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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 417 466
Rank change year-on-year -44 +49 +64
Contract jobs citing JMeter 152 98 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.61% 2.42% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 57 102
10th Percentile £320 £323 £351
25th Percentile £394 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.54%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £798 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £425
% change year-on-year -6.05% +12.71% -12.33%
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 5,825 4,047 5,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.08% 13.92% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 2,715 3,533
10th Percentile £344 £338 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £606 £627
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 72 182
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £49.50 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -77 118 £430 -11.79% 33
UK excluding London -42 88 £450 -6.05% 29
Work from Home -15 52 £425 -2.86% 16
London -73 45 £450 -7.69% 12
Midlands -43 28 £425 -9.86% 6
West Midlands -35 26 £425 -9.86% 5
South East -38 21 £320 -43.86% 10
Wales - 16 £475 - 3
North of England -70 12 £500 +5.26% 5
South West - 7 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -56 5 £533 +12.11% 1
East of England -33 4 £450 - 1
North West -34 4 £500 - 3
North East -10 3 £413 +26.92% 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 (15.79%) 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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (52.63%) Azure
2 64 (42.11%) AWS
3 60 (39.47%) GitHub
4 42 (27.63%) GCP
5 35 (23.03%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.24%) OpenShift
8 9 (5.92%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.95%) BrowserStack
10 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.97%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.97%) SaaS
12 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.32%) Serverless
13 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.97%) 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 65 (42.76%) Selenium
2 50 (32.89%) Gatling
3 45 (29.61%) Jenkins
4 44 (28.95%) Cucumber
5 42 (27.63%) GitLab
6 41 (26.97%) JIRA
7 37 (24.34%) Postman
8 35 (23.03%) LoadRunner
9 31 (20.39%) JUnit
10 28 (18.42%) Git
11 22 (14.47%) WebDriver
12 17 (11.18%) REST Assured
13 16 (10.53%) MSTest
14 11 (7.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (7.24%) Visual Studio
15 8 (5.26%) Appium
15 8 (5.26%) Cypress.io
16 6 (3.95%) Newman
17 4 (2.63%) Browser DevTools
17 4 (2.63%) NeoLoad
General
1 48 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 25 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.24%) Finance
5 8 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.95%) 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 49 (32.24%) Tester
2 40 (26.32%) Senior
3 33 (21.71%) Test Engineer
4 30 (19.74%) Automation Tester
5 22 (14.47%) Lead
6 21 (13.82%) Senior Tester
7 20 (13.16%) Performance Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Senior Automation Tester
8 17 (11.18%) Test Automation Engineer
9 15 (9.87%) Developer
10 14 (9.21%) Test Leader
11 13 (8.55%) Performance Test Engineer
12 12 (7.89%) Performance Tester
12 12 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (6.58%) Java Developer
14 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (5.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
15 6 (3.95%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 6 (3.95%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.05%) Spring
2 25 (16.45%) REST
3 21 (13.82%) Kafka
3 21 (13.82%) Playwright
4 16 (10.53%) Web Services
4 16 (10.53%) WireMock
5 9 (5.92%) Gherkin
5 9 (5.92%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (5.26%) Hibernate
6 8 (5.26%) RESTful
6 8 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.95%) JSON
8 5 (3.29%) .NET
8 5 (3.29%) gRPC
8 5 (3.29%) JMS
8 5 (3.29%) Middleware
8 5 (3.29%) OpenID
8 5 (3.29%) React
8 5 (3.29%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (3.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (7.24%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.63%) NHS
7 3 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) Android
2 4 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (69.08%) CI/CD
1 105 (69.08%) Test Automation
2 92 (60.53%) Performance Testing
3 77 (50.66%) Agile
4 60 (39.47%) Test Strategy
5 54 (35.53%) DevOps
6 40 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (23.68%) API Testing
7 36 (23.68%) Non-Functional Testing
8 35 (23.03%) Observability
8 35 (23.03%) Validation
9 34 (22.37%) Load Testing
10 29 (19.08%) Microservices
11 26 (17.11%) BDD
12 24 (15.79%) Test Scripting
13 22 (14.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 22 (14.47%) TDD
14 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (12.50%) Containerisation
15 19 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.92%) Java
2 40 (26.32%) Python
3 35 (23.03%) SQL
4 33 (21.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.82%) C#
6 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.63%) Cypher
7 4 (2.63%) Ruby
7 4 (2.63%) Scala
7 4 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.97%) Bash
8 3 (1.97%) Go
8 3 (1.97%) 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%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Swift
10 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (30.92%) Security Cleared
2 36 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 24 (15.79%) ISTQB
4 14 (9.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (4.61%) Degree
6 6 (3.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.66%) ISEB
9 1 (0.66%) OCP
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (23.68%) QA
2 15 (9.87%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 12 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.97%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (31.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 32 (21.05%) Grafana
3 24 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.87%) Ansible
5 9 (5.92%) Progress Chef
5 9 (5.92%) Terraform
6 4 (2.63%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.97%) Kibana
8 2 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 15 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.24%) AppDynamics
3 11 (7.24%) New Relic
4 9 (5.92%) VMware
5 8 (5.26%) Google
5 8 (5.26%) Splunk
6 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.63%) HP
7 4 (2.63%) Oracle
7 4 (2.63%) SAP
8 3 (1.97%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.97%) OpenText
8 3 (1.97%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.32%) Confluent
9 2 (1.32%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.66%) Citrix
10 1 (0.66%) IBM
10 1 (0.66%) Ingenico
10 1 (0.66%) Solace