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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 491 445
Rank change year-on-year -27 -46 +52
Contract jobs citing JMeter 167 69 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 1.38% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 49 69
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £408 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -5.74% -2.40%
75th Percentile £553 £540 £580
90th Percentile £575 £720 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +4.18% -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 6,176 4,989 5,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.14% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 3,360 3,265
10th Percentile £355 £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 £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 114 182
10th Percentile £35.63 £28.59 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £71.42 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £86.83 £71.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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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 30 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 30 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 -27 138 £469 +4.17% 37
London -38 74 £500 - 17
UK excluding London -52 66 £443 +4.18% 29
Work from Home -33 53 £450 -2.17% 18
Midlands -35 20 £525 +16.67% 4
North of England -62 20 £411 -3.29% 7
West Midlands -28 18 £525 +14.13% 4
Yorkshire -38 15 £413 -2.94% 3
South West -32 11 £450 +38.46% 5
South East -56 7 £297 - 14
North West -55 3 £411 +26.46% 4
Wales - 3 £700 -
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -13 2 £428 -4.94%
East of England -26 2 £450 +12.50% 1
North East -36 2 £423 -19.52% 1

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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 17 (10.18%) Confluence
2 6 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.72%) AWS
2 58 (34.73%) Azure
3 44 (26.35%) GitHub
4 27 (16.17%) GCP
5 22 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.19%) Serverless
8 6 (3.59%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.99%) SaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.80%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.80%) Datadog
11 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.79%) Tableau
3 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.59%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.80%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.20%) Big Data
8 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.20%) Db2
8 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 65 (38.92%) LoadRunner
2 61 (36.53%) Gatling
3 54 (32.34%) Selenium
4 45 (26.95%) Postman
5 43 (25.75%) Jenkins
6 34 (20.36%) GitLab
7 32 (19.16%) Cucumber
8 29 (17.37%) JIRA
9 21 (12.57%) Git
10 20 (11.98%) NeoLoad
11 18 (10.78%) JUnit
11 18 (10.78%) REST Assured
12 17 (10.18%) Cypress.io
13 14 (8.38%) WebDriver
14 12 (7.19%) SoapUI
15 7 (4.19%) eggPlant
15 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
15 7 (4.19%) TestNG
16 6 (3.59%) Maven
16 6 (3.59%) MSTest
General
1 38 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.38%) Finance
5 13 (7.78%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Retail
7 3 (1.80%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Billing
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 50 (29.94%) Tester
2 45 (26.95%) Test Engineer
3 38 (22.75%) Senior
4 35 (20.96%) Performance Engineer
5 23 (13.77%) Lead
5 23 (13.77%) Performance Test Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Performance Tester
6 17 (10.18%) Senior Test Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Test Automation Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Test Leader
8 14 (8.38%) Automation Tester
9 12 (7.19%) Senior Tester
10 11 (6.59%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Performance Test Leader
11 8 (4.79%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (4.79%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.17%) Playwright
2 26 (15.57%) REST
3 18 (10.78%) Kafka
4 16 (9.58%) .NET
5 15 (8.98%) Web Services
6 13 (7.78%) Spring
7 12 (7.19%) WireMock
8 11 (6.59%) SOAP
8 11 (6.59%) XML
9 10 (5.99%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (4.79%) pytest
10 8 (4.79%) Swagger
11 7 (4.19%) JSON
11 7 (4.19%) Middleware
11 7 (4.19%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (4.19%) RESTful
12 6 (3.59%) HTML
12 6 (3.59%) Terraform
13 5 (2.99%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.79%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Equities
8 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) Contactless
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) Android
3 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (64.67%) CI/CD
2 100 (59.88%) Test Automation
3 99 (59.28%) Performance Testing
4 72 (43.11%) DevOps
5 63 (37.72%) Test Strategy
6 61 (36.53%) Agile
7 43 (25.75%) Non-Functional Testing
8 38 (22.75%) Observability
9 36 (21.56%) Validation
10 33 (19.76%) Load Testing
11 31 (18.56%) Microservices
12 30 (17.96%) Scenario Testing
13 29 (17.37%) Performance Engineering
14 28 (16.77%) API Testing
14 28 (16.77%) Containerisation
15 25 (14.97%) End-to-End Testing
16 24 (14.37%) Test Scripting
17 21 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 19 (11.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.53%) Python
2 51 (30.54%) Java
3 41 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 39 (23.35%) SQL
5 21 (12.57%) C#
6 14 (8.38%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.78%) Bash
8 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.99%) Scala
10 3 (1.80%) Cypher
10 3 (1.80%) Groovy
10 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (1.20%) Ruby
11 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (43.11%) Security Cleared
2 64 (38.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.99%) ISEB
6 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.75%) QA
2 14 (8.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.80%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (29.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (29.94%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.55%) Grafana
3 22 (13.17%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.39%) Ansible
5 8 (4.79%) Kibana
6 5 (2.99%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.40%) Control-M
8 1 (0.60%) Consul
8 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.60%) Istio
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (23.95%) Dynatrace
2 32 (19.16%) Splunk
3 26 (15.57%) AppDynamics
4 24 (14.37%) New Relic
5 16 (9.58%) IBM
6 12 (7.19%) Oracle
7 9 (5.39%) Google
8 6 (3.59%) Microsoft
8 6 (3.59%) SAP
9 5 (2.99%) Databricks
10 4 (2.40%) Informatica
11 3 (1.80%) Charles River
11 3 (1.80%) Micro Focus
11 3 (1.80%) OpenText
12 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.20%) Solace
13 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.60%) Foundry
13 1 (0.60%) Ingenico
13 1 (0.60%) Salesforce