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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 413 460
Rank change year-on-year -71 +47 +73
Contract jobs citing JMeter 102 102 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.88% 2.42% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 48 94
10th Percentile £320 £363 £333
25th Percentile £363 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% -11.59%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £538
90th Percentile £713 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.82% -11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 5,426 4,218 5,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 13.49% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 2,644 3,764
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £510
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.38% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 72 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £45.62
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.85 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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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 20 January 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 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 20 January 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 -72 77 £425 -10.53% 23
UK excluding London -56 43 £416 -10.00% 21
London -34 41 £444 -6.58% 5
Work from Home +3 37 £452 -2.38% 15
South East -13 18 £373 -26.96% 10
North of England -55 10 £525 +23.53% 5
Wales - 9 £675 -
Yorkshire -50 5 £540 +27.06% 4
North East -8 4 £500 +53.85%
East of England -15 4 £450 - 4
Midlands -51 2 £313 -11.97% 1
North West -28 1 - - 1
West Midlands -43 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £313 -

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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 2 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.98%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.02%) Azure
2 39 (38.24%) AWS
2 39 (38.24%) GitHub
3 26 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (24.51%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (19.61%) GCP
6 16 (15.69%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.80%) BlazeMeter
7 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
8 9 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.88%) BrowserStack
10 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.90%) Serverless
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (2.94%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.92%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.92%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) HBase
6 1 (0.98%) Looker
6 1 (0.98%) MySQL
6 1 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (44.12%) Selenium
2 39 (38.24%) Cucumber
3 35 (34.31%) Gatling
4 34 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 30 (29.41%) GitLab
6 25 (24.51%) Postman
7 20 (19.61%) JIRA
7 20 (19.61%) JUnit
8 16 (15.69%) LoadRunner
9 15 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (10.78%) Git
10 11 (10.78%) REST Assured
11 10 (9.80%) MSTest
12 8 (7.84%) Locust
13 7 (6.86%) Visual Studio
14 6 (5.88%) Appium
14 6 (5.88%) Cypress.io
14 6 (5.88%) WebDriver
15 5 (4.90%) NeoLoad
15 5 (4.90%) Newman
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 12 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.96%) Retail
6 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Military
7 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (24.51%) Test Engineer
1 25 (24.51%) Tester
2 22 (21.57%) Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Automation Tester
4 18 (17.65%) Senior
5 17 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
6 15 (14.71%) Java Developer
7 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Performance Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Senior Automation Tester
9 8 (7.84%) Senior Tester
10 7 (6.86%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Performance Test Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Analyst
11 6 (5.88%) Lead
11 6 (5.88%) QA Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.51%) REST
2 23 (22.55%) Kafka
3 21 (20.59%) Playwright
4 18 (17.65%) Spring
5 13 (12.75%) Hibernate
6 11 (10.78%) Web Services
7 10 (9.80%) RESTful
8 9 (8.82%) .NET
8 9 (8.82%) Gherkin
9 6 (5.88%) JSON
9 6 (5.88%) Middleware
9 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.90%) gRPC
10 5 (4.90%) JMS
10 5 (4.90%) OpenID
10 5 (4.90%) pytest
10 5 (4.90%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.90%) WebSockets
11 4 (3.92%) SailPoint
11 4 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.98%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.69%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Android
2 4 (3.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (77.45%) Test Automation
2 76 (74.51%) CI/CD
3 66 (64.71%) Performance Testing
4 52 (50.98%) Agile
5 46 (45.10%) DevOps
6 35 (34.31%) Test Strategy
7 31 (30.39%) API Testing
8 25 (24.51%) Non-Functional Testing
9 24 (23.53%) Test Scripting
10 22 (21.57%) AI
11 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (18.63%) Validation
13 18 (17.65%) Observability
14 17 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (15.69%) Containerisation
15 16 (15.69%) Machine Learning
15 16 (15.69%) Regression Testing
16 15 (14.71%) BDD
17 14 (13.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.16%) Java
2 35 (34.31%) Python
3 29 (28.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (17.65%) SQL
5 17 (16.67%) C#
6 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.92%) Cypher
7 4 (3.92%) Ruby
7 4 (3.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) C
8 1 (0.98%) Korn
8 1 (0.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 10 (9.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (5.88%) Degree
5 6 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (38.24%) QA
2 13 (12.75%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.88%) NIST
5 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.94%) EU AI Act
5 3 (2.94%) GDPR
5 3 (2.94%) WCAG
6 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Docker
2 7 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.61%) Ansible
3 14 (13.73%) Progress Chef
4 9 (8.82%) Grafana
4 9 (8.82%) Terraform
5 7 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) VMware
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.94%) New Relic
4 3 (2.94%) Optimizely
4 3 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (1.96%) HP
5 2 (1.96%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.98%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.98%) Confluent
6 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.98%) SAP
6 1 (0.98%) Splunk
6 1 (0.98%) Workday