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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 430 446
Rank change year-on-year -63 +16 +94
Contract jobs citing JMeter 157 95 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.65% 2.21% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 60 103
10th Percentile £350 £292 £363
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £518 £563
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 5,934 4,301 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.61% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,840 2,874 3,526
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £686 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 81 233
10th Percentile £34.90 £20.85 £31.34
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -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 12 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 12 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 -77 126 £450 -5.26% 14
UK excluding London -46 79 £450 - 10
London -62 57 £461 -5.54% 7
Work from Home -37 53 £450 +2.86% 7
Midlands -35 36 £438 -3.85% 3
West Midlands -31 33 £450 -4.56% 1
North of England -73 14 £500 +17.65% 2
South West -13 11 £450 +38.46%
Wales - 9 £475 -
Yorkshire -55 8 £489 +15.06% 1
North West -31 5 £500 +53.85%
South East -72 5 £313 - 3
East Midlands -21 3 £418 -7.22% 2
Scotland -7 2 - - 2
East of England -25 2 £450 +12.50%
North East - 1 - - 1

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 (18.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.68%) Azure
2 73 (46.50%) AWS
3 56 (35.67%) GitHub
4 40 (25.48%) GCP
5 33 (21.02%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.10%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.18%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.27%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.27%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.27%) SaaS
11 2 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.46%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.55%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.91%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.27%) MySQL
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.27%) Power BI
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.64%) Db2
6 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (40.13%) Selenium
2 57 (36.31%) Gatling
3 49 (31.21%) Jenkins
4 47 (29.94%) Postman
5 43 (27.39%) LoadRunner
6 42 (26.75%) JIRA
7 40 (25.48%) Cucumber
8 39 (24.84%) GitLab
9 31 (19.75%) JUnit
10 29 (18.47%) Git
11 28 (17.83%) WebDriver
12 22 (14.01%) REST Assured
13 13 (8.28%) Cypress.io
14 8 (5.10%) TestNG
15 6 (3.82%) MSTest
15 6 (3.82%) Newman
16 5 (3.18%) NeoLoad
17 4 (2.55%) Appium
17 4 (2.55%) Browser DevTools
17 4 (2.55%) SoapUI
General
1 46 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Finance
5 6 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.55%) Retail
7 3 (1.91%) Banking
7 3 (1.91%) Military
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Law
8 1 (0.64%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Police
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (33.76%) Tester
2 36 (22.93%) Senior
3 33 (21.02%) Test Engineer
4 26 (16.56%) Lead
4 26 (16.56%) Performance Engineer
5 17 (10.83%) Performance Tester
5 17 (10.83%) Test Leader
6 16 (10.19%) Automation Tester
7 15 (9.55%) Senior Tester
8 13 (8.28%) Performance Test Engineer
8 13 (8.28%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (5.10%) Automation Test Lead
11 8 (5.10%) QA Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Performance Test Leader
12 6 (3.82%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.92%) Spring
2 24 (15.29%) REST
3 21 (13.38%) WireMock
4 19 (12.10%) Playwright
5 11 (7.01%) RESTful
6 10 (6.37%) .NET
6 10 (6.37%) Swagger
7 8 (5.10%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (4.46%) Gherkin
8 7 (4.46%) Kafka
8 7 (4.46%) Web Services
9 6 (3.82%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (3.82%) OpenID
9 6 (3.82%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.18%) JSON
10 5 (3.18%) React
11 4 (2.55%) ADO
11 4 (2.55%) LDAP
11 4 (2.55%) SailPoint
11 4 (2.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.19%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.55%) NHS
7 3 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Equities
8 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.64%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (70.70%) CI/CD
2 102 (64.97%) Test Automation
3 92 (58.60%) Performance Testing
4 70 (44.59%) Agile
5 57 (36.31%) Test Strategy
6 56 (35.67%) DevOps
7 47 (29.94%) Validation
8 41 (26.11%) Load Testing
8 41 (26.11%) Observability
9 40 (25.48%) Microservices
10 35 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (21.02%) Non-Functional Testing
12 32 (20.38%) API Testing
13 31 (19.75%) Containerisation
14 29 (18.47%) Scenario Testing
15 28 (17.83%) End-to-End Testing
16 27 (17.20%) BDD
17 24 (15.29%) Performance Engineering
17 24 (15.29%) TDD
18 19 (12.10%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.48%) Java
2 36 (22.93%) Python
3 30 (19.11%) SQL
4 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.83%) C#
6 12 (7.64%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.10%) Bash
8 6 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.18%) Scala
9 5 (3.18%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.55%) Cypher
10 4 (2.55%) Ruby
11 3 (1.91%) Bicep
11 3 (1.91%) Go
11 3 (1.91%) Groovy
11 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.27%) VB
13 1 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (40.76%) Security Cleared
2 52 (33.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Degree
7 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.29%) QA
2 17 (10.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.91%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) WCAG
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (31.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (35.03%) Kubernetes
2 40 (25.48%) Grafana
3 33 (21.02%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.10%) Kibana
5 7 (4.46%) Ansible
6 5 (3.18%) Terraform
7 4 (2.55%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.27%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.64%) Consul
Vendors
1 25 (15.92%) Dynatrace
2 20 (12.74%) Splunk
3 15 (9.55%) AppDynamics
4 14 (8.92%) New Relic
5 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.10%) Google
7 6 (3.82%) Oracle
7 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.55%) HP
8 4 (2.55%) IBM
8 4 (2.55%) Informatica
8 4 (2.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.91%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.91%) OpenText
10 2 (1.27%) Charles River
10 2 (1.27%) Confluent
10 2 (1.27%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.64%) Citrix
11 1 (0.64%) Parasoft
11 1 (0.64%) Workday