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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 447 467
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 +65
Contract jobs citing JMeter 168 92 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.76% 2.02% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 61 85
10th Percentile £341 £293 £363
25th Percentile £409 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -10.80%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £540
90th Percentile £575 £798 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% -9.52%
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 6,098 4,565 5,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.60% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,927 3,062 3,565
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 92 248
10th Percentile £26.05 £20.98 £30.28
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -64 138 £450 -5.26% 16
UK excluding London -51 86 £450 +2.86% 9
London -58 61 £463 -5.13% 10
Work from Home -26 59 £450 +5.26% 15
Midlands -33 36 £438 -3.85% 2
West Midlands -35 33 £450 -4.56% 1
North of England -68 18 £500 +17.65% 2
South West -16 11 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire -54 10 £489 +15.06%
Wales - 9 £475 -
South East -56 8 £305 - 4
North West -40 5 £500 +53.85% 1
East Midlands -13 3 £418 -7.22% 1
North East - 3 £423 - 1
Scotland -5 2 - -
East of England -25 2 £450 +12.50%

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 31 (18.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.43%) Azure
2 77 (45.83%) AWS
3 52 (30.95%) GitHub
4 41 (24.40%) GCP
5 29 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.17%) BrowserStack
8 5 (2.98%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.19%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.19%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.19%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.19%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (1.19%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.57%) Neo4j
4 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.19%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.19%) Db2
7 2 (1.19%) MySQL
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.19%) Power BI
7 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (37.50%) Selenium
2 60 (35.71%) Gatling
3 52 (30.95%) Postman
4 49 (29.17%) Jenkins
5 46 (27.38%) LoadRunner
6 44 (26.19%) JIRA
7 42 (25.00%) Cucumber
8 40 (23.81%) GitLab
9 31 (18.45%) JUnit
10 29 (17.26%) Git
11 26 (15.48%) WebDriver
12 21 (12.50%) REST Assured
13 14 (8.33%) Cypress.io
14 11 (6.55%) NeoLoad
15 8 (4.76%) TestNG
16 7 (4.17%) Maven
17 6 (3.57%) MSTest
18 5 (2.98%) Newman
18 5 (2.98%) SoapUI
19 4 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Finance
6 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.38%) Banking
8 3 (1.79%) Military
8 3 (1.79%) Retail
9 2 (1.19%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (36.31%) Tester
2 37 (22.02%) Senior
3 36 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 27 (16.07%) Performance Engineer
5 25 (14.88%) Lead
6 23 (13.69%) Performance Tester
7 18 (10.71%) Test Leader
8 17 (10.12%) Automation Tester
9 16 (9.52%) Senior Tester
10 15 (8.93%) Performance Test Engineer
11 14 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
12 13 (7.74%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.95%) Senior Automation Tester
14 9 (5.36%) QA Engineer
15 8 (4.76%) Automation Test Lead
16 7 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
16 7 (4.17%) Performance Test Leader
16 7 (4.17%) Senior Performance Engineer
17 6 (3.57%) Systems Tester
18 5 (2.98%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.86%) REST
2 28 (16.67%) Spring
3 24 (14.29%) WireMock
4 21 (12.50%) Playwright
5 11 (6.55%) .NET
6 10 (5.95%) RESTful
6 10 (5.95%) Swagger
7 9 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (4.76%) OpenID
8 8 (4.76%) Web Services
9 7 (4.17%) Kafka
9 7 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (3.57%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.57%) JSON
10 6 (3.57%) LDAP
10 6 (3.57%) React
10 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.57%) XML
11 4 (2.38%) pytest
11 4 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.38%) NHS
7 3 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.19%) Equities
8 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (69.05%) CI/CD
2 106 (63.10%) Test Automation
3 93 (55.36%) Performance Testing
4 73 (43.45%) Agile
5 62 (36.90%) DevOps
5 62 (36.90%) Test Strategy
6 51 (30.36%) Validation
7 44 (26.19%) Load Testing
8 42 (25.00%) Observability
9 41 (24.40%) Microservices
10 35 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
11 33 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (18.45%) API Testing
13 30 (17.86%) BDD
14 29 (17.26%) Containerisation
14 29 (17.26%) Scenario Testing
15 28 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
16 27 (16.07%) Performance Engineering
17 26 (15.48%) TDD
18 21 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.57%) Java
2 41 (24.40%) Python
3 33 (19.64%) SQL
4 22 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.71%) C#
6 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.95%) Bash
8 6 (3.57%) Cypher
8 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.98%) Scala
9 5 (2.98%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.79%) Bicep
10 3 (1.79%) Go
10 3 (1.79%) Groovy
10 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.79%) Ruby
11 2 (1.19%) VB
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.79%) Degree
7 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.62%) QA
2 16 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.19%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.19%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (27.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (32.74%) Kubernetes
2 46 (27.38%) Grafana
3 34 (20.24%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.95%) Kibana
5 7 (4.17%) Ansible
6 5 (2.98%) Terraform
7 4 (2.38%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
Vendors
1 28 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 23 (13.69%) Splunk
3 20 (11.90%) AppDynamics
4 14 (8.33%) New Relic
5 11 (6.55%) Google
5 11 (6.55%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.17%) Oracle
7 6 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.38%) HP
8 4 (2.38%) IBM
8 4 (2.38%) Informatica
8 4 (2.38%) SAP
9 3 (1.79%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.79%) OpenText
10 2 (1.19%) Charles River
10 2 (1.19%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.19%) Solace
11 1 (0.60%) Citrix
11 1 (0.60%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.60%) Workday