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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 439 438
Rank change year-on-year -44 -1 +85
Contract jobs citing JMeter 161 94 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.71% 2.17% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 60 101
10th Percentile £350 £292 £363
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £518 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -12.20%
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 5,949 4,331 5,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 14.55% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,891 3,530
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 84 245
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.56 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -78 129 £450 -5.26% 17
UK excluding London -55 81 £450 - 13
London -48 58 £461 -5.54% 8
Work from Home -28 55 £450 +2.86% 8
Midlands -26 36 £438 -3.85% 3
West Midlands -24 33 £450 -4.56% 1
North of England -71 16 £500 +17.65% 3
South West -14 11 £450 +38.46%
Wales - 9 £475 -
Yorkshire -64 8 £489 +15.06% 1
North West -36 5 £500 +53.85% 1
South East -56 5 £313 - 5
East Midlands -21 3 £418 -7.22% 2
North East - 3 £423 - 1
Scotland -9 2 - - 2
East of England -30 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 29 (18.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (49.07%) Azure
2 77 (47.83%) AWS
3 55 (34.16%) GitHub
4 40 (24.84%) GCP
5 31 (19.25%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.97%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.11%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.24%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.24%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.24%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.24%) SaaS
11 2 (1.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.97%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.86%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.86%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.24%) MySQL
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.24%) Power BI
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.62%) Db2
6 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (40.37%) Selenium
2 56 (34.78%) Gatling
3 50 (31.06%) Postman
4 48 (29.81%) Jenkins
5 43 (26.71%) LoadRunner
6 42 (26.09%) Cucumber
6 42 (26.09%) JIRA
7 41 (25.47%) GitLab
8 31 (19.25%) JUnit
9 29 (18.01%) Git
10 27 (16.77%) WebDriver
11 21 (13.04%) REST Assured
12 13 (8.07%) Cypress.io
13 8 (4.97%) TestNG
14 7 (4.35%) Maven
15 6 (3.73%) MSTest
15 6 (3.73%) NeoLoad
15 6 (3.73%) Newman
16 4 (2.48%) Appium
16 4 (2.48%) Browser DevTools
General
1 46 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.73%) Finance
5 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.86%) Banking
6 3 (1.86%) Military
6 3 (1.86%) Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.62%) Law
7 1 (0.62%) Legal
7 1 (0.62%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.62%) Police
7 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (35.40%) Tester
2 37 (22.98%) Senior
3 35 (21.74%) Test Engineer
4 27 (16.77%) Performance Engineer
5 26 (16.15%) Lead
6 19 (11.80%) Automation Tester
7 17 (10.56%) Performance Tester
7 17 (10.56%) Test Leader
8 16 (9.94%) Senior Tester
9 15 (9.32%) Performance Test Engineer
10 14 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (6.83%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (6.21%) Senior Automation Tester
13 8 (4.97%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (4.97%) QA Engineer
14 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.35%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 6 (3.73%) Performance Test Leader
15 6 (3.73%) Systems Tester
16 5 (3.11%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.77%) REST
1 27 (16.77%) Spring
2 24 (14.91%) WireMock
3 19 (11.80%) Playwright
4 11 (6.83%) .NET
4 11 (6.83%) RESTful
5 10 (6.21%) Swagger
6 9 (5.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (4.35%) Gherkin
7 7 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (4.35%) Web Services
8 6 (3.73%) Kafka
8 6 (3.73%) OpenID
9 5 (3.11%) JSON
9 5 (3.11%) React
9 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.48%) ADO
10 4 (2.48%) LDAP
10 4 (2.48%) SailPoint
10 4 (2.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.45%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.48%) NHS
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.24%) Equities
8 2 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 105 (65.22%) Test Automation
3 92 (57.14%) Performance Testing
4 71 (44.10%) Agile
5 58 (36.02%) DevOps
5 58 (36.02%) Test Strategy
6 47 (29.19%) Validation
7 42 (26.09%) Observability
8 41 (25.47%) Load Testing
9 39 (24.22%) Microservices
10 35 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (21.74%) Non-Functional Testing
11 31 (19.25%) API Testing
11 31 (19.25%) Containerisation
12 30 (18.63%) BDD
13 29 (18.01%) Scenario Testing
14 28 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
15 24 (14.91%) Performance Engineering
15 24 (14.91%) TDD
16 19 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.09%) Java
2 36 (22.36%) Python
3 30 (18.63%) SQL
4 21 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.18%) C#
6 12 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.97%) Bash
8 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 4 (2.48%) Cypher
10 4 (2.48%) Ruby
10 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.86%) Bicep
11 3 (1.86%) Go
11 3 (1.86%) Groovy
11 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.24%) VB
13 1 (0.62%) C
13 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (40.37%) Security Cleared
2 53 (32.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.94%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.36%) QA
2 17 (10.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.86%) NIST
5 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.24%) SLA
5 2 (1.24%) WCAG
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 48 (29.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (25.47%) Grafana
3 34 (21.12%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.21%) Kibana
5 7 (4.35%) Ansible
6 5 (3.11%) Terraform
7 4 (2.48%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.24%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.62%) Consul
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) Dynatrace
2 22 (13.66%) Splunk
3 15 (9.32%) AppDynamics
4 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.07%) New Relic
5 8 (4.97%) Google
6 7 (4.35%) Oracle
7 6 (3.73%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.48%) HP
8 4 (2.48%) IBM
8 4 (2.48%) Informatica
8 4 (2.48%) SAP
9 3 (1.86%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.86%) OpenText
10 2 (1.24%) Charles River
10 2 (1.24%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.62%) Citrix
11 1 (0.62%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.62%) Solace
11 1 (0.62%) Workday