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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 472 476
Rank change year-on-year -32 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing JMeter 162 83 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 1.73% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 59 71
10th Percentile £319 £291 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £575
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 6,204 4,807 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.71% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,237 3,406
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
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 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 104 229
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.80
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 24 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 24 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 -51 133 £450 -6.05% 24
UK excluding London -56 80 £450 +2.86% 14
London -65 61 £488 -2.50% 14
Work from Home -31 54 £450 +4.35% 12
Midlands -26 35 £432 -4.11% 2
West Midlands -36 31 £438 -7.21%
North of England -62 13 £461 +8.47% 6
South West -31 11 £450 +38.46% 1
Wales - 9 £475 -
South East -58 8 £305 - 5
Yorkshire -47 7 £423 -0.59% 2
East Midlands -10 4 £428 -4.94% 2
North West -42 3 £526 +61.85% 3
North East - 3 £423 - 1
East of England -22 2 £450 +12.50%
Scotland - 2 - -

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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 31 (19.14%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Apache
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (43.83%) AWS
2 70 (43.21%) Azure
3 48 (29.63%) GitHub
4 35 (21.60%) GCP
5 28 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.70%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.47%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.23%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.23%) SaaS
9 2 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.20%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.23%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.23%) Db2
4 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.23%) Power BI
4 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (37.04%) Gatling
2 59 (36.42%) Selenium
3 47 (29.01%) Jenkins
4 44 (27.16%) LoadRunner
5 43 (26.54%) Postman
6 40 (24.69%) Cucumber
6 40 (24.69%) JIRA
7 34 (20.99%) GitLab
8 31 (19.14%) JUnit
9 27 (16.67%) Git
10 26 (16.05%) WebDriver
11 21 (12.96%) REST Assured
12 14 (8.64%) Cypress.io
13 10 (6.17%) NeoLoad
14 8 (4.94%) TestNG
15 7 (4.32%) Maven
16 6 (3.70%) MSTest
17 5 (3.09%) SoapUI
17 5 (3.09%) Zephyr
18 4 (2.47%) Appium
General
1 51 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.32%) Finance
6 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.09%) Banking
8 4 (2.47%) Military
9 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Law
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
11 1 (0.62%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (37.04%) Tester
2 35 (21.60%) Senior
2 35 (21.60%) Test Engineer
3 28 (17.28%) Performance Engineer
4 22 (13.58%) Lead
4 22 (13.58%) Performance Tester
5 18 (11.11%) Test Leader
6 17 (10.49%) Automation Tester
7 16 (9.88%) Performance Test Engineer
7 16 (9.88%) Senior Tester
8 14 (8.64%) Senior Test Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Senior Automation Tester
9 10 (6.17%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) QA Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Performance Test Leader
11 7 (4.32%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (3.70%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.67%) REST
2 25 (15.43%) Spring
3 24 (14.81%) WireMock
4 19 (11.73%) Playwright
5 11 (6.79%) .NET
6 10 (6.17%) Swagger
7 9 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (5.56%) Web Services
8 7 (4.32%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (4.32%) XML
9 6 (3.70%) JSON
9 6 (3.70%) RESTful
10 5 (3.09%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.47%) Kafka
11 4 (2.47%) OpenID
11 4 (2.47%) pytest
11 4 (2.47%) SOAP
12 3 (1.85%) OAuth
12 3 (1.85%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (9.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.47%) NHS
6 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.85%) 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 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.47%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 99 (61.11%) Test Automation
3 95 (58.64%) Performance Testing
4 66 (40.74%) Agile
5 60 (37.04%) DevOps
5 60 (37.04%) Test Strategy
6 49 (30.25%) Validation
7 44 (27.16%) Load Testing
8 41 (25.31%) Observability
9 39 (24.07%) Microservices
10 35 (21.60%) Non-Functional Testing
11 32 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (18.52%) End-to-End Testing
13 28 (17.28%) BDD
13 28 (17.28%) Performance Engineering
14 27 (16.67%) API Testing
15 26 (16.05%) Scenario Testing
16 25 (15.43%) Containerisation
17 23 (14.20%) TDD
18 21 (12.96%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (25.93%) Java
2 39 (24.07%) Python
3 30 (18.52%) SQL
4 21 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.11%) C#
6 11 (6.79%) Bash
7 8 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.85%) Bicep
10 3 (1.85%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) Cypher
11 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.62%) Swift
12 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (39.51%) Security Cleared
2 52 (32.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.79%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) ISEB
6 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.84%) QA
2 16 (9.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) WCAG
5 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) SEPA
6 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (29.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (32.72%) Kubernetes
2 46 (28.40%) Grafana
3 32 (19.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.17%) Kibana
5 7 (4.32%) Ansible
6 5 (3.09%) Terraform
7 2 (1.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.62%) Consul
8 1 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (19.14%) Dynatrace
2 24 (14.81%) Splunk
3 23 (14.20%) AppDynamics
4 15 (9.26%) New Relic
5 10 (6.17%) Google
6 9 (5.56%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.70%) Oracle
8 4 (2.47%) IBM
8 4 (2.47%) Informatica
9 3 (1.85%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.85%) OpenText
10 2 (1.23%) Charles River
10 2 (1.23%) HP
10 2 (1.23%) SAP
10 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.23%) Solace
11 1 (0.62%) Citrix
11 1 (0.62%) Confluent
11 1 (0.62%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.62%) Parasoft