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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 481 466
Rank change year-on-year -11 -15 +48
Contract jobs citing JMeter 169 76 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.68% 1.55% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 53 69
10th Percentile £331 £287 £362
25th Percentile £413 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -3.16% -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% -5.00%
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 6,312 4,903 4,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.91% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,046 3,312 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 214
10th Percentile £31.50 £26.23 £28.98
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £85.10 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%

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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 8 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 8 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 -33 140 £463 +0.54% 26
UK excluding London -42 78 £450 +5.88% 15
London -45 68 £500 -4.31% 12
Work from Home -37 57 £450 +5.88% 12
Midlands -24 32 £432 -4.11% 3
West Midlands -27 29 £450 +38.46% 1
North of England -73 15 £500 +18.34% 3
South West -34 11 £450 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -36 11 £548 +28.82% 2
South East -56 8 £305 - 7
Wales - 7 £475 -
East Midlands -10 3 £428 -4.94% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England -19 2 £450 +12.50% 1
North West -44 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 29 (17.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.60%) AWS
2 67 (39.64%) Azure
3 46 (27.22%) GitHub
4 39 (23.08%) GCP
5 25 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.96%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.96%) SaaS
7 5 (2.96%) Serverless
8 4 (2.37%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.78%) Datadog
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.18%) Kong
10 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) HTTP
2 3 (1.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.37%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.18%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.18%) Db2
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.18%) Power BI
6 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.18%) Tableau
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (39.64%) Gatling
2 58 (34.32%) LoadRunner
3 56 (33.14%) Selenium
4 43 (25.44%) Jenkins
5 39 (23.08%) Cucumber
5 39 (23.08%) JIRA
6 36 (21.30%) Postman
7 32 (18.93%) GitLab
8 29 (17.16%) Git
9 28 (16.57%) JUnit
10 24 (14.20%) WebDriver
11 18 (10.65%) NeoLoad
12 15 (8.88%) REST Assured
13 13 (7.69%) Cypress.io
14 7 (4.14%) Maven
15 6 (3.55%) MSTest
15 6 (3.55%) SoapUI
15 6 (3.55%) TestNG
16 5 (2.96%) Zephyr
17 4 (2.37%) Appium
General
1 47 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (15.98%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.33%) Finance
3 9 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.96%) Banking
5 5 (2.96%) Retail
6 3 (1.78%) Military
7 2 (1.18%) Billing
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Legal
8 1 (0.59%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) Tester
2 37 (21.89%) Senior
2 37 (21.89%) Test Engineer
3 32 (18.93%) Performance Engineer
4 26 (15.38%) Lead
5 23 (13.61%) Performance Tester
6 20 (11.83%) Performance Test Engineer
6 20 (11.83%) Test Leader
7 16 (9.47%) Automation Tester
7 16 (9.47%) Senior Tester
8 13 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
9 10 (5.92%) Performance Test Leader
9 10 (5.92%) Senior Automation Tester
9 10 (5.92%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Automation Test Lead
12 7 (4.14%) Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Performance Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.79%) Spring
2 24 (14.20%) REST
2 24 (14.20%) WireMock
3 19 (11.24%) Playwright
4 11 (6.51%) .NET
5 10 (5.92%) Web Services
6 9 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (5.33%) Swagger
7 8 (4.73%) Kafka
7 8 (4.73%) XML
8 7 (4.14%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (3.55%) JSON
9 6 (3.55%) RESTful
10 5 (2.96%) OpenID
10 5 (2.96%) pytest
10 5 (2.96%) SOAP
11 4 (2.37%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.37%) Node.js
11 4 (2.37%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (10.06%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (4.14%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.37%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.37%) NHS
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) Equities
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (68.05%) CI/CD
2 99 (58.58%) Performance Testing
3 97 (57.40%) Test Automation
4 71 (42.01%) Test Strategy
5 67 (39.64%) Agile
5 67 (39.64%) DevOps
6 48 (28.40%) Validation
7 47 (27.81%) Load Testing
8 45 (26.63%) Observability
9 43 (25.44%) Microservices
10 39 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
11 32 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (18.34%) End-to-End Testing
13 30 (17.75%) Performance Engineering
14 29 (17.16%) BDD
15 28 (16.57%) Containerisation
16 27 (15.98%) Scenario Testing
17 23 (13.61%) API Testing
17 23 (13.61%) TDD
18 22 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.22%) Java
1 46 (27.22%) Python
2 31 (18.34%) SQL
3 27 (15.98%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.65%) C#
5 12 (7.10%) Bash
6 10 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.96%) Scala
9 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.78%) Cypher
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
11 2 (1.18%) Bicep
11 2 (1.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.59%) C
12 1 (0.59%) Korn
12 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (39.05%) Security Cleared
2 57 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.33%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) ISEB
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.30%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.78%) WCAG
6 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (31.95%) Kubernetes
2 50 (29.59%) Grafana
3 33 (19.53%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.92%) Kibana
5 7 (4.14%) Ansible
6 5 (2.96%) Terraform
7 1 (0.59%) Consul
7 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (21.89%) Dynatrace
2 28 (16.57%) AppDynamics
3 27 (15.98%) Splunk
4 20 (11.83%) New Relic
5 12 (7.10%) Google
6 7 (4.14%) IBM
6 7 (4.14%) Oracle
7 6 (3.55%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.37%) Informatica
9 3 (1.78%) Charles River
9 3 (1.78%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.78%) OpenText
10 2 (1.18%) Confluent
10 2 (1.18%) Databricks
10 2 (1.18%) SAP
10 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.18%) Solace
11 1 (0.59%) HP
11 1 (0.59%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.59%) Parasoft