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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 420 465
Rank change year-on-year -61 +45 +43
Contract jobs citing JMeter 151 103 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.60% 2.53% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 59 94
10th Percentile £320 £327 £357
25th Percentile £400 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.79%
75th Percentile £516 £556 £538
90th Percentile £635 £798 £602
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £425
% change year-on-year -6.05% +12.71% -13.68%
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 5,806 4,071 5,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.69% 13.93% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,735 3,486
10th Percentile £340 £340 £357
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 72 174
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.28 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.20 £41.96
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +3.69% -0.81%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.10 £82.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.61% +1.22%

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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 11 April 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 15 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 11 April 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 -71 117 £430 -11.16% 33
UK excluding London -39 91 £450 -6.05% 29
Work from Home -16 51 £425 -2.86% 16
London -91 41 £445 -8.72% 12
Midlands -41 29 £438 -7.21% 6
West Midlands -41 27 £438 -7.21% 5
South East -39 20 £320 - 10
Wales - 16 £475 - 3
North of England -65 13 £500 +2.56% 5
South West -22 9 £450 +38.46% 1
Yorkshire -52 6 £533 +12.11% 1
North West -29 4 £500 - 3
East of England -31 4 £450 -25.00% 1
North East - 3 £413 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 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 24 (15.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (51.66%) Azure
2 60 (39.74%) AWS
3 58 (38.41%) GitHub
4 39 (25.83%) GCP
5 33 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.96%) BlazeMeter
7 9 (5.96%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (5.96%) OpenShift
7 9 (5.96%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.97%) BrowserStack
9 5 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.99%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.32%) SaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Serverless
12 1 (0.66%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.66%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.22%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.30%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.65%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.99%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.66%) Big Data
7 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.66%) DB2
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) HBase
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (45.03%) Selenium
2 50 (33.11%) Gatling
3 45 (29.80%) Jenkins
4 43 (28.48%) Cucumber
5 42 (27.81%) JIRA
6 40 (26.49%) GitLab
7 39 (25.83%) Postman
8 37 (24.50%) LoadRunner
9 30 (19.87%) JUnit
10 29 (19.21%) Git
11 22 (14.57%) WebDriver
12 19 (12.58%) REST Assured
13 16 (10.60%) MSTest
14 11 (7.28%) Visual Studio
15 9 (5.96%) Cypress.io
15 9 (5.96%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (4.64%) Appium
16 7 (4.64%) Newman
17 4 (2.65%) Gradle
17 4 (2.65%) NeoLoad
General
1 51 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.21%) Public Sector
3 26 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.62%) Finance
5 8 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.32%) Military
7 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Police
8 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (33.11%) Tester
2 36 (23.84%) Senior
3 30 (19.87%) Test Engineer
4 29 (19.21%) Automation Tester
5 22 (14.57%) Lead
6 21 (13.91%) Senior Tester
7 20 (13.25%) Performance Engineer
8 17 (11.26%) Senior Automation Tester
9 14 (9.27%) Developer
9 14 (9.27%) Test Automation Engineer
9 14 (9.27%) Test Leader
10 13 (8.61%) Performance Tester
11 10 (6.62%) Performance Test Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (5.30%) Senior Test Engineer
14 6 (3.97%) Automation Test Lead
14 6 (3.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 6 (3.97%) Performance Test Leader
15 5 (3.31%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.87%) Spring
2 23 (15.23%) REST
3 18 (11.92%) Playwright
4 16 (10.60%) Kafka
4 16 (10.60%) Web Services
4 16 (10.60%) WireMock
5 9 (5.96%) Gherkin
6 8 (5.30%) RESTful
6 8 (5.30%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.97%) Hibernate
7 6 (3.97%) JSON
8 5 (3.31%) OpenID
8 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (3.31%) React
8 5 (3.31%) WebdriverIO
9 4 (2.65%) .NET
9 4 (2.65%) LDAP
9 4 (2.65%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.65%) Swagger
10 3 (1.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.61%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.64%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.65%) NHS
7 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.28%) Linux
2 4 (2.65%) Android
2 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (68.21%) CI/CD
2 101 (66.89%) Test Automation
3 90 (59.60%) Performance Testing
4 77 (50.99%) Agile
5 56 (37.09%) DevOps
6 55 (36.42%) Test Strategy
7 41 (27.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (23.18%) Load Testing
8 35 (23.18%) Non-Functional Testing
9 34 (22.52%) Validation
10 31 (20.53%) API Testing
10 31 (20.53%) Observability
11 30 (19.87%) Microservices
12 26 (17.22%) BDD
13 25 (16.56%) Test Scripting
14 22 (14.57%) End-to-End Testing
15 21 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (13.91%) TDD
16 20 (13.25%) Containerisation
17 19 (12.58%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.80%) Java
2 38 (25.17%) Python
3 36 (23.84%) SQL
4 33 (21.85%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.58%) C#
6 15 (9.93%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.65%) Cypher
7 4 (2.65%) Ruby
7 4 (2.65%) Scala
7 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.99%) Bash
8 3 (1.99%) Go
8 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.32%) Bicep
9 2 (1.32%) C
9 2 (1.32%) Groovy
9 2 (1.32%) VB
10 1 (0.66%) Korn
10 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.23%) ISTQB
4 14 (9.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (4.64%) Degree
6 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
8 1 (0.66%) OCP
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.85%) QA
2 16 (10.60%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 12 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.66%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (31.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (29.80%) Kubernetes
2 32 (21.19%) Grafana
3 24 (15.89%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.61%) Ansible
5 9 (5.96%) Terraform
6 7 (4.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.65%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.99%) Kibana
9 2 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (12.58%) Dynatrace
2 15 (9.93%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.61%) AppDynamics
3 13 (8.61%) New Relic
4 11 (7.28%) Splunk
5 8 (5.30%) Google
6 7 (4.64%) VMware
7 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.65%) HP
8 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 4 (2.65%) SAP
9 3 (1.99%) Braze
9 3 (1.99%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.99%) OpenText
9 3 (1.99%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.32%) Confluent
10 2 (1.32%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.66%) Citrix
11 1 (0.66%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.66%) Solace