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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 466 467
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +69
Contract jobs citing JMeter 163 90 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.62% 1.91% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 62 78
10th Percentile £321 £294 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £481
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £569
90th Percentile £575 £798 £602
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
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 6,212 4,717 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,168 3,532
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 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 101 247
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 15 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 15 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 -61 132 £450 -6.83% 17
UK excluding London -57 81 £450 - 19
London -55 60 £463 -5.13% 6
Work from Home -42 57 £450 +5.26% 17
Midlands -28 35 £438 -3.85% 1
West Midlands -38 32 £450 -4.56%
North of England -72 14 £488 +14.71% 2
South West -22 11 £450 +38.46% 1
Wales - 9 £475 - 2
South East -59 8 £305 - 9
Yorkshire -59 6 £320 -24.71% 1
North West -41 5 £500 +53.85% 1
East Midlands -11 3 £418 -7.22% 1
North East - 3 £423 -
Scotland -8 2 - - 2
East of England -24 2 £450 +12.50% 1

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 (19.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Apache
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (45.40%) AWS
2 73 (44.79%) Azure
3 51 (31.29%) GitHub
4 37 (22.70%) GCP
5 29 (17.79%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.68%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.45%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.23%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.23%) SaaS
10 2 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) HTTP
2 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.23%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.23%) Db2
6 2 (1.23%) MySQL
6 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) Power BI
6 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (38.04%) Selenium
2 58 (35.58%) Gatling
3 47 (28.83%) Postman
4 46 (28.22%) Jenkins
5 42 (25.77%) LoadRunner
6 40 (24.54%) Cucumber
7 39 (23.93%) JIRA
8 35 (21.47%) GitLab
9 31 (19.02%) JUnit
10 28 (17.18%) Git
11 26 (15.95%) WebDriver
12 22 (13.50%) REST Assured
13 15 (9.20%) Cypress.io
14 8 (4.91%) TestNG
15 7 (4.29%) Maven
15 7 (4.29%) NeoLoad
16 6 (3.68%) MSTest
17 5 (3.07%) SoapUI
18 4 (2.45%) Appium
18 4 (2.45%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.40%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.68%) Finance
5 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.45%) Banking
7 3 (1.84%) Military
7 3 (1.84%) Retail
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Police
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (37.42%) Tester
2 37 (22.70%) Senior
3 34 (20.86%) Test Engineer
4 27 (16.56%) Performance Engineer
5 24 (14.72%) Performance Tester
6 22 (13.50%) Lead
7 18 (11.04%) Test Leader
8 17 (10.43%) Automation Tester
9 16 (9.82%) Senior Tester
10 15 (9.20%) Performance Test Engineer
11 14 (8.59%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (6.13%) QA Engineer
12 10 (6.13%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (6.13%) Test Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) Performance Test Leader
13 7 (4.29%) Senior Performance Engineer
14 6 (3.68%) Automation Test Lead
14 6 (3.68%) Systems Tester
15 5 (3.07%) Lead Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.18%) Spring
2 27 (16.56%) REST
3 24 (14.72%) WireMock
4 18 (11.04%) Playwright
5 11 (6.75%) .NET
6 10 (6.13%) Swagger
7 9 (5.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (5.52%) RESTful
8 8 (4.91%) Web Services
9 7 (4.29%) Kafka
9 7 (4.29%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (3.68%) JSON
10 6 (3.68%) React
10 6 (3.68%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.68%) XML
11 5 (3.07%) Gherkin
12 4 (2.45%) OpenID
12 4 (2.45%) pytest
13 3 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.82%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.45%) NHS
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.23%) Equities
8 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (68.71%) CI/CD
2 101 (61.96%) Test Automation
3 92 (56.44%) Performance Testing
4 70 (42.94%) Agile
5 58 (35.58%) DevOps
5 58 (35.58%) Test Strategy
6 48 (29.45%) Validation
7 44 (26.99%) Load Testing
8 42 (25.77%) Microservices
8 42 (25.77%) Observability
9 34 (20.86%) Non-Functional Testing
10 32 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (17.18%) API Testing
11 28 (17.18%) BDD
11 28 (17.18%) Performance Engineering
12 27 (16.56%) End-to-End Testing
13 26 (15.95%) TDD
14 25 (15.34%) Containerisation
14 25 (15.34%) Scenario Testing
15 20 (12.27%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.61%) Java
2 39 (23.93%) Python
3 32 (19.63%) SQL
4 22 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.04%) C#
6 11 (6.75%) Bash
7 10 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.84%) Bicep
10 3 (1.84%) Go
10 3 (1.84%) Groovy
10 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.23%) Cypher
11 2 (1.23%) Ruby
11 2 (1.23%) VB
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 53 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.98%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) ISEB
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.47%) QA
2 16 (9.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.23%) SLA
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (28.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (33.74%) Kubernetes
2 47 (28.83%) Grafana
3 34 (20.86%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.13%) Kibana
5 7 (4.29%) Ansible
6 5 (3.07%) Terraform
7 3 (1.84%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.61%) Consul
Vendors
1 28 (17.18%) Dynatrace
2 23 (14.11%) Splunk
3 21 (12.88%) AppDynamics
4 14 (8.59%) New Relic
5 10 (6.13%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.52%) Google
7 7 (4.29%) Oracle
8 4 (2.45%) IBM
8 4 (2.45%) Informatica
9 3 (1.84%) HP
9 3 (1.84%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.84%) OpenText
9 3 (1.84%) SAP
10 2 (1.23%) Charles River
10 2 (1.23%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.23%) Solace
11 1 (0.61%) Confluent
11 1 (0.61%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.61%) Parasoft