JMeter Contracts

Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JMeter skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMeter over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 467 531
Rank change year-on-year +20 +64 -18
Contract jobs citing JMeter 92 123 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.01% 2.29% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 85 116
10th Percentile £293 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -10.80% +6.50%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £614
90th Percentile £798 £600 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.75 -
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -
75th Percentile - £40.25 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
% 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 4,567 5,362 7,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.33% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 3,565 5,520
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 232
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 3 July 2025. 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 +35 82 £475 - 72
London +34 51 £488 +2.63% 30
Work from Home +11 37 £428 -9.28% 56
UK excluding London +23 34 £438 -7.89% 61
North of England +11 15 £425 - 13
Yorkshire +8 12 £425 - 5
Midlands +14 8 £455 -6.91% 2
West Midlands +13 6 £472 -10.19%
East of England - 5 £400 - 10
South East +33 4 - - 18
North West +8 3 £325 -31.58% 7
East Midlands -2 2 £450 -0.55% 2
South West +28 1 £325 -35.00% 1
Scotland -4 1 £500 -20.00% 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.43%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.17%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.17%) Shopify
1 2 (2.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) Azure
2 27 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.83%) AWS
4 18 (19.57%) GitHub
5 8 (8.70%) GCP
6 7 (7.61%) BrowserStack
6 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.43%) Datadog
8 4 (4.35%) Serverless
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.26%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.17%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.17%) NuGet
10 2 (2.17%) PaaS
10 2 (2.17%) SaaS
10 2 (2.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) SSH
2 2 (2.17%) DSL
2 2 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (1.09%) Multicast
3 1 (1.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.26%) MySQL
3 3 (3.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.17%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (46.74%) Selenium
2 35 (38.04%) Jenkins
3 34 (36.96%) LoadRunner
4 28 (30.43%) Postman
5 22 (23.91%) Cypress.io
6 21 (22.83%) JIRA
7 20 (21.74%) REST Assured
8 18 (19.57%) GitLab
9 17 (18.48%) Gatling
10 14 (15.22%) Git
11 13 (14.13%) Cucumber
12 11 (11.96%) TestNG
13 8 (8.70%) JUnit
13 8 (8.70%) NeoLoad
14 7 (7.61%) Appium
15 6 (6.52%) CircleCI
16 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
16 5 (5.43%) Maven
16 5 (5.43%) SpecFlow
17 4 (4.35%) Serenity BDD
General
1 34 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Banking
5 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Law
6 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Police
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Test Engineer
2 24 (26.09%) Tester
3 16 (17.39%) QA Engineer
4 15 (16.30%) Lead
5 14 (15.22%) Analyst
5 14 (15.22%) Test Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Automation Tester
7 10 (10.87%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
7 10 (10.87%) QA Analyst
7 10 (10.87%) QA Test Analyst
7 10 (10.87%) Senior
8 8 (8.70%) Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (8.70%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) QA Test Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Test Leader
9 6 (6.52%) Performance Tester
10 5 (5.43%) Performance Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Performance Test Consultant
10 5 (5.43%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) Playwright
2 10 (10.87%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (6.52%) Kafka
3 6 (6.52%) WireMock
4 5 (5.43%) Gherkin
4 5 (5.43%) RESTful
4 5 (5.43%) Spring
4 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.35%) Play Framework
5 4 (4.35%) REST
6 3 (3.26%) .NET
6 3 (3.26%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.26%) HTML
6 3 (3.26%) JSON
6 3 (3.26%) Web Services
7 2 (2.17%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (2.17%) Apache Camel
7 2 (2.17%) jQuery
7 2 (2.17%) VML
7 2 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) FMCG
3 3 (3.26%) Life Science
3 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.17%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.17%) Replication
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.13%) Linux
2 11 (11.96%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (68.48%) Test Automation
2 56 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 56 (60.87%) Performance Testing
3 46 (50.00%) DevOps
4 45 (48.91%) Agile
5 32 (34.78%) API Testing
5 32 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (30.43%) Test Scripting
6 28 (30.43%) Test Strategy
7 26 (28.26%) Non-Functional Testing
8 18 (19.57%) Scrum
8 18 (19.57%) Software Testing
9 15 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (14.13%) Microservices
11 13 (14.13%) Regression Testing
11 13 (14.13%) Validation
12 11 (11.96%) BDD
12 11 (11.96%) Defect Management
12 11 (11.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.48%) Java
2 33 (35.87%) JavaScript
3 27 (29.35%) Python
4 19 (20.65%) C#
5 15 (16.30%) SQL
6 12 (13.04%) Bash
7 11 (11.96%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.70%) VB
9 4 (4.35%) C++
9 4 (4.35%) PHP
9 4 (4.35%) Ruby
9 4 (4.35%) Scala
10 2 (2.17%) Go
10 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.17%) RPG
10 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) ISTQB
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) CEH
6 3 (3.26%) CISSP
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (46.74%) QA
2 12 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.78%) WCAG
4 4 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (3.26%) GxP
6 2 (2.17%) GDPR
7 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (18.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Kibana
2 7 (7.61%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) Perfmon
4 5 (5.43%) Ansible
5 4 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.35%) Puppet
6 3 (3.26%) Grafana
7 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Dynatrace
2 8 (8.70%) New Relic
3 7 (7.61%) SAP
4 5 (5.43%) Splunk
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.17%) Adobe
7 2 (2.17%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.17%) Nintex
7 2 (2.17%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.09%) Ariba
8 1 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.09%) Databricks
8 1 (1.09%) HP
8 1 (1.09%) Ingenico
8 1 (1.09%) Okta