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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 495 470
Rank change year-on-year -11 -25 +32
Contract jobs citing JMeter 168 68 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 1.38% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 49 69
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.74% -2.40%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £580
90th Percentile £575 £720 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +1.53% -12.82% -2.50%
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 6,153 4,937 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 15.18% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,959 3,327 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 115 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -30 137 £463 +2.78% 55
London -31 74 £500 - 34
UK excluding London -63 65 £432 +1.53% 35
Work from Home -34 54 £450 -2.17% 29
North of England -67 20 £411 -3.29% 4
Midlands -42 19 £482 +7.00% 3
West Midlands -33 17 £525 +14.13% 3
Yorkshire -31 15 £413 -2.94% 1
South West -31 11 £450 +38.46% 5
South East -61 7 £297 - 14
North West -48 3 £411 +26.46% 1
Wales - 3 £700 -
Scotland - 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands -16 2 £428 -4.94%
East of England -26 2 £409 +2.13% 3
North East -44 2 £423 -19.52% 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 16 (9.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.19%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.69%) AWS
2 59 (35.12%) Azure
3 45 (26.79%) GitHub
4 27 (16.07%) GCP
5 22 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.17%) Serverless
8 6 (3.57%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.38%) SaaS
10 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.79%) Datadog
10 3 (1.79%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.19%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.19%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) INAP
3 1 (0.60%) RTP
3 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.60%) VoIP
3 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.76%) Tableau
3 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.38%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.79%) Power BI
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.19%) Big Data
8 2 (1.19%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.19%) Db2
8 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 65 (38.69%) LoadRunner
2 61 (36.31%) Gatling
3 53 (31.55%) Selenium
4 47 (27.98%) Postman
5 44 (26.19%) Jenkins
6 33 (19.64%) GitLab
7 31 (18.45%) Cucumber
8 29 (17.26%) JIRA
9 20 (11.90%) Git
9 20 (11.90%) NeoLoad
10 19 (11.31%) Cypress.io
11 18 (10.71%) REST Assured
12 17 (10.12%) JUnit
13 14 (8.33%) WebDriver
14 12 (7.14%) SoapUI
15 7 (4.17%) eggPlant
15 7 (4.17%) SonarQube
15 7 (4.17%) TestNG
16 6 (3.57%) Maven
16 6 (3.57%) MSTest
General
1 37 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.33%) Finance
5 13 (7.74%) Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Retail
7 3 (1.79%) Military
8 2 (1.19%) Billing
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (29.17%) Tester
2 48 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 38 (22.62%) Senior
4 34 (20.24%) Performance Engineer
5 23 (13.69%) Lead
6 22 (13.10%) Performance Test Engineer
7 18 (10.71%) Senior Test Engineer
8 17 (10.12%) Performance Tester
9 16 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
10 15 (8.93%) Test Leader
11 14 (8.33%) Automation Tester
12 11 (6.55%) Senior Tester
13 10 (5.95%) QA Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) Performance Test Leader
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) Developer
15 7 (4.17%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.26%) Playwright
2 26 (15.48%) REST
3 18 (10.71%) Kafka
4 16 (9.52%) .NET
5 15 (8.93%) Web Services
6 13 (7.74%) Spring
7 12 (7.14%) WireMock
8 11 (6.55%) SOAP
8 11 (6.55%) XML
9 10 (5.95%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (4.76%) pytest
10 8 (4.76%) Swagger
11 7 (4.17%) Middleware
11 7 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (3.57%) HTML
12 6 (3.57%) JSON
12 6 (3.57%) RESTful
12 6 (3.57%) Terraform
13 5 (2.98%) OpenID
14 4 (2.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 18 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Equities
7 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.60%) Contactless
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Unix
3 2 (1.19%) Android
3 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.19%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) CentOS
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.88%) CI/CD
2 102 (60.71%) Test Automation
3 101 (60.12%) Performance Testing
4 72 (42.86%) DevOps
5 63 (37.50%) Test Strategy
6 60 (35.71%) Agile
7 44 (26.19%) Non-Functional Testing
8 38 (22.62%) Observability
9 37 (22.02%) Validation
10 31 (18.45%) Load Testing
11 30 (17.86%) Microservices
12 29 (17.26%) Performance Engineering
12 29 (17.26%) Scenario Testing
13 28 (16.67%) API Testing
14 27 (16.07%) Containerisation
15 25 (14.88%) End-to-End Testing
15 25 (14.88%) Test Scripting
16 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (11.31%) Mentoring
17 19 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.31%) Python
2 51 (30.36%) Java
3 42 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 40 (23.81%) SQL
5 21 (12.50%) C#
6 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.74%) Bash
8 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.98%) Scala
10 3 (1.79%) Cypher
10 3 (1.79%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.19%) Bicep
11 2 (1.19%) Groovy
11 2 (1.19%) Ruby
11 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (43.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (38.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.38%) ISEB
6 3 (1.79%) Degree
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.00%) QA
2 14 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.79%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.79%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (29.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (29.76%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.40%) Grafana
3 22 (13.10%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.36%) Ansible
5 8 (4.76%) Kibana
6 5 (2.98%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.60%) Consul
8 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.60%) Istio
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (22.62%) Dynatrace
2 31 (18.45%) Splunk
3 26 (15.48%) AppDynamics
4 24 (14.29%) New Relic
5 16 (9.52%) IBM
6 12 (7.14%) Oracle
7 9 (5.36%) Google
8 5 (2.98%) Databricks
8 5 (2.98%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.98%) SAP
9 4 (2.38%) Informatica
10 3 (1.79%) Charles River
10 3 (1.79%) Micro Focus
10 3 (1.79%) OpenText
11 2 (1.19%) Solace
12 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.60%) Dialogic
12 1 (0.60%) Foundry
12 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow