JMeter Contract Job Trends

Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JMeter skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 450 517
Rank change year-on-year -44 +67 +35
Contract jobs citing JMeter 74 109 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.48% 2.13% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 67 106
10th Percentile £313 £363 £366
25th Percentile £400 £419 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £536 £588 £584
90th Percentile £596 £610 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +3.90%
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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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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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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 18 September 2025.

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 14 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 18 September 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 -21 61 £425 -10.53% 35
London +2 37 £485 +2.11% 17
Work from Home +19 29 £455 -4.21% 21
UK excluding London -21 25 £425 -10.53% 26
North of England -8 10 £425 -5.03% 3
Yorkshire -11 7 £425 +1.19% 1
Midlands -18 6 £450 +24.14% 2
East of England - 5 £400 - 4
East Midlands 0 4 £444 +22.41% 1
South East +13 3 £385 -16.76% 15
North West -14 2 £325 -31.58% 2
West Midlands -14 2 £460 +24.32% 1
South West +14 1 £325 -50.00%
North East - 1 £525 -

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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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.35%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Shopify
2 1 (1.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 20 (27.03%) GitHub
3 18 (24.32%) AWS
3 18 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (20.27%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (10.81%) GCP
5 8 (10.81%) OpenShift
6 7 (9.46%) Serverless
7 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (6.76%) BrowserStack
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.41%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.05%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) SSH
2 1 (1.35%) DSL
2 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.41%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.05%) MySQL
4 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Looker
6 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (54.05%) Selenium
2 34 (45.95%) Jenkins
3 26 (35.14%) Postman
4 24 (32.43%) Cucumber
5 20 (27.03%) LoadRunner
6 19 (25.68%) JUnit
7 18 (24.32%) Cypress.io
7 18 (24.32%) Gatling
7 18 (24.32%) REST Assured
8 17 (22.97%) GitLab
8 17 (22.97%) JIRA
9 13 (17.57%) Git
10 11 (14.86%) TestNG
11 7 (9.46%) Locust
11 7 (9.46%) Maven
12 6 (8.11%) Mockito
12 6 (8.11%) NeoLoad
13 5 (6.76%) Appium
13 5 (6.76%) SonarQube
14 4 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (27.03%) Finance
2 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Military
8 1 (1.35%) Police
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Developer
2 14 (18.92%) Test Engineer
2 14 (18.92%) Tester
3 11 (14.86%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Lead
5 9 (12.16%) QA Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.46%) Test Leader
7 6 (8.11%) Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Senior
7 6 (8.11%) Test Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Performance Tester
9 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Automation Test Lead
10 3 (4.05%) Developer in Test
10 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) Playwright
2 18 (24.32%) REST
3 12 (16.22%) Kafka
3 12 (16.22%) RESTful
3 12 (16.22%) Spring
4 11 (14.86%) JSON
5 8 (10.81%) Spring Boot
6 7 (9.46%) Hibernate
6 7 (9.46%) HTML
7 6 (8.11%) pytest
8 5 (6.76%) WireMock
8 5 (6.76%) XML
9 4 (5.41%) .NET
9 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
9 4 (5.41%) scikit-learn
9 4 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
9 4 (5.41%) Web Services
10 3 (4.05%) CSS
10 3 (4.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) FMCG
2 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.05%) Life Science
2 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Test Automation
2 48 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 43 (58.11%) Performance Testing
4 39 (52.70%) Agile
5 37 (50.00%) DevOps
6 26 (35.14%) API Testing
7 19 (25.68%) Test Strategy
8 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (24.32%) Test Scripting
9 16 (21.62%) Microservices
9 16 (21.62%) Validation
10 15 (20.27%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (17.57%) BDD
11 13 (17.57%) TDD
12 11 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (14.86%) Software Testing
13 10 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (13.51%) Containerisation
13 10 (13.51%) Integration Testing
14 9 (12.16%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) Java
2 21 (28.38%) JavaScript
3 20 (27.03%) Python
4 9 (12.16%) C#
4 9 (12.16%) SQL
5 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.70%) Bash
7 2 (2.70%) PHP
7 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.35%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CEH
7 1 (1.35%) CISSP
7 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.49%) QA
2 10 (13.51%) Accessibility
3 9 (12.16%) WCAG
4 4 (5.41%) GDPR
5 3 (4.05%) GxP
5 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.46%) Terraform
3 6 (8.11%) Ansible
3 6 (8.11%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.76%) Kibana
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.35%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) logstash
6 1 (1.35%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Salt
6 1 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Dynatrace
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.76%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.41%) New Relic
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle
3 4 (5.41%) SAP
3 4 (5.41%) Splunk
3 4 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) HP
5 2 (2.70%) Nintex
5 2 (2.70%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Ariba
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.35%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.35%) UiPath