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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 427 457
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 +70
Contract jobs citing JMeter 138 100 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.39% 2.42% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 58 96
10th Percentile £321 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £465
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +3.01% -9.00%
75th Percentile £513 £561 £538
90th Percentile £574 £798 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £425
% change year-on-year -2.17% +8.24% -15.00%
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 5,766 4,128 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.22% 14.09% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 2,751 3,468
10th Percentile £349 £340 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 71 202
10th Percentile £36.65 £27.50 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.63 £50.00 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £80.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -82 111 £450 -7.46% 19
UK excluding London -54 77 £450 -2.17% 18
Work from Home -20 45 £425 -2.86% 10
London -68 41 £445 -8.72% 7
Midlands -49 30 £450 -1.10% 3
West Midlands -39 28 £450 -4.56% 1
North of England -58 14 £488 -2.50% 1
South West -24 11 £450 +38.46%
South East -51 10 £344 - 8
Wales - 9 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -45 8 £489 +5.73%
North West -38 4 £500 -
East of England -37 3 £450 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -32 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £475 - 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 26 (18.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (48.55%) Azure
2 58 (42.03%) AWS
3 47 (34.06%) GitHub
4 37 (26.81%) GCP
5 30 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.80%) BlazeMeter
7 8 (5.80%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.62%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.17%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.45%) SaaS
11 2 (1.45%) Serverless
12 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.62%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.90%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.17%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.45%) MySQL
5 2 (1.45%) Power BI
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.72%) DB2
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (43.48%) Selenium
2 46 (33.33%) Gatling
3 44 (31.88%) Jenkins
4 43 (31.16%) JIRA
5 42 (30.43%) Postman
6 41 (29.71%) Cucumber
7 39 (28.26%) GitLab
8 34 (24.64%) LoadRunner
9 30 (21.74%) JUnit
10 29 (21.01%) Git
11 25 (18.12%) WebDriver
12 20 (14.49%) REST Assured
13 10 (7.25%) Cypress.io
14 7 (5.07%) Appium
14 7 (5.07%) TestNG
15 6 (4.35%) MSTest
15 6 (4.35%) Newman
16 5 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (2.90%) NeoLoad
17 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.01%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Finance
5 7 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.45%) Military
6 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.72%) Banking
7 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.72%) Police
7 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (31.16%) Tester
2 30 (21.74%) Test Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Senior
4 22 (15.94%) Lead
5 21 (15.22%) Performance Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) Automation Tester
7 14 (10.14%) Test Leader
8 13 (9.42%) Performance Tester
8 13 (9.42%) Senior Tester
8 13 (9.42%) Test Automation Engineer
9 12 (8.70%) Developer
10 9 (6.52%) Performance Test Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Senior Automation Tester
11 7 (5.07%) Senior Test Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Performance Test Leader
12 6 (4.35%) QA Engineer
13 4 (2.90%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.84%) Spring
2 24 (17.39%) REST
3 17 (12.32%) Playwright
4 16 (11.59%) WireMock
5 11 (7.97%) Kafka
6 8 (5.80%) RESTful
7 7 (5.07%) Gherkin
7 7 (5.07%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.07%) Swagger
7 7 (5.07%) Web Services
8 6 (4.35%) JSON
9 5 (3.62%) OpenID
9 5 (3.62%) React
9 5 (3.62%) WebdriverIO
10 4 (2.90%) LDAP
10 4 (2.90%) SailPoint
11 3 (2.17%) .NET
11 3 (2.17%) ADO
11 3 (2.17%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.42%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.90%) NHS
6 3 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.07%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Android
2 4 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (71.01%) CI/CD
2 91 (65.94%) Test Automation
3 88 (63.77%) Performance Testing
4 70 (50.72%) Agile
5 51 (36.96%) DevOps
6 42 (30.43%) Test Strategy
7 37 (26.81%) Validation
8 35 (25.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (25.36%) Load Testing
9 31 (22.46%) API Testing
10 30 (21.74%) Microservices
11 28 (20.29%) Observability
12 26 (18.84%) Test Scripting
13 25 (18.12%) Non-Functional Testing
14 24 (17.39%) Containerisation
14 24 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
15 23 (16.67%) BDD
16 21 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (15.22%) TDD
17 20 (14.49%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.16%) Java
2 29 (21.01%) SQL
3 27 (19.57%) Python
4 25 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.52%) C#
7 5 (3.62%) Scala
7 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.90%) Bash
8 4 (2.90%) Cypher
8 4 (2.90%) Ruby
9 3 (2.17%) Go
9 3 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.45%) VB
11 1 (0.72%) Korn
11 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (34.06%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.45%) Degree
6 2 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (26.09%) QA
2 17 (12.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.17%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (34.06%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.01%) Grafana
3 22 (15.94%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.07%) Ansible
5 4 (2.90%) HP ALM
5 4 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.90%) Terraform
6 3 (2.17%) Kibana
7 2 (1.45%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.72%) Consul
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (15.94%) Dynatrace
2 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.87%) AppDynamics
3 15 (10.87%) New Relic
4 13 (9.42%) Splunk
5 8 (5.80%) Google
6 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.90%) HP
7 4 (2.90%) Oracle
7 4 (2.90%) SAP
7 4 (2.90%) VMware
8 3 (2.17%) Braze
8 3 (2.17%) Micro Focus
8 3 (2.17%) OpenText
8 3 (2.17%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.45%) Confluent
9 2 (1.45%) IBM
9 2 (1.45%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.72%) Ingenico
10 1 (0.72%) Solace