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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 473 467
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +43
Contract jobs citing JMeter 167 78 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.68% 1.59% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 55 70
10th Percentile £329 £288 £362
25th Percentile £413 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -2.56%
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 6,235 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,998 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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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 5 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 5 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 -56 138 £459 -0.33% 32
UK excluding London -47 79 £450 +5.88% 20
London -32 66 £500 -1.96% 13
Work from Home -33 56 £450 +2.86% 12
Midlands -29 34 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands -31 30 £425 +30.77% 1
North of England -54 14 £510 +20.71% 7
South West -36 11 £450 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -43 10 £595 +40.00% 6
South East -62 8 £305 - 7
Wales - 7 £475 - 1
East Midlands -8 4 £428 -4.94% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England -18 2 £450 +12.50% 1
North West -50 2 £402 +23.69% 1
North East - 2 £423 -

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 32 (19.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (42.51%) AWS
2 66 (39.52%) Azure
3 45 (26.95%) GitHub
4 37 (22.16%) GCP
5 24 (14.37%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.99%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.99%) SaaS
7 5 (2.99%) Serverless
8 4 (2.40%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.80%) Datadog
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) HTTP
2 3 (1.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.20%) Db2
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (38.92%) Gatling
2 57 (34.13%) Selenium
3 55 (32.93%) LoadRunner
4 42 (25.15%) Jenkins
4 42 (25.15%) JIRA
5 39 (23.35%) Cucumber
6 37 (22.16%) Postman
7 33 (19.76%) GitLab
8 30 (17.96%) JUnit
9 27 (16.17%) Git
10 24 (14.37%) WebDriver
11 17 (10.18%) NeoLoad
12 16 (9.58%) REST Assured
13 13 (7.78%) Cypress.io
14 8 (4.79%) TestNG
15 7 (4.19%) Maven
16 6 (3.59%) MSTest
17 5 (2.99%) SoapUI
17 5 (2.99%) Zephyr
18 4 (2.40%) Appium
General
1 47 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.39%) Finance
4 9 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.99%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Retail
7 3 (1.80%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (35.93%) Tester
2 36 (21.56%) Senior
3 35 (20.96%) Test Engineer
4 30 (17.96%) Performance Engineer
5 25 (14.97%) Lead
6 23 (13.77%) Performance Tester
7 20 (11.98%) Test Leader
8 18 (10.78%) Performance Test Engineer
9 17 (10.18%) Automation Tester
10 16 (9.58%) Senior Tester
11 13 (7.78%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (5.99%) Performance Test Leader
12 10 (5.99%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (5.99%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.79%) QA Engineer
14 7 (4.19%) Automation Test Lead
14 7 (4.19%) Developer
14 7 (4.19%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 6 (3.59%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.97%) REST
1 25 (14.97%) Spring
2 24 (14.37%) WireMock
3 20 (11.98%) Playwright
4 10 (5.99%) .NET
4 10 (5.99%) Swagger
5 9 (5.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (5.39%) Web Services
6 7 (4.19%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (4.19%) XML
7 6 (3.59%) JSON
7 6 (3.59%) RESTful
8 5 (2.99%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.99%) OpenID
8 5 (2.99%) pytest
9 4 (2.40%) Kafka
9 4 (2.40%) Node.js
9 4 (2.40%) OAuth
9 4 (2.40%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (10.18%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.98%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.40%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.40%) NHS
5 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.20%) Equities
6 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (68.26%) CI/CD
2 97 (58.08%) Performance Testing
3 96 (57.49%) Test Automation
4 68 (40.72%) Test Strategy
5 66 (39.52%) Agile
6 65 (38.92%) DevOps
7 49 (29.34%) Validation
8 47 (28.14%) Load Testing
9 44 (26.35%) Observability
10 42 (25.15%) Microservices
11 39 (23.35%) Non-Functional Testing
12 31 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (17.37%) BDD
13 29 (17.37%) End-to-End Testing
13 29 (17.37%) Performance Engineering
14 27 (16.17%) Scenario Testing
15 26 (15.57%) Containerisation
16 24 (14.37%) API Testing
16 24 (14.37%) TDD
17 22 (13.17%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.14%) Java
2 45 (26.95%) Python
3 30 (17.96%) SQL
4 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.78%) C#
6 12 (7.19%) Bash
7 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.99%) Scala
9 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.80%) Cypher
10 3 (1.80%) Groovy
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (1.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) ISEB
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.56%) QA
2 12 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) WCAG
5 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (29.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (31.14%) Kubernetes
2 48 (28.74%) Grafana
3 33 (19.76%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.99%) Kibana
5 7 (4.19%) Ansible
6 5 (2.99%) Terraform
7 1 (0.60%) Consul
7 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (20.96%) Dynatrace
2 28 (16.77%) AppDynamics
3 25 (14.97%) Splunk
4 18 (10.78%) New Relic
5 13 (7.78%) Google
6 6 (3.59%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.59%) Oracle
7 4 (2.40%) IBM
7 4 (2.40%) Informatica
8 3 (1.80%) Charles River
8 3 (1.80%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.80%) OpenText
8 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.20%) Solace
10 1 (0.60%) Citrix
10 1 (0.60%) Confluent
10 1 (0.60%) HP
10 1 (0.60%) Ingenico
10 1 (0.60%) Parasoft
10 1 (0.60%) SAP