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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 425 428
Rank change year-on-year -69 +3 +98
Contract jobs citing JMeter 151 97 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 2.28% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 61 102
10th Percentile £350 £293 £363
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £548
90th Percentile £575 £798 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +0.33% +2.86% -12.50%
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 5,901 4,260 5,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.63% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,856 3,456
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 74 223
10th Percentile £35.00 £22.10 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -82 121 £450 -5.26% 10
UK excluding London -57 78 £452 +0.33% 12
London -74 53 £461 -5.54% 1
Work from Home -36 51 £459 +4.97% 5
Midlands -28 35 £450 -1.10% 5
West Midlands -33 32 £450 -4.56% 2
North of England -80 14 £500 +17.65% 1
South West -21 11 £450 +38.46%
Wales - 9 £475 -
Yorkshire -61 8 £489 +15.06% 1
North West -44 5 £500 +21.21%
South East -57 5 £313 - 4
East Midlands -23 3 £418 -7.22% 3
Scotland -2 2 - - 2
East of England -34 2 £450 +12.50%
North East - 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 28 (18.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.34%) Azure
2 65 (43.05%) AWS
3 54 (35.76%) GitHub
4 39 (25.83%) GCP
5 33 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.30%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.31%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.99%) Serverless
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.32%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.32%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.64%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.65%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.99%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.32%) MySQL
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.32%) Power BI
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.66%) DB2
6 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (41.06%) Selenium
2 53 (35.10%) Gatling
3 48 (31.79%) Postman
4 47 (31.13%) Jenkins
5 42 (27.81%) JIRA
6 39 (25.83%) Cucumber
6 39 (25.83%) LoadRunner
7 38 (25.17%) GitLab
8 30 (19.87%) JUnit
9 29 (19.21%) Git
10 27 (17.88%) WebDriver
11 22 (14.57%) REST Assured
12 13 (8.61%) Cypress.io
13 8 (5.30%) TestNG
14 6 (3.97%) MSTest
14 6 (3.97%) Newman
15 5 (3.31%) NeoLoad
16 4 (2.65%) Appium
16 4 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
16 4 (2.65%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.53%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Finance
5 6 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.99%) Banking
7 3 (1.99%) Military
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Police
8 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (33.11%) Tester
2 34 (22.52%) Senior
3 32 (21.19%) Test Engineer
4 26 (17.22%) Lead
5 24 (15.89%) Performance Engineer
6 17 (11.26%) Test Leader
7 16 (10.60%) Automation Tester
7 16 (10.60%) Performance Tester
8 15 (9.93%) Senior Tester
9 11 (7.28%) Performance Test Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (5.30%) Automation Test Lead
12 7 (4.64%) QA Engineer
13 6 (3.97%) Developer
13 6 (3.97%) Performance Test Leader
13 6 (3.97%) Systems Tester
14 5 (3.31%) Architect
14 5 (3.31%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.56%) REST
2 24 (15.89%) Spring
3 20 (13.25%) Playwright
3 20 (13.25%) WireMock
4 11 (7.28%) RESTful
4 11 (7.28%) Swagger
5 8 (5.30%) .NET
6 7 (4.64%) Gherkin
6 7 (4.64%) Kafka
6 7 (4.64%) Web Services
7 6 (3.97%) OpenID
7 6 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.97%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.31%) JSON
8 5 (3.31%) React
9 4 (2.65%) ADO
9 4 (2.65%) LDAP
9 4 (2.65%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (2.65%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (9.93%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.65%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.65%) NHS
6 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.99%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (71.52%) CI/CD
2 102 (67.55%) Test Automation
3 89 (58.94%) Performance Testing
4 69 (45.70%) Agile
5 57 (37.75%) Test Strategy
6 56 (37.09%) DevOps
7 46 (30.46%) Validation
8 39 (25.83%) Microservices
9 38 (25.17%) Observability
10 37 (24.50%) Load Testing
11 36 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (21.85%) API Testing
12 33 (21.85%) Non-Functional Testing
13 29 (19.21%) Containerisation
14 27 (17.88%) End-to-End Testing
15 26 (17.22%) BDD
16 25 (16.56%) Scenario Testing
17 24 (15.89%) Performance Engineering
18 23 (15.23%) TDD
19 18 (11.92%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.49%) Java
2 36 (23.84%) Python
3 30 (19.87%) SQL
4 22 (14.57%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.93%) C#
6 13 (8.61%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.30%) Bash
8 6 (3.97%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.31%) Scala
9 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.65%) Cypher
10 4 (2.65%) Ruby
11 3 (1.99%) Bicep
11 3 (1.99%) Go
11 3 (1.99%) Groovy
11 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.32%) VB
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (38.41%) Security Cleared
2 46 (30.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) Degree
7 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.52%) QA
2 17 (11.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (1.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 47 (31.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (35.10%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.50%) Grafana
3 30 (19.87%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.64%) Ansible
5 6 (3.97%) Kibana
6 5 (3.31%) Terraform
7 4 (2.65%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.66%) Consul
Vendors
1 25 (16.56%) Dynatrace
2 18 (11.92%) Splunk
3 15 (9.93%) AppDynamics
4 14 (9.27%) New Relic
5 13 (8.61%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.30%) Google
7 6 (3.97%) Oracle
7 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.65%) HP
8 4 (2.65%) IBM
8 4 (2.65%) SAP
9 3 (1.99%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.99%) OpenText
10 2 (1.32%) Charles River
10 2 (1.32%) Confluent
10 2 (1.32%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.66%) Ingenico
11 1 (0.66%) Parasoft
11 1 (0.66%) Solace
11 1 (0.66%) Workday