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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 474 439
Rank change year-on-year -32 -35 +68
Contract jobs citing JMeter 161 78 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 1.54% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 58 60
10th Percentile £311 £313 £363
25th Percentile £373 £400 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £575 £600 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -1.76% -12.82% -

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 6,298 5,058 5,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.58% 15.32% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 3,419 3,161
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 174
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.93 £31.80
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.25 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -54 132 £459 +7.88% 54
London -45 79 £488 +5.69% 31
Work from Home -50 52 £450 -5.26% 25
UK excluding London -77 51 £418 -1.76% 27
North of England -57 25 £463 +8.82% 7
Yorkshire -22 20 £475 +11.76% 6
South East -50 10 £336 -12.73% 9
Midlands -39 8 £438 -1.30% 3
West Midlands -43 6 £525 - 3
North West -43 3 £411 +26.46% 1
South West - 3 - - 3
Scotland - 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands -12 2 £428 -3.61%
East of England -25 2 £367 +22.33% 2
North East -38 2 £423 -21.40%

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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 16 (9.94%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.24%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.61%) AWS
2 57 (35.40%) Azure
3 41 (25.47%) GitHub
4 25 (15.53%) GCP
5 21 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.59%) Serverless
8 7 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.35%) BrowserStack
9 6 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.73%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.86%) Datadog
12 3 (1.86%) Route 53
12 3 (1.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) HTTP
2 3 (1.86%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.86%) INAP
2 3 (1.86%) RTP
2 3 (1.86%) tcpdump
2 3 (1.86%) VoIP
2 3 (1.86%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Tableau
2 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.11%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.11%) Power BI
5 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.86%) Big Data
6 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.24%) Redis
7 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.24%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.62%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.62%) Db2
8 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (37.89%) Gatling
2 60 (37.27%) LoadRunner
3 44 (27.33%) Jenkins
3 44 (27.33%) Postman
4 41 (25.47%) Selenium
5 34 (21.12%) Cucumber
6 33 (20.50%) JIRA
7 30 (18.63%) GitLab
8 20 (12.42%) Git
8 20 (12.42%) NeoLoad
9 18 (11.18%) REST Assured
10 16 (9.94%) Cypress.io
10 16 (9.94%) JUnit
11 12 (7.45%) SoapUI
12 10 (6.21%) WebDriver
13 9 (5.59%) eggPlant
14 8 (4.97%) TestNG
15 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
16 6 (3.73%) Locust
16 6 (3.73%) Newman
General
1 34 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.70%) Finance
5 13 (8.07%) Banking
6 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.11%) Retail
8 3 (1.86%) Military
8 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.24%) Billing
9 2 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Police
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 51 (31.68%) Tester
2 44 (27.33%) Test Engineer
3 34 (21.12%) Lead
4 32 (19.88%) Senior
5 22 (13.66%) Performance Engineer
6 21 (13.04%) Performance Tester
7 19 (11.80%) Test Leader
8 18 (11.18%) Performance Test Engineer
9 16 (9.94%) Senior Test Engineer
10 14 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.83%) QA Engineer
12 10 (6.21%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (5.59%) Automation Tester
13 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (5.59%) Performance Test Leader
14 8 (4.97%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 7 (4.35%) QA Tester
15 7 (4.35%) Senior Tester
16 6 (3.73%) Automation Test Lead
16 6 (3.73%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.88%) Playwright
2 22 (13.66%) REST
3 21 (13.04%) Kafka
4 16 (9.94%) .NET
5 12 (7.45%) SOAP
6 11 (6.83%) Middleware
7 10 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (6.21%) XML
8 9 (5.59%) pytest
8 9 (5.59%) Web Services
9 8 (4.97%) RESTful
9 8 (4.97%) Spring
9 8 (4.97%) WireMock
10 7 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (4.35%) Swagger
11 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.73%) Terraform
12 5 (3.11%) HTML
12 5 (3.11%) OpenID
13 4 (2.48%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.18%) Cloud Native
1 18 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.21%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.24%) Equities
6 2 (1.24%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.24%) NHS
7 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.62%) Contactless
7 1 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.62%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.21%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Unix
3 4 (2.48%) Windows
4 3 (1.86%) CentOS
4 3 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.62%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (65.22%) CI/CD
1 105 (65.22%) Performance Testing
2 101 (62.73%) Test Automation
3 64 (39.75%) DevOps
4 61 (37.89%) Test Strategy
5 60 (37.27%) Agile
6 44 (27.33%) Non-Functional Testing
7 35 (21.74%) Observability
8 34 (21.12%) Validation
9 33 (20.50%) API Testing
9 33 (20.50%) Test Scripting
10 32 (19.88%) Containerisation
11 31 (19.25%) Scenario Testing
12 28 (17.39%) Microservices
13 24 (14.91%) End-to-End Testing
14 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
16 21 (13.04%) Performance Engineering
16 21 (13.04%) Software Testing
17 20 (12.42%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.89%) Python
2 48 (29.81%) Java
3 42 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 25 (15.53%) SQL
5 18 (11.18%) C#
6 17 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.45%) Bash
8 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.86%) Cypher
10 3 (1.86%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.24%) Bicep
11 2 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.24%) Ruby
11 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) Groovy
12 1 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 78 (48.45%) Security Cleared
2 73 (45.34%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.83%) ISTQB
4 7 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.11%) ISEB
6 3 (1.86%) Degree
6 3 (1.86%) MOS
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (29.81%) QA
2 19 (11.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.48%) WCAG
6 2 (1.24%) GDPR
6 2 (1.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.62%) GRC
7 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (23.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (27.33%) Kubernetes
2 41 (25.47%) Grafana
3 18 (11.18%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.45%) Ansible
5 10 (6.21%) Kibana
6 5 (3.11%) Control-M
6 5 (3.11%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.86%) Packer
8 1 (0.62%) Consul
8 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (19.25%) Dynatrace
2 25 (15.53%) Splunk
3 20 (12.42%) AppDynamics
4 19 (11.80%) IBM
5 17 (10.56%) New Relic
6 12 (7.45%) Oracle
7 9 (5.59%) Databricks
7 9 (5.59%) Google
8 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.11%) SAP
9 4 (2.48%) Informatica
10 3 (1.86%) Charles River
10 3 (1.86%) Dialogic
10 3 (1.86%) Metaswitch
11 2 (1.24%) Foundry
11 2 (1.24%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.62%) Confluent
12 1 (0.62%) Parasoft
12 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow