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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 485 446
Rank change year-on-year -37 -39 +62
Contract jobs citing JMeter 153 77 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.43% 1.54% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 56 67
10th Percentile £313 £312 £363
25th Percentile £400 £392 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -9.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £532 £588
90th Percentile £575 £594 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +0.59% -11.05% -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 6,302 4,999 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.19% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,018 3,365 3,256
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 110 177
10th Percentile £24.13 £30.58 £29.14
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.30 £73.85
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -55 125 £475 +11.76% 60
London -44 74 £500 +15.94% 36
Work from Home -47 50 £450 - 23
UK excluding London -84 49 £425 +0.59% 28
North of England -55 21 £402 -5.41% 10
Yorkshire -36 16 £400 -5.88% 7
Midlands -44 12 £525 +18.31% 3
West Midlands -39 10 £525 - 2
South East -57 7 £375 -2.60% 6
South West -31 5 - - 4
North West -46 3 £411 +26.46% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands -20 2 £428 -3.61% 1
North East -41 2 £423 -19.52% 1
East of England -32 1 £367 -8.25% 2

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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 15 (9.80%) Confluence
2 6 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.31%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.52%) AWS
2 52 (33.99%) Azure
3 38 (24.84%) GitHub
4 24 (15.69%) GCP
5 20 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.23%) Serverless
8 6 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.92%) BrowserStack
9 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.27%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.96%) Datadog
11 3 (1.96%) SaaS
12 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.31%) HTTP
2 2 (1.31%) INAP
2 2 (1.31%) RTP
2 2 (1.31%) tcpdump
2 2 (1.31%) VoIP
2 2 (1.31%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (5.88%) Tableau
2 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.27%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.61%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.61%) Power BI
5 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.31%) Big Data
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.65%) Db2
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (38.56%) Gatling
2 58 (37.91%) LoadRunner
3 44 (28.76%) Postman
4 42 (27.45%) Jenkins
5 40 (26.14%) Selenium
6 30 (19.61%) Cucumber
6 30 (19.61%) GitLab
6 30 (19.61%) JIRA
7 20 (13.07%) NeoLoad
8 19 (12.42%) Git
9 17 (11.11%) Cypress.io
9 17 (11.11%) REST Assured
10 15 (9.80%) JUnit
11 12 (7.84%) SoapUI
12 10 (6.54%) WebDriver
13 8 (5.23%) TestNG
14 7 (4.58%) eggPlant
14 7 (4.58%) Newman
14 7 (4.58%) SonarQube
15 6 (3.92%) Maven
General
1 33 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.15%) Finance
5 12 (7.84%) Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Retail
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Military
8 2 (1.31%) Billing
8 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Police
8 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 45 (29.41%) Tester
2 44 (28.76%) Test Engineer
3 29 (18.95%) Senior
4 27 (17.65%) Performance Engineer
5 26 (16.99%) Lead
6 21 (13.73%) Performance Test Engineer
7 17 (11.11%) Performance Tester
8 16 (10.46%) Test Leader
9 15 (9.80%) Senior Test Engineer
10 13 (8.50%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (7.19%) QA Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) Performance Test Leader
13 8 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (5.23%) Automation Tester
13 8 (5.23%) Senior Performance Engineer
14 6 (3.92%) Automation Test Lead
14 6 (3.92%) Developer in Test
14 6 (3.92%) QA Automation Engineer
14 6 (3.92%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.61%) Playwright
2 24 (15.69%) REST
3 18 (11.76%) Kafka
4 16 (10.46%) .NET
5 11 (7.19%) SOAP
6 10 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (6.54%) XML
7 9 (5.88%) pytest
7 9 (5.88%) Web Services
8 8 (5.23%) Middleware
8 8 (5.23%) Spring
8 8 (5.23%) Swagger
8 8 (5.23%) WireMock
9 7 (4.58%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (4.58%) RESTful
10 6 (3.92%) Terraform
11 5 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (3.27%) HTML
11 5 (3.27%) JSON
11 5 (3.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.31%) Equities
7 2 (1.31%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.31%) NHS
7 2 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Contactless
8 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Unix
3 3 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.31%) CentOS
4 2 (1.31%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 96 (62.75%) Performance Testing
3 93 (60.78%) Test Automation
4 64 (41.83%) DevOps
5 60 (39.22%) Test Strategy
6 55 (35.95%) Agile
7 38 (24.84%) Non-Functional Testing
8 35 (22.88%) Observability
8 35 (22.88%) Validation
9 30 (19.61%) API Testing
9 30 (19.61%) Containerisation
10 29 (18.95%) Scenario Testing
11 28 (18.30%) Test Scripting
12 26 (16.99%) Microservices
13 24 (15.69%) Load Testing
14 22 (14.38%) Performance Engineering
15 21 (13.73%) End-to-End Testing
15 21 (13.73%) Mentoring
15 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (12.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.60%) Python
2 48 (31.37%) Java
3 38 (24.84%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.65%) SQL
5 17 (11.11%) C#
6 16 (10.46%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.50%) Bash
8 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.96%) Cypher
10 3 (1.96%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.31%) Bicep
11 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.31%) Ruby
11 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 67 (43.79%) Security Cleared
2 62 (40.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.61%) ISEB
6 3 (1.96%) Degree
6 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.31%) MOS
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (30.72%) QA
2 18 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.61%) WCAG
5 3 (1.96%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (24.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (28.76%) Kubernetes
2 38 (24.84%) Grafana
3 18 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.54%) Ansible
5 8 (5.23%) Kibana
6 5 (3.27%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.61%) Control-M
8 2 (1.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.65%) Consul
9 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (21.57%) Dynatrace
2 27 (17.65%) Splunk
3 20 (13.07%) AppDynamics
4 18 (11.76%) New Relic
5 16 (10.46%) IBM
6 11 (7.19%) Oracle
7 9 (5.88%) Google
8 7 (4.58%) Databricks
9 5 (3.27%) SAP
10 4 (2.61%) Informatica
10 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
11 3 (1.96%) Charles River
12 2 (1.31%) Dialogic
12 2 (1.31%) Foundry
12 2 (1.31%) Metaswitch
13 1 (0.65%) Confluent
13 1 (0.65%) OutSystems
13 1 (0.65%) Parasoft
13 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.65%) Solace