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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 485 461
Rank change year-on-year -22 -24 +56
Contract jobs citing JMeter 167 71 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 1.44% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 50 67
10th Percentile £313 £313 £362
25th Percentile £410 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £562 £545
90th Percentile £575 £798 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.29% -8.11% -9.76%
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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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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 27 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 27 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 -27 136 £469 +4.17% 30
London -38 71 £500 -1.96% 14
UK excluding London -52 69 £448 +5.29% 22
Work from Home -34 54 £450 -2.17% 18
Midlands -39 20 £525 +16.67% 4
North of England -59 20 £411 -3.29% 4
West Midlands -34 18 £525 +14.13% 4
Yorkshire -41 15 £413 -2.94% 2
South West -32 11 £450 +38.46% 5
South East -50 8 £305 - 11
Wales - 5 £475 -
North West -44 3 £411 +26.46% 3
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -16 2 £428 -4.94%
East of England -25 2 £450 +12.50%
North East -40 2 £423 -19.52%

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 17 (10.18%) Confluence
2 6 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (38.32%) AWS
2 58 (34.73%) Azure
3 42 (25.15%) GitHub
4 29 (17.37%) GCP
5 20 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.19%) Serverless
8 6 (3.59%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.99%) SaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.40%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.80%) Datadog
11 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) HTTP
2 3 (1.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.79%) Tableau
3 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.59%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.80%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.20%) Big Data
8 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.20%) Db2
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (39.52%) LoadRunner
2 63 (37.72%) Gatling
3 53 (31.74%) Selenium
4 44 (26.35%) Postman
5 42 (25.15%) Jenkins
6 33 (19.76%) GitLab
7 32 (19.16%) Cucumber
8 28 (16.77%) JIRA
9 20 (11.98%) Git
9 20 (11.98%) NeoLoad
10 18 (10.78%) JUnit
10 18 (10.78%) REST Assured
11 17 (10.18%) Cypress.io
12 14 (8.38%) WebDriver
13 11 (6.59%) SoapUI
14 7 (4.19%) eggPlant
14 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
14 7 (4.19%) TestNG
15 6 (3.59%) Maven
15 6 (3.59%) MSTest
General
1 40 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.38%) Finance
5 11 (6.59%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Retail
7 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Military
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) Tester
2 44 (26.35%) Test Engineer
3 38 (22.75%) Senior
4 35 (20.96%) Performance Engineer
5 24 (14.37%) Lead
6 23 (13.77%) Performance Test Engineer
7 19 (11.38%) Performance Tester
8 16 (9.58%) Senior Test Engineer
8 16 (9.58%) Test Leader
9 14 (8.38%) Automation Tester
9 14 (8.38%) Test Automation Engineer
10 13 (7.78%) Senior Tester
11 10 (5.99%) Performance Test Leader
11 10 (5.99%) QA Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Senior Automation Tester
12 8 (4.79%) Senior Performance Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) Developer
14 6 (3.59%) Developer in Test
14 6 (3.59%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.57%) REST
2 25 (14.97%) Playwright
3 17 (10.18%) Kafka
4 16 (9.58%) .NET
5 15 (8.98%) Web Services
6 13 (7.78%) Spring
7 12 (7.19%) WireMock
8 11 (6.59%) XML
9 10 (5.99%) SOAP
10 9 (5.39%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (4.79%) Swagger
12 7 (4.19%) JSON
12 7 (4.19%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (4.19%) RESTful
13 6 (3.59%) HTML
13 6 (3.59%) Middleware
13 6 (3.59%) pytest
13 6 (3.59%) Terraform
14 5 (2.99%) Gherkin
14 5 (2.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Cloud Native
1 19 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.19%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.19%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.20%) Equities
6 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.60%) Contactless
7 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) Android
3 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (65.27%) CI/CD
2 100 (59.88%) Performance Testing
3 97 (58.08%) Test Automation
4 72 (43.11%) DevOps
5 63 (37.72%) Agile
5 63 (37.72%) Test Strategy
6 41 (24.55%) Non-Functional Testing
7 37 (22.16%) Observability
7 37 (22.16%) Validation
8 33 (19.76%) Load Testing
9 31 (18.56%) Microservices
10 30 (17.96%) Scenario Testing
11 29 (17.37%) Performance Engineering
12 28 (16.77%) Containerisation
13 26 (15.57%) API Testing
13 26 (15.57%) Test Scripting
14 25 (14.97%) End-to-End Testing
15 21 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (11.38%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.13%) Python
2 52 (31.14%) Java
3 39 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.75%) SQL
5 20 (11.98%) C#
6 13 (7.78%) Bash
6 13 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.99%) Scala
9 3 (1.80%) Cypher
9 3 (1.80%) Groovy
9 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.20%) Bicep
10 2 (1.20%) Ruby
10 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (42.51%) Security Cleared
2 63 (37.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.99%) ISEB
6 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (24.55%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.80%) WCAG
6 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (28.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (29.34%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.55%) Grafana
3 22 (13.17%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.39%) Ansible
4 9 (5.39%) Kibana
5 5 (2.99%) HP Fortify
6 4 (2.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.60%) Consul
7 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.60%) Istio
7 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (23.95%) Dynatrace
2 31 (18.56%) Splunk
3 27 (16.17%) AppDynamics
4 23 (13.77%) New Relic
5 15 (8.98%) IBM
6 12 (7.19%) Oracle
7 11 (6.59%) Google
8 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.59%) SAP
10 5 (2.99%) Databricks
11 4 (2.40%) Informatica
12 3 (1.80%) Charles River
12 3 (1.80%) Micro Focus
12 3 (1.80%) OpenText
13 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.20%) Solace
14 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.60%) Confluent
14 1 (0.60%) Ingenico
14 1 (0.60%) Parasoft