog
12 3 (1.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) HTTP
1 3 (1.84%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.84%) INAP
1 3 (1.84%) RTP
1 3 (1.84%) tcpdump
1 3 (1.84%) VoIP
1 3 (1.84%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) Tableau
2 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.07%) Power BI
5 4 (2.45%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.84%) Big Data
6 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.23%) Redis
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.23%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.61%) Db2
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 62 (38.04%) Gatling
2 60 (36.81%) LoadRunner
3 46 (28.22%) Postman
4 45 (27.61%) Jenkins
5 43 (26.38%) Selenium
6 35 (21.47%) Cucumber
7 33 (20.25%) JIRA
8 31 (19.02%) GitLab
9 21 (12.88%) Git
10 20 (12.27%) NeoLoad
11 19 (11.66%) REST Assured
12 17 (10.43%) Cypress.io
12 17 (10.43%) JUnit
13 13 (7.98%) SoapUI
14 10 (6.13%) WebDriver
15 9 (5.52%) eggPlant
15 9 (5.52%) TestNG
16 7 (4.29%) Newman
16 7 (4.29%) SonarQube
17 6 (3.68%) Locust
General
1 35 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.20%) Finance
5 13 (7.98%) Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.07%) Retail
7 3 (1.84%) Military
7 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
8 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Police
9 1 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 49 (30.06%) Tester
2 46 (28.22%) Test Engineer
3 34 (20.86%) Lead
4 31 (19.02%) Senior
5 24 (14.72%) Performance Engineer
6 19 (11.66%) Performance Test Engineer
6 19 (11.66%) Performance Tester
6 19 (11.66%) Test Leader
7 16 (9.82%) Senior Test Engineer
8 15 (9.20%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) QA Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Automation Tester
11 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Performance Test Leader
12 8 (4.91%) Senior Performance Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) QA Tester
14 6 (3.68%) Developer
14 6 (3.68%) Senior Tester
14 6 (3.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.25%) Playwright
2 23 (14.11%) REST
3 22 (13.50%) Kafka
4 16 (9.82%) .NET
5 13 (7.98%) SOAP
6 11 (6.75%) Middleware
7 10 (6.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (6.13%) XML
8 9 (5.52%) pytest
8 9 (5.52%) Web Services
9 8 (4.91%) RESTful
9 8 (4.91%) Spring
9 8 (4.91%) WireMock
10 7 (4.29%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (4.29%) Swagger
11 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.68%) Terraform
12 5 (3.07%) HTML
12 5 (3.07%) OpenID
13 4 (2.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.23%) Equities
7 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Contactless
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.61%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.61%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
3 4 (2.45%) Windows
4 3 (1.84%) CentOS
4 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (65.64%) CI/CD
2 105 (64.42%) Performance Testing
3 103 (63.19%) Test Automation
4 66 (40.49%) DevOps
5 62 (38.04%) Test Strategy
6 59 (36.20%) Agile
7 44 (26.99%) Non-Functional Testing
8 36 (22.09%) Observability
9 35 (21.47%) Validation
10 33 (20.25%) API Testing
10 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
11 31 (19.02%) Scenario Testing
11 31 (19.02%) Test Scripting
12 28 (17.18%) Microservices
13 23 (14.11%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (14.11%) Mentoring
13 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (13.50%) Performance Engineering
15 21 (12.88%) Load Testing
15 21 (12.88%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.42%) Python
2 49 (30.06%) Java
3 42 (25.77%) JavaScript
4 27 (16.56%) SQL
5 18 (11.04%) C#
6 17 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.36%) Bash
8 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.07%) Scala
10 3 (1.84%) Cypher
10 3 (1.84%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.23%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.23%) Ruby
11 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 77 (47.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (44.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) ISTQB
4 7 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.07%) ISEB
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
6 3 (1.84%) MOS
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (30.06%) QA
2 19 (11.66%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.45%) WCAG
6 3 (1.84%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (24.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (28.22%) Kubernetes
2 40 (24.54%) Grafana
3 18 (11.04%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.36%) Ansible
5 9 (5.52%) Kibana
6 5 (3.07%) Control-M
6 5 (3.07%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.84%) Packer
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (19.63%) Dynatrace
2 27 (16.56%) Splunk
3 20 (12.27%) AppDynamics
4 19 (11.66%) IBM
5 18 (11.04%) New Relic
6 12 (7.36%) Oracle
7 9 (5.52%) Databricks
7 9 (5.52%) Google
8 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.07%) SAP
9 4 (2.45%) Informatica
10 3 (1.84%) Charles River
10 3 (1.84%) Dialogic
10 3 (1.84%) Metaswitch
11 2 (1.23%) Foundry
11 2 (1.23%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.61%) Confluent
12 1 (0.61%) Parasoft
12 1 (0.61%) Salesforce