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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 484 449
Rank change year-on-year -50 -35 +59
Contract jobs citing JMeter 164 77 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 1.51% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 60 65
10th Percentile £312 £313 £363
25th Percentile £371 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -5.26% -0.52%
75th Percentile £533 £555 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £423 £488
% change year-on-year -2.37% -13.33% +2.63%

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -54 135 £450 +5.88% 42
London -39 82 £475 -5.00% 18
Work from Home -48 56 £450 -2.70% 13
UK excluding London -71 51 £413 -2.37% 25
North of England -57 26 £469 +10.29% 4
Yorkshire -27 21 £481 +13.24% 2
South East -60 11 £375 -0.66% 12
Midlands -42 8 £425 -2.86% 1
West Midlands - 6 £425 - 1
North West -48 3 £411 +26.46% 2
Scotland - 3 £500 - 2
East Midlands -12 2 £428 -2.23%
East of England -29 2 £367 +22.33% 3
North East -36 2 £423 -21.40%
South West - 1 - - 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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 7 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.22%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.68%) AWS
2 60 (36.59%) Azure
3 45 (27.44%) GitHub
4 27 (16.46%) GCP
5 22 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.49%) Serverless
8 8 (4.88%) BrowserStack
9 7 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.66%) BlazeMeter
10 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.83%) Azure API Management
13 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.83%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) HTTP
2 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.83%) INAP
2 3 (1.83%) RTP
2 3 (1.83%) tcpdump
2 3 (1.83%) VoIP
2 3 (1.83%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Tableau
2 9 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.66%) Power BI
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.44%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.83%) Big Data
7 3 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.83%) ZAP BI
8 2 (1.22%) Redis
8 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.61%) Db2
9 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (36.59%) Gatling
1 60 (36.59%) LoadRunner
2 47 (28.66%) Jenkins
3 46 (28.05%) Postman
4 41 (25.00%) Selenium
5 36 (21.95%) Cucumber
6 34 (20.73%) JIRA
7 30 (18.29%) GitLab
8 21 (12.80%) Git
9 20 (12.20%) NeoLoad
10 19 (11.59%) REST Assured
11 18 (10.98%) Cypress.io
11 18 (10.98%) JUnit
12 12 (7.32%) SoapUI
13 10 (6.10%) TestNG
13 10 (6.10%) WebDriver
14 9 (5.49%) eggPlant
15 7 (4.27%) Newman
15 7 (4.27%) SonarQube
16 6 (3.66%) Maven
General
1 35 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.37%) Finance
5 13 (7.93%) Banking
6 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.05%) Retail
8 3 (1.83%) Military
8 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.22%) Law
9 2 (1.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 50 (30.49%) Tester
2 47 (28.66%) Test Engineer
3 35 (21.34%) Lead
3 35 (21.34%) Senior
4 20 (12.20%) Performance Tester
5 19 (11.59%) Senior Test Engineer
5 19 (11.59%) Test Leader
6 18 (10.98%) Performance Engineer
7 17 (10.37%) Performance Test Engineer
8 15 (9.15%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) QA Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Automation Tester
11 9 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Performance Test Leader
12 8 (4.88%) Senior Performance Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) QA Tester
13 7 (4.27%) Senior Tester
14 6 (3.66%) Automation Test Lead
14 6 (3.66%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.56%) Playwright
2 22 (13.41%) REST
3 21 (12.80%) Kafka
4 16 (9.76%) .NET
5 12 (7.32%) SOAP
6 11 (6.71%) Middleware
6 11 (6.71%) XML
7 10 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (5.49%) pytest
8 9 (5.49%) RESTful
8 9 (5.49%) Web Services
9 8 (4.88%) Spring
9 8 (4.88%) Swagger
9 8 (4.88%) WireMock
10 7 (4.27%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.66%) Terraform
11 6 (3.66%) WebdriverIO
12 5 (3.05%) JSON
12 5 (3.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.71%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.22%) Equities
7 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.22%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.22%) NHS
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Contactless
8 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.61%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.71%) Linux
2 5 (3.05%) Unix
3 4 (2.44%) Windows
4 3 (1.83%) CentOS
4 3 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.22%) macOS
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (66.46%) CI/CD
1 109 (66.46%) Performance Testing
2 107 (65.24%) Test Automation
3 65 (39.63%) Agile
3 65 (39.63%) DevOps
3 65 (39.63%) Test Strategy
4 47 (28.66%) Non-Functional Testing
5 37 (22.56%) Observability
5 37 (22.56%) Validation
6 36 (21.95%) API Testing
7 34 (20.73%) Containerisation
8 33 (20.12%) Scenario Testing
8 33 (20.12%) Test Scripting
9 28 (17.07%) Microservices
10 26 (15.85%) End-to-End Testing
11 25 (15.24%) Mentoring
12 24 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (14.63%) Software Testing
13 21 (12.80%) AI
14 20 (12.20%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.20%) Python
2 50 (30.49%) Java
3 45 (27.44%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.63%) SQL
5 19 (11.59%) C#
5 19 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.32%) Bash
7 6 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.05%) Scala
9 3 (1.83%) Cypher
9 3 (1.83%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.22%) Bicep
10 2 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 82 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 76 (46.34%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) ISTQB
4 8 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.05%) ISEB
7 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.83%) Degree
7 3 (1.83%) MOS
8 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (31.10%) QA
2 23 (14.02%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.44%) WCAG
5 2 (1.22%) GDPR
5 2 (1.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (23.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 41 (25.00%) Grafana
3 18 (10.98%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.32%) Ansible
5 10 (6.10%) Kibana
6 5 (3.05%) Control-M
6 5 (3.05%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.83%) Packer
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (17.07%) Dynatrace
2 23 (14.02%) Splunk
3 19 (11.59%) IBM
4 18 (10.98%) AppDynamics
5 15 (9.15%) New Relic
6 12 (7.32%) Oracle
7 10 (6.10%) Databricks
8 9 (5.49%) Google
9 6 (3.66%) Microsoft
10 5 (3.05%) SAP
11 4 (2.44%) Informatica
12 3 (1.83%) Charles River
12 3 (1.83%) Dialogic
12 3 (1.83%) Metaswitch
12 3 (1.83%) OutSystems
13 2 (1.22%) Foundry
14 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
14 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.61%) Solace