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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 462 465
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +53
Contract jobs citing JMeter 169 82 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 1.69% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 59 72
10th Percentile £333 £291 £361
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.80%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £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 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
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 £86.15 £84.65 £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 30 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 30 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 -47 138 £450 -5.26% 24
UK excluding London -36 82 £450 +5.88% 14
London -51 65 £500 - 12
Work from Home -32 56 £450 +2.86% 9
Midlands -30 35 £432 -4.11% 2
West Midlands -37 31 £438 +34.62%
North of England -66 14 £500 +17.65% 4
South West -26 11 £450 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -47 9 £513 +20.59% 2
Wales - 9 £475 -
South East -62 8 £305 - 6
East Midlands -10 4 £428 -4.94% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 -
North East - 3 £423 -
East of England -18 2 £450 +12.50%
North West -50 2 £402 +23.69% 2

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 32 (18.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.60%) AWS
2 70 (41.42%) Azure
3 47 (27.81%) GitHub
4 38 (22.49%) GCP
5 26 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.55%) BrowserStack
8 5 (2.96%) Serverless
9 4 (2.37%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.37%) SaaS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.18%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.18%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.18%) Datadog
10 2 (1.18%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.18%) PaaS
10 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.73%) HTTP
2 3 (1.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.78%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.18%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.18%) Db2
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.18%) Power BI
5 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (37.87%) Gatling
2 61 (36.09%) Selenium
3 51 (30.18%) LoadRunner
4 46 (27.22%) Jenkins
5 42 (24.85%) Cucumber
6 41 (24.26%) JIRA
6 41 (24.26%) Postman
7 36 (21.30%) GitLab
8 31 (18.34%) JUnit
9 27 (15.98%) Git
10 26 (15.38%) WebDriver
11 19 (11.24%) REST Assured
12 14 (8.28%) NeoLoad
13 13 (7.69%) Cypress.io
14 8 (4.73%) TestNG
15 7 (4.14%) Maven
16 6 (3.55%) MSTest
17 5 (2.96%) SoapUI
17 5 (2.96%) Zephyr
18 4 (2.37%) Appium
General
1 51 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 24 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.14%) Finance
6 6 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.96%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Retail
8 4 (2.37%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Billing
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (36.69%) Tester
2 36 (21.30%) Senior
3 34 (20.12%) Test Engineer
4 29 (17.16%) Performance Engineer
5 24 (14.20%) Lead
6 23 (13.61%) Performance Tester
7 20 (11.83%) Test Leader
8 19 (11.24%) Automation Tester
9 17 (10.06%) Performance Test Engineer
10 16 (9.47%) Senior Tester
11 13 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Performance Test Leader
12 10 (5.92%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (5.92%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) QA Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Developer
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 6 (3.55%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.55%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.79%) REST
1 25 (14.79%) Spring
2 24 (14.20%) WireMock
3 20 (11.83%) Playwright
4 10 (5.92%) .NET
4 10 (5.92%) Swagger
5 9 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (5.33%) Web Services
6 7 (4.14%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (4.14%) XML
7 6 (3.55%) JSON
7 6 (3.55%) RESTful
8 5 (2.96%) Gherkin
9 4 (2.37%) Kafka
9 4 (2.37%) OpenID
9 4 (2.37%) pytest
9 4 (2.37%) React
9 4 (2.37%) SOAP
10 3 (1.78%) JDBC
10 3 (1.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (4.14%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.96%) NHS
5 4 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.18%) Equities
7 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.46%) CI/CD
2 101 (59.76%) Test Automation
3 97 (57.40%) Performance Testing
4 68 (40.24%) Agile
5 65 (38.46%) DevOps
5 65 (38.46%) Test Strategy
6 49 (28.99%) Validation
7 47 (27.81%) Load Testing
8 43 (25.44%) Observability
9 41 (24.26%) Microservices
10 38 (22.49%) Non-Functional Testing
11 31 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (17.16%) End-to-End Testing
13 28 (16.57%) BDD
13 28 (16.57%) Performance Engineering
14 27 (15.98%) Containerisation
14 27 (15.98%) Scenario Testing
15 26 (15.38%) API Testing
16 23 (13.61%) TDD
17 22 (13.02%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.40%) Java
2 43 (25.44%) Python
3 31 (18.34%) SQL
4 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.65%) C#
6 13 (7.69%) Bash
7 10 (5.92%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.78%) Cypher
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) Scala
11 2 (1.18%) Bicep
11 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.59%) C
12 1 (0.59%) Korn
12 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.59%) Swift
12 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (39.05%) Security Cleared
2 54 (31.95%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) ISTQB
4 5 (2.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) ISEB
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (21.89%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.18%) WCAG
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) SEPA
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (29.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (31.95%) Kubernetes
2 47 (27.81%) Grafana
3 32 (18.93%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.92%) Kibana
5 7 (4.14%) Ansible
6 4 (2.37%) Terraform
7 2 (1.18%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.59%) Consul
8 1 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (20.12%) Dynatrace
2 27 (15.98%) AppDynamics
3 25 (14.79%) Splunk
4 18 (10.65%) New Relic
5 13 (7.69%) Google
6 8 (4.73%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.14%) Oracle
8 4 (2.37%) IBM
8 4 (2.37%) Informatica
9 3 (1.78%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.78%) OpenText
9 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.18%) Charles River
10 2 (1.18%) HP
10 2 (1.18%) SAP
10 2 (1.18%) Solace
11 1 (0.59%) Citrix
11 1 (0.59%) Confluent
11 1 (0.59%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.59%) Parasoft