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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 476 454
Rank change year-on-year -26 -22 +68
Contract jobs citing JMeter 173 69 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.77% 1.40% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 47 66
10th Percentile £313 £313 £362
25th Percentile £409 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £548
90th Percentile £575 £798 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -12.20%
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 6,242 4,923 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.65% 14.98% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,317 3,278
10th Percentile £354 £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 £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £85.03 £73.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -47 144 £459 -0.33% 26
UK excluding London -49 77 £425 - 19
London -37 71 £500 -4.76% 11
Work from Home -18 57 £450 - 12
Midlands -30 28 £438 -2.67% 4
West Midlands -24 25 £475 +3.26% 3
North of England -68 20 £411 -2.72% 3
Yorkshire -36 15 £413 -2.94% 2
South West -31 11 £450 +38.46% 2
South East -69 8 £305 - 12
Wales - 5 £475 -
East Midlands -18 3 £428 -4.94% 1
North West -46 3 £411 +26.46% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England -26 2 £450 +12.50% 1
North East - 2 £423 - 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 25 (14.45%) Confluence
2 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (42.20%) AWS
2 63 (36.42%) Azure
3 46 (26.59%) GitHub
4 37 (21.39%) GCP
5 26 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.89%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.89%) SaaS
7 5 (2.89%) Serverless
8 4 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.73%) Datadog
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.16%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.16%) Kong
10 2 (1.16%) PaaS
10 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) HTTP
2 3 (1.73%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.62%) Tableau
3 7 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.47%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.31%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.16%) Big Data
8 2 (1.16%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.16%) Db2
8 2 (1.16%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 68 (39.31%) LoadRunner
2 65 (37.57%) Gatling
3 57 (32.95%) Selenium
4 44 (25.43%) Jenkins
5 43 (24.86%) Postman
6 37 (21.39%) Cucumber
7 34 (19.65%) JIRA
8 33 (19.08%) GitLab
9 27 (15.61%) Git
10 25 (14.45%) JUnit
11 22 (12.72%) WebDriver
12 19 (10.98%) NeoLoad
13 17 (9.83%) REST Assured
14 16 (9.25%) Cypress.io
15 11 (6.36%) SoapUI
16 7 (4.05%) eggPlant
16 7 (4.05%) Maven
16 7 (4.05%) SonarQube
16 7 (4.05%) TestNG
17 6 (3.47%) MSTest
General
1 44 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.51%) Finance
5 10 (5.78%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.89%) Retail
9 3 (1.73%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (32.37%) Tester
2 44 (25.43%) Test Engineer
3 40 (23.12%) Senior
4 35 (20.23%) Performance Engineer
5 28 (16.18%) Lead
6 23 (13.29%) Performance Test Engineer
7 21 (12.14%) Performance Tester
8 19 (10.98%) Test Leader
9 17 (9.83%) Senior Test Engineer
10 16 (9.25%) Senior Tester
11 15 (8.67%) Automation Tester
12 13 (7.51%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Performance Test Leader
13 10 (5.78%) QA Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.62%) Senior Performance Engineer
15 7 (4.05%) Automation Test Lead
15 7 (4.05%) Developer
16 6 (3.47%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.45%) REST
2 23 (13.29%) Playwright
3 21 (12.14%) Spring
4 20 (11.56%) WireMock
5 17 (9.83%) Kafka
6 16 (9.25%) .NET
7 15 (8.67%) Web Services
8 12 (6.94%) XML
9 10 (5.78%) SOAP
10 9 (5.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.20%) Swagger
11 7 (4.05%) JSON
11 7 (4.05%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (3.47%) HTML
12 6 (3.47%) Middleware
12 6 (3.47%) pytest
12 6 (3.47%) RESTful
13 5 (2.89%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.89%) OpenID
14 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.87%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.51%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.73%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.16%) Equities
8 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.16%) NHS
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.58%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.20%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 102 (58.96%) Performance Testing
2 102 (58.96%) Test Automation
3 72 (41.62%) Test Strategy
4 68 (39.31%) DevOps
5 64 (36.99%) Agile
6 45 (26.01%) Observability
6 45 (26.01%) Validation
7 41 (23.70%) Load Testing
8 39 (22.54%) Microservices
8 39 (22.54%) Non-Functional Testing
9 32 (18.50%) End-to-End Testing
10 30 (17.34%) Scenario Testing
11 29 (16.76%) API Testing
11 29 (16.76%) Containerisation
11 29 (16.76%) Performance Engineering
12 27 (15.61%) Test Scripting
13 26 (15.03%) BDD
14 25 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (12.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.21%) Python
2 51 (29.48%) Java
3 37 (21.39%) JavaScript
3 37 (21.39%) SQL
4 20 (11.56%) C#
5 13 (7.51%) Bash
6 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.89%) Scala
9 3 (1.73%) Cypher
9 3 (1.73%) Groovy
9 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.73%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.16%) Bicep
10 2 (1.16%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (42.77%) Security Cleared
2 66 (38.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.51%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.31%) ISEB
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.73%) Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.54%) QA
2 13 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.73%) WCAG
6 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (30.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 51 (29.48%) Grafana
3 30 (17.34%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.78%) Kibana
5 7 (4.05%) Ansible
6 5 (2.89%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.89%) Terraform
7 4 (2.31%) Control-M
8 1 (0.58%) Consul
8 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 41 (23.70%) Dynatrace
2 31 (17.92%) Splunk
3 28 (16.18%) AppDynamics
4 24 (13.87%) New Relic
5 15 (8.67%) IBM
6 11 (6.36%) Google
6 11 (6.36%) Oracle
7 7 (4.05%) Microsoft
8 6 (3.47%) SAP
9 5 (2.89%) Databricks
10 4 (2.31%) Informatica
11 3 (1.73%) Charles River
11 3 (1.73%) Micro Focus
11 3 (1.73%) OpenText
12 2 (1.16%) Confluent
12 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.16%) Solace
13 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.58%) Ingenico
13 1 (0.58%) Parasoft