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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 490 469
Rank change year-on-year -7 -21 +51
Contract jobs citing JMeter 170 68 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.74% 1.38% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 46 66
10th Percentile £313 £313 £362
25th Percentile £410 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -2.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £548
90th Percentile £575 £798 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +4.18% -5.56% -12.20%
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 6,196 4,939 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.07% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 3,328 3,270
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

JMeter
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

JMeter
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

JMeter
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
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

JMeter
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 21 August 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 -37 140 £463 +1.65% 26
UK excluding London -51 73 £443 +4.18% 18
London -47 71 £500 -4.31% 12
Work from Home -37 56 £450 - 12
Midlands -31 24 £457 +1.44% 3
West Midlands -33 21 £500 +8.70% 2
North of England -65 20 £411 -2.72% 3
Yorkshire -33 15 £413 -2.94% 1
South West -38 11 £450 +38.46%
South East -59 8 £305 - 12
Wales - 5 £475 -
East Midlands -18 3 £428 -4.94% 1
North West -41 3 £411 +26.46% 1
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England -17 2 £450 +12.50%
North East - 2 £423 - 1

JMeter
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 21 (12.35%) Confluence
2 6 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.00%) AWS
2 61 (35.88%) Azure
3 45 (26.47%) GitHub
4 32 (18.82%) GCP
5 24 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.12%) Serverless
8 6 (3.53%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.94%) SaaS
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.35%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.76%) Datadog
11 3 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) HTTP
2 3 (1.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.71%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.71%) Tableau
3 6 (3.53%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.35%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.76%) Power BI
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.18%) Big Data
7 2 (1.18%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.18%) Db2
7 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (38.82%) LoadRunner
2 63 (37.06%) Gatling
3 55 (32.35%) Selenium
4 45 (26.47%) Postman
5 44 (25.88%) Jenkins
6 34 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 34 (20.00%) GitLab
7 32 (18.82%) JIRA
8 23 (13.53%) Git
9 21 (12.35%) JUnit
10 19 (11.18%) NeoLoad
10 19 (11.18%) REST Assured
11 17 (10.00%) Cypress.io
11 17 (10.00%) WebDriver
12 11 (6.47%) SoapUI
13 7 (4.12%) eggPlant
13 7 (4.12%) Maven
13 7 (4.12%) SonarQube
13 7 (4.12%) TestNG
14 6 (3.53%) MSTest
General
1 43 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.24%) Finance
5 11 (6.47%) Banking
6 5 (2.94%) Retail
7 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Billing
9 2 (1.18%) Police
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 53 (31.18%) Tester
2 44 (25.88%) Test Engineer
3 38 (22.35%) Senior
4 35 (20.59%) Performance Engineer
5 25 (14.71%) Lead
6 23 (13.53%) Performance Test Engineer
7 19 (11.18%) Performance Tester
8 17 (10.00%) Test Leader
9 16 (9.41%) Senior Test Engineer
10 14 (8.24%) Automation Tester
10 14 (8.24%) Senior Tester
10 14 (8.24%) Test Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Performance Test Leader
11 10 (5.88%) QA Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Senior Automation Tester
13 8 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.71%) Senior Performance Engineer
14 7 (4.12%) Developer
15 6 (3.53%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.53%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.88%) REST
2 26 (15.29%) Playwright
3 18 (10.59%) Kafka
4 17 (10.00%) Spring
5 16 (9.41%) .NET
6 15 (8.82%) Web Services
6 15 (8.82%) WireMock
7 12 (7.06%) XML
8 10 (5.88%) SOAP
9 9 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (5.29%) Swagger
10 8 (4.71%) JSON
11 7 (4.12%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (3.53%) HTML
12 6 (3.53%) Middleware
12 6 (3.53%) pytest
12 6 (3.53%) RESTful
12 6 (3.53%) Terraform
13 5 (2.94%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.18%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.18%) Equities
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.59%) Contactless
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.29%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Android
3 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (66.47%) CI/CD
2 101 (59.41%) Performance Testing
3 100 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 72 (42.35%) DevOps
5 67 (39.41%) Test Strategy
6 63 (37.06%) Agile
7 41 (24.12%) Non-Functional Testing
7 41 (24.12%) Observability
7 41 (24.12%) Validation
8 36 (21.18%) Load Testing
9 35 (20.59%) Microservices
10 31 (18.24%) Scenario Testing
11 29 (17.06%) Performance Engineering
12 28 (16.47%) Containerisation
12 28 (16.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 27 (15.88%) API Testing
14 25 (14.71%) Test Scripting
15 21 (12.35%) BDD
15 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.94%) Python
2 53 (31.18%) Java
3 39 (22.94%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.35%) SQL
5 20 (11.76%) C#
6 13 (7.65%) Bash
6 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.94%) Scala
9 3 (1.76%) Cypher
9 3 (1.76%) Groovy
9 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.76%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.18%) Bicep
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) Korn
11 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 63 (37.06%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.94%) ISEB
6 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.76%) Degree
7 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.53%) QA
2 13 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.76%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.76%) WCAG
6 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 45 (26.47%) Grafana
3 25 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.29%) Ansible
4 9 (5.29%) Kibana
5 5 (2.94%) HP Fortify
6 4 (2.35%) Control-M
7 1 (0.59%) Consul
7 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (23.53%) Dynatrace
2 31 (18.24%) Splunk
3 27 (15.88%) AppDynamics
4 24 (14.12%) New Relic
5 15 (8.82%) IBM
6 12 (7.06%) Oracle
7 11 (6.47%) Google
8 7 (4.12%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.53%) SAP
10 5 (2.94%) Databricks
11 4 (2.35%) Informatica
12 3 (1.76%) Charles River
12 3 (1.76%) Micro Focus
12 3 (1.76%) OpenText
13 2 (1.18%) Confluent
13 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.18%) Solace
14 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.59%) Ingenico
14 1 (0.59%) Parasoft