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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 445 514
Rank change year-on-year -51 +69 +37
Contract jobs citing JMeter 94 110 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.72% 2.33% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 52 95
10th Percentile £312 £363 £314
25th Percentile £363 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £488 £419
% change year-on-year -23.08% +16.42% -14.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 5,464 4,718 6,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 13.02% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,766 2,939 4,189
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.75% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 131 238
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.84 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.26
90th Percentile £82.40 £74.44 £89.13
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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -59 72 £425 -10.53% 42
UK excluding London -45 40 £375 -23.08% 25
London -15 39 £523 +10.00% 21
Work from Home +8 35 £475 -16.48% 24
South East +11 18 £373 -34.65% 12
Wales +11 9 £675 +20.00% 2
North of England -36 7 £425 - 3
East of England -16 4 £200 - 3
North East -4 3 £525 +61.54% 1
Yorkshire -42 3 £360 -20.00% 1
Midlands -44 2 £375 +5.63%
East Midlands - 2 £375 -
North West - 1 - - 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 (3.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) Azure
2 33 (35.11%) GitHub
3 32 (34.04%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (31.91%) AWS
5 22 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (19.15%) OpenShift
7 14 (14.89%) GCP
8 9 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (9.57%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.32%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (5.32%) BlazeMeter
9 5 (5.32%) Serverless
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.26%) Vertex AI
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.19%) BrowserStack
11 3 (3.19%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.26%) BigQuery
4 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.13%) MySQL
5 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.06%) HBase
6 1 (1.06%) Looker
6 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (48.94%) Selenium
2 36 (38.30%) Cucumber
3 31 (32.98%) Jenkins
4 26 (27.66%) Gatling
5 24 (25.53%) JUnit
6 21 (22.34%) GitLab
7 19 (20.21%) Postman
8 15 (15.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (14.89%) LoadRunner
10 12 (12.77%) JIRA
11 11 (11.70%) Cypress.io
11 11 (11.70%) Git
12 10 (10.64%) MSTest
12 10 (10.64%) REST Assured
13 8 (8.51%) Locust
14 7 (7.45%) Visual Studio
15 5 (5.32%) Appium
15 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
16 4 (4.26%) Mockito
16 4 (4.26%) Snyk
General
1 23 (24.47%) Finance
2 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Military
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Developer
2 21 (22.34%) Tester
3 18 (19.15%) Automation Tester
4 17 (18.09%) Java Developer
4 17 (18.09%) Senior
4 17 (18.09%) Test Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Automation Tester
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Tester
9 7 (7.45%) Analyst
9 7 (7.45%) Java Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Performance Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Performance Test Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) QA Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.53%) Kafka
2 22 (23.40%) REST
3 20 (21.28%) Playwright
3 20 (21.28%) Spring
4 14 (14.89%) Hibernate
5 13 (13.83%) Web Services
6 11 (11.70%) .NET
6 11 (11.70%) JSON
6 11 (11.70%) RESTful
7 7 (7.45%) HTML
7 7 (7.45%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.38%) Gherkin
8 6 (6.38%) JMS
8 6 (6.38%) Middleware
8 6 (6.38%) pytest
8 6 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (5.32%) CSS
9 5 (5.32%) gRPC
9 5 (5.32%) WebSockets
10 4 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Android
2 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (77.66%) Test Automation
2 66 (70.21%) CI/CD
3 57 (60.64%) Performance Testing
4 45 (47.87%) DevOps
5 43 (45.74%) Agile
6 33 (35.11%) Test Strategy
7 26 (27.66%) API Testing
8 21 (22.34%) AI
8 21 (22.34%) Non-Functional Testing
9 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (19.15%) Observability
11 17 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (18.09%) Test Scripting
12 16 (17.02%) Machine Learning
13 15 (15.96%) Validation
14 14 (14.89%) BDD
15 13 (13.83%) SDET
15 13 (13.83%) Software Testing
16 12 (12.77%) Microservices
17 11 (11.70%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) Java
2 33 (35.11%) Python
3 28 (29.79%) JavaScript
4 19 (20.21%) C#
5 18 (19.15%) SQL
6 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.06%) Bash
9 1 (1.06%) C
9 1 (1.06%) Korn
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.89%) ISTQB
4 10 (10.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (7.45%) Degree
6 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.06%) OCP
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (34.04%) QA
2 9 (9.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.32%) WCAG
5 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.19%) EU AI Act
5 3 (3.19%) GDPR
5 3 (3.19%) NIST
6 1 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
2 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 21 (22.34%) Ansible
3 15 (15.96%) Progress Chef
4 11 (11.70%) Terraform
5 7 (7.45%) Grafana
6 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.06%) Kibana
7 1 (1.06%) logstash
7 1 (1.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) VMware
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.13%) Google
5 2 (2.13%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.06%) HP
6 1 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.06%) New Relic
6 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.06%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.06%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) UiPath