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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 479 452
Rank change year-on-year -35 -27 +70
Contract jobs citing JMeter 152 74 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.45% 1.49% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 54 67
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £575 £670 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.53% -7.32%
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 6,210 4,977 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.47% 15.23% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,976 3,351 3,272
10th Percentile £355 £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 £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 177
10th Percentile £25.40 £30.75 £29.14
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £87.50 £72.63
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 14 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 14 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 -57 124 £475 +8.57% 50
London -50 72 £500 +1.52% 29
UK excluding London -74 50 £438 +3.06% 29
Work from Home -42 49 £450 -1.10% 26
North of England -65 20 £411 -3.29% 6
Yorkshire -26 15 £413 -2.94% 3
Midlands -39 14 £525 +16.67% 3
West Midlands -36 12 £525 +14.13% 2
South West -41 6 - - 3
South East -50 6 £336 - 9
North West -51 3 £411 +26.46% 3
Scotland - 3 £500 - 4
East Midlands -18 2 £428 -3.61% 1
North East -38 2 £423 -19.52%
East of England -34 1 £367 -8.25% 3

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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 (9.87%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.82%) AWS
2 50 (32.89%) Azure
3 37 (24.34%) GitHub
4 22 (14.47%) GCP
5 20 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.26%) Serverless
8 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.29%) BlazeMeter
9 5 (3.29%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.97%) Datadog
11 3 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.97%) SaaS
12 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.32%) INAP
2 2 (1.32%) RTP
2 2 (1.32%) tcpdump
2 2 (1.32%) VoIP
2 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.66%) DHCP
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) HTTP
3 1 (0.66%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.26%) Tableau
3 5 (3.29%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.97%) Power BI
6 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.32%) Big Data
6 2 (1.32%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.32%) Db2
6 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (37.50%) Gatling
2 56 (36.84%) LoadRunner
3 44 (28.95%) Postman
4 42 (27.63%) Jenkins
5 41 (26.97%) Selenium
6 31 (20.39%) GitLab
7 29 (19.08%) Cucumber
8 28 (18.42%) JIRA
9 20 (13.16%) NeoLoad
10 19 (12.50%) Git
11 17 (11.18%) Cypress.io
12 16 (10.53%) JUnit
12 16 (10.53%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.89%) SoapUI
14 11 (7.24%) WebDriver
15 8 (5.26%) TestNG
16 7 (4.61%) eggPlant
16 7 (4.61%) SonarQube
17 6 (3.95%) Maven
17 6 (3.95%) Newman
General
1 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.55%) Finance
5 12 (7.89%) Banking
6 5 (3.29%) Retail
7 3 (1.97%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Billing
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Police
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 45 (29.61%) Test Engineer
2 44 (28.95%) Tester
3 29 (19.08%) Performance Engineer
3 29 (19.08%) Senior
4 23 (15.13%) Lead
5 22 (14.47%) Performance Test Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Performance Tester
7 15 (9.87%) Senior Test Engineer
7 15 (9.87%) Test Leader
8 13 (8.55%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) QA Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Automation Tester
10 9 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Performance Test Leader
11 8 (5.26%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Developer
13 6 (3.95%) Developer in Test
13 6 (3.95%) QA Tester
13 6 (3.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.08%) Playwright
2 25 (16.45%) REST
3 18 (11.84%) Kafka
4 16 (10.53%) .NET
5 11 (7.24%) SOAP
5 11 (7.24%) XML
6 10 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (6.58%) Spring
6 10 (6.58%) Web Services
7 9 (5.92%) WireMock
8 8 (5.26%) pytest
8 8 (5.26%) Swagger
9 7 (4.61%) Middleware
9 7 (4.61%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (4.61%) RESTful
10 6 (3.95%) HTML
10 6 (3.95%) JSON
10 6 (3.95%) Terraform
11 5 (3.29%) OpenID
12 4 (2.63%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.66%) Contactless
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.92%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Unix
3 3 (1.97%) Windows
4 2 (1.32%) CentOS
4 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (66.45%) CI/CD
2 93 (61.18%) Performance Testing
2 93 (61.18%) Test Automation
3 63 (41.45%) DevOps
4 58 (38.16%) Test Strategy
5 53 (34.87%) Agile
6 36 (23.68%) Non-Functional Testing
7 35 (23.03%) Validation
8 34 (22.37%) Observability
9 29 (19.08%) API Testing
9 29 (19.08%) Containerisation
10 27 (17.76%) Microservices
10 27 (17.76%) Scenario Testing
10 27 (17.76%) Test Scripting
11 26 (17.11%) Load Testing
12 23 (15.13%) Performance Engineering
13 20 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
13 20 (13.16%) Mentoring
13 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (11.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 54 (35.53%) Python
2 48 (31.58%) Java
3 37 (24.34%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.76%) SQL
5 16 (10.53%) C#
6 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.55%) Bash
8 6 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.29%) Scala
10 3 (1.97%) Cypher
10 3 (1.97%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.32%) Bicep
11 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.32%) Ruby
11 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.66%) C++
12 1 (0.66%) Groovy
12 1 (0.66%) Korn
Qualifications
1 65 (42.76%) Security Cleared
2 60 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.63%) ISEB
6 3 (1.97%) Degree
6 3 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.32%) MOS
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (30.26%) QA
2 17 (11.18%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.63%) WCAG
5 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.97%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (25.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (29.61%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.34%) Grafana
3 19 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.58%) Ansible
5 7 (4.61%) Kibana
6 5 (3.29%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.63%) Control-M
8 2 (1.32%) Packer
9 1 (0.66%) Consul
9 1 (0.66%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (21.71%) Dynatrace
2 27 (17.76%) Splunk
3 20 (13.16%) AppDynamics
4 18 (11.84%) New Relic
5 15 (9.87%) IBM
6 12 (7.89%) Oracle
7 9 (5.92%) Google
8 5 (3.29%) Databricks
8 5 (3.29%) SAP
9 4 (2.63%) Informatica
10 3 (1.97%) Charles River
10 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.32%) Dialogic
11 2 (1.32%) Foundry
11 2 (1.32%) Metaswitch
11 2 (1.32%) Solace
12 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.66%) Confluent
12 1 (0.66%) Parasoft
12 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow