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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 479 442
Rank change year-on-year -8 -37 +68
Contract jobs citing JMeter 176 74 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.82% 1.51% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 50 70
10th Percentile £313 £285 £362
25th Percentile £406 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%
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 6,242 4,906 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.69% 14.90% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,303 3,291
10th Percentile £351 £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% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 210
10th Percentile £34.49 £27.94 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.25 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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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 14 August 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 14 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 -25 146 £454 -1.25% 35
UK excluding London -40 82 £425 - 18
London -44 69 £500 -4.76% 20
Work from Home -15 58 £450 +5.88% 15
Midlands -23 32 £432 -4.11% 3
West Midlands -28 29 £450 +38.46% 2
North of England -53 20 £411 -2.72% 3
Yorkshire -31 15 £413 -2.94% 2
South West -37 11 £450 +38.46% 2
South East -64 8 £305 - 10
Wales - 6 £475 -
East Midlands -20 3 £428 -4.94% 1
North West -41 3 £411 +26.46% 1
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England -22 2 £450 +12.50% 1
North East - 2 £423 -

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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 29 (16.48%) Confluence
2 6 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (43.18%) AWS
2 66 (37.50%) Azure
3 49 (27.84%) GitHub
4 41 (23.30%) GCP
5 28 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.84%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.84%) SaaS
7 5 (2.84%) Serverless
8 4 (2.27%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.70%) Datadog
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.14%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.14%) Kong
10 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.98%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.55%) Tableau
3 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.41%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.27%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.14%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.14%) Db2
8 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 67 (38.07%) LoadRunner
2 64 (36.36%) Gatling
3 59 (33.52%) Selenium
4 46 (26.14%) Jenkins
5 43 (24.43%) Postman
6 40 (22.73%) Cucumber
7 38 (21.59%) JIRA
8 33 (18.75%) GitLab
9 31 (17.61%) Git
10 28 (15.91%) JUnit
11 24 (13.64%) WebDriver
12 19 (10.80%) NeoLoad
13 16 (9.09%) REST Assured
14 15 (8.52%) Cypress.io
15 11 (6.25%) SoapUI
16 7 (3.98%) eggPlant
16 7 (3.98%) Maven
16 7 (3.98%) SonarQube
17 6 (3.41%) MSTest
17 6 (3.41%) TestNG
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.82%) Finance
5 9 (5.11%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.84%) Retail
8 3 (1.70%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (33.52%) Tester
2 44 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 41 (23.30%) Senior
4 35 (19.89%) Performance Engineer
5 30 (17.05%) Lead
6 23 (13.07%) Performance Test Engineer
7 21 (11.93%) Performance Tester
7 21 (11.93%) Test Leader
8 18 (10.23%) Automation Tester
9 17 (9.66%) Senior Test Engineer
9 17 (9.66%) Senior Tester
10 13 (7.39%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Performance Test Leader
11 11 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (5.68%) QA Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Performance Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.20%) Spring
2 24 (13.64%) REST
2 24 (13.64%) WireMock
3 22 (12.50%) Playwright
4 17 (9.66%) Kafka
5 16 (9.09%) .NET
6 14 (7.95%) Web Services
7 12 (6.82%) XML
8 10 (5.68%) SOAP
9 9 (5.11%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (5.11%) Swagger
10 7 (3.98%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.41%) JSON
11 6 (3.41%) Middleware
11 6 (3.41%) pytest
11 6 (3.41%) RESTful
12 5 (2.84%) HTML
12 5 (2.84%) OpenID
13 4 (2.27%) Node.js
13 4 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.34%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.52%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.70%) NHS
8 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 105 (59.66%) Test Automation
3 102 (57.95%) Performance Testing
4 75 (42.61%) Test Strategy
5 67 (38.07%) DevOps
6 66 (37.50%) Agile
7 50 (28.41%) Validation
8 48 (27.27%) Observability
9 45 (25.57%) Load Testing
10 42 (23.86%) Microservices
11 39 (22.16%) Non-Functional Testing
12 35 (19.89%) End-to-End Testing
13 31 (17.61%) Scenario Testing
14 30 (17.05%) API Testing
14 30 (17.05%) Containerisation
15 29 (16.48%) BDD
15 29 (16.48%) Performance Engineering
16 28 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (14.77%) Test Scripting
18 24 (13.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.68%) Python
2 50 (28.41%) Java
3 37 (21.02%) SQL
4 36 (20.45%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.80%) C#
6 13 (7.39%) Bash
7 11 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.84%) Scala
10 3 (1.70%) Cypher
10 3 (1.70%) Groovy
10 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.70%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.14%) Bicep
11 2 (1.14%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 68 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.27%) ISEB
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.70%) Degree
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (21.02%) QA
2 13 (7.39%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) WCAG
6 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (32.39%) Kubernetes
2 54 (30.68%) Grafana
3 33 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.68%) Kibana
5 7 (3.98%) Ansible
6 5 (2.84%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.84%) Terraform
7 4 (2.27%) Control-M
8 1 (0.57%) Consul
8 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 41 (23.30%) Dynatrace
2 31 (17.61%) Splunk
3 28 (15.91%) AppDynamics
4 24 (13.64%) New Relic
5 15 (8.52%) IBM
6 12 (6.82%) Google
7 11 (6.25%) Oracle
8 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.41%) SAP
10 5 (2.84%) Databricks
11 4 (2.27%) Informatica
12 3 (1.70%) Charles River
12 3 (1.70%) Micro Focus
12 3 (1.70%) OpenText
13 2 (1.14%) Confluent
13 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.14%) Solace
14 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.57%) Ingenico
14 1 (0.57%) Parasoft