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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 409 471
Rank change year-on-year -60 +62 +40
Contract jobs citing JMeter 143 109 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.48% 2.69% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 59 98
10th Percentile £317 £327 £354
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.56% -13.54%
75th Percentile £501 £526 £538
90th Percentile £650 £710 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.67%

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 5,760 4,054 5,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.58% 13.71% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 2,661 3,613
10th Percentile £342 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 70 209
10th Percentile £34.53 £24.59 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.69 £47.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £73.65
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 -72 111 £425 -10.53% 29
UK excluding London -48 80 £450 - 28
Work from Home -14 47 £425 -2.86% 22
London -49 44 £432 -11.38% 3
Midlands -59 22 £425 +14.86% 10
South East -26 21 £370 -35.09% 4
West Midlands -56 19 £425 +14.86% 9
Wales - 15 £475 - 2
North of England -59 14 £513 +7.89% 5
Yorkshire -57 6 £533 +12.11% 1
East of England -28 5 £450 - 1
North East -10 4 £475 +46.15% 2
North West -34 4 £500 - 2
South West -25 3 £450 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £313 - 1

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 21 (14.69%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.75%) Azure
2 61 (42.66%) AWS
3 55 (38.46%) GitHub
4 38 (26.57%) GCP
5 37 (25.87%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (19.58%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (11.19%) OpenShift
8 10 (6.99%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (6.29%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.20%) BrowserStack
11 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.10%) Google Analytics
13 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.40%) SaaS
14 1 (0.70%) Datadog
14 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.70%) PaaS
14 1 (0.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.20%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.80%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.10%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.40%) MySQL
6 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.70%) Big Data
7 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) HBase
7 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 59 (41.26%) Selenium
2 51 (35.66%) Cucumber
3 48 (33.57%) Jenkins
4 46 (32.17%) Gatling
5 40 (27.97%) GitLab
6 38 (26.57%) JIRA
7 36 (25.17%) Postman
8 33 (23.08%) JUnit
9 27 (18.88%) LoadRunner
10 25 (17.48%) Git
11 20 (13.99%) WebDriver
12 16 (11.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (10.49%) REST Assured
14 10 (6.99%) MSTest
15 7 (4.90%) Visual Studio
16 6 (4.20%) Cypress.io
17 5 (3.50%) Appium
17 5 (3.50%) Newman
17 5 (3.50%) Zephyr
18 4 (2.80%) Locust
General
1 48 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 22 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Finance
5 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (31.47%) Tester
2 31 (21.68%) Senior
3 30 (20.98%) Test Engineer
4 26 (18.18%) Automation Tester
5 22 (15.38%) Lead
6 17 (11.89%) Developer
7 16 (11.19%) Senior Tester
7 16 (11.19%) Test Automation Engineer
8 14 (9.79%) Test Leader
9 13 (9.09%) Java Developer
9 13 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
10 12 (8.39%) Performance Tester
10 12 (8.39%) Senior Automation Tester
11 10 (6.99%) Performance Test Engineer
12 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (5.59%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (4.90%) Java Engineer
15 6 (4.20%) Automation Test Lead
15 6 (4.20%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.08%) Spring
2 25 (17.48%) Kafka
3 23 (16.08%) Playwright
4 22 (15.38%) REST
5 13 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 13 (9.09%) WireMock
6 11 (7.69%) Web Services
7 10 (6.99%) Gherkin
8 9 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (5.59%) .NET
9 8 (5.59%) RESTful
10 7 (4.90%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.50%) gRPC
11 5 (3.50%) JMS
11 5 (3.50%) JSON
11 5 (3.50%) Middleware
11 5 (3.50%) OpenID
11 5 (3.50%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.50%) WebSockets
12 4 (2.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.99%) Distributed Architecture
4 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.80%) NHS
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.59%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Android
2 4 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.43%) CI/CD
2 102 (71.33%) Test Automation
3 87 (60.84%) Performance Testing
4 76 (53.15%) Agile
5 55 (38.46%) Test Strategy
6 49 (34.27%) DevOps
7 40 (27.97%) API Testing
8 39 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (24.48%) Observability
10 34 (23.78%) Validation
11 33 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
12 29 (20.28%) Test Scripting
13 27 (18.88%) BDD
14 25 (17.48%) Load Testing
14 25 (17.48%) Microservices
15 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (13.99%) Containerisation
16 20 (13.99%) TDD
17 19 (13.29%) AI
17 19 (13.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.97%) Java
2 36 (25.17%) Python
3 28 (19.58%) JavaScript
4 25 (17.48%) SQL
5 17 (11.89%) C#
6 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.80%) Cypher
7 4 (2.80%) Ruby
7 4 (2.80%) Scala
7 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.10%) Go
8 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.40%) Bash
9 2 (1.40%) Bicep
9 2 (1.40%) C
9 2 (1.40%) Groovy
9 2 (1.40%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) Korn
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.59%) ISTQB
4 10 (6.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (4.90%) Degree
6 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.70%) ISEB
8 1 (0.70%) OCP
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.97%) QA
2 17 (11.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.20%) NIST
5 3 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.10%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.40%) SLA
6 2 (1.40%) WCAG
7 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (26.57%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (28.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (20.28%) Grafana
3 21 (14.69%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.99%) Ansible
5 14 (9.79%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.59%) Terraform
7 3 (2.10%) HP ALM
7 3 (2.10%) Kibana
8 2 (1.40%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) VMware
3 9 (6.29%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.59%) Google
5 7 (4.90%) AppDynamics
5 7 (4.90%) New Relic
6 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.80%) Oracle
7 4 (2.80%) SAP
7 4 (2.80%) Splunk
8 3 (2.10%) HP
8 3 (2.10%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.40%) Confluent
9 2 (1.40%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.70%) Citrix
10 1 (0.70%) Ingenico
10 1 (0.70%) Workday