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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 461 461
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 +71
Contract jobs citing JMeter 163 91 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 1.91% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 64 73
10th Percentile £321 £298 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -11.36%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -11.63%
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 6,197 4,759 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.60% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,197 3,430
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 102 234
10th Percentile £26.20 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +5.69%

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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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -35 132 £450 -6.83% 22
UK excluding London -57 82 £450 - 15
London -56 58 £475 -2.56% 11
Work from Home -37 57 £450 +3.75% 10
Midlands -22 34 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands -28 31 £438 -7.21% 1
North of England -68 16 £488 +14.71% 5
South West -27 11 £450 +38.46% 1
Wales - 9 £475 -
South East -65 8 £305 - 6
Yorkshire -56 7 £423 -6.11% 2
North West -42 6 £488 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -12 3 £418 -7.22% 2
North East - 3 £423 - 1
Scotland -15 2 - -
East of England -25 2 £450 +12.50%

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 31 (19.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Apache
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (45.40%) AWS
2 72 (44.17%) Azure
3 50 (30.67%) GitHub
4 37 (22.70%) GCP
5 28 (17.18%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.68%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.45%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.23%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.23%) SaaS
10 2 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) HTTP
2 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.23%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.23%) Db2
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.23%) Power BI
5 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (37.42%) Selenium
2 59 (36.20%) Gatling
3 46 (28.22%) Jenkins
3 46 (28.22%) Postman
4 44 (26.99%) LoadRunner
5 40 (24.54%) Cucumber
6 39 (23.93%) JIRA
7 35 (21.47%) GitLab
8 31 (19.02%) JUnit
9 29 (17.79%) Git
10 26 (15.95%) WebDriver
11 21 (12.88%) REST Assured
12 14 (8.59%) Cypress.io
13 8 (4.91%) TestNG
14 7 (4.29%) Maven
14 7 (4.29%) NeoLoad
15 6 (3.68%) MSTest
16 5 (3.07%) SoapUI
17 4 (2.45%) Appium
17 4 (2.45%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.02%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.29%) Finance
6 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.07%) Banking
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Law
11 1 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (36.81%) Tester
2 37 (22.70%) Senior
3 34 (20.86%) Test Engineer
4 27 (16.56%) Performance Engineer
5 23 (14.11%) Performance Tester
6 22 (13.50%) Lead
7 18 (11.04%) Test Leader
8 17 (10.43%) Automation Tester
9 16 (9.82%) Senior Tester
10 15 (9.20%) Performance Test Engineer
11 14 (8.59%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (6.13%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (6.13%) Test Automation Engineer
13 9 (5.52%) QA Engineer
14 7 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.29%) Performance Test Leader
14 7 (4.29%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 6 (3.68%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.68%) Developer
15 6 (3.68%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.18%) Spring
2 27 (16.56%) REST
3 24 (14.72%) WireMock
4 18 (11.04%) Playwright
5 11 (6.75%) .NET
6 10 (6.13%) Swagger
7 9 (5.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (5.52%) RESTful
8 8 (4.91%) Web Services
9 7 (4.29%) Kafka
9 7 (4.29%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (3.68%) JSON
10 6 (3.68%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.68%) XML
11 5 (3.07%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.07%) React
12 4 (2.45%) OpenID
12 4 (2.45%) pytest
13 3 (1.84%) OAuth
13 3 (1.84%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.82%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.45%) NHS
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.23%) Equities
8 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.61%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (68.71%) CI/CD
2 100 (61.35%) Test Automation
3 94 (57.67%) Performance Testing
4 69 (42.33%) Agile
5 58 (35.58%) DevOps
5 58 (35.58%) Test Strategy
6 48 (29.45%) Validation
7 44 (26.99%) Load Testing
8 42 (25.77%) Microservices
8 42 (25.77%) Observability
9 35 (21.47%) Non-Functional Testing
10 33 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (17.18%) BDD
11 28 (17.18%) End-to-End Testing
11 28 (17.18%) Performance Engineering
12 27 (16.56%) API Testing
13 26 (15.95%) TDD
14 25 (15.34%) Containerisation
14 25 (15.34%) Scenario Testing
15 20 (12.27%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.99%) Java
2 39 (23.93%) Python
3 30 (18.40%) SQL
4 23 (14.11%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.04%) C#
6 11 (6.75%) Bash
6 11 (6.75%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.07%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.84%) Bicep
9 3 (1.84%) Go
9 3 (1.84%) Groovy
10 2 (1.23%) Cypher
10 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) Swift
11 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 53 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) ISEB
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.86%) QA
2 16 (9.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.84%) WCAG
5 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.61%) SEPA
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (28.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (34.36%) Kubernetes
2 48 (29.45%) Grafana
3 34 (20.86%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.13%) Kibana
5 7 (4.29%) Ansible
6 5 (3.07%) Terraform
7 2 (1.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Dynatrace
2 24 (14.72%) Splunk
3 22 (13.50%) AppDynamics
4 15 (9.20%) New Relic
5 9 (5.52%) Google
5 9 (5.52%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.68%) Oracle
7 4 (2.45%) IBM
7 4 (2.45%) Informatica
8 3 (1.84%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.84%) OpenText
9 2 (1.23%) Charles River
9 2 (1.23%) HP
9 2 (1.23%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.23%) SAP
9 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Solace
10 1 (0.61%) Citrix
10 1 (0.61%) Confluent
10 1 (0.61%) Parasoft