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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 437 481
Rank change year-on-year -52 +44 +45
Contract jobs citing JMeter 101 97 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 2.19% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 46 93
10th Percentile £320 £363 £330
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.31%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £723 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -16.32% +11.76% -12.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 5,501 4,427 5,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 13.30% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 2,789 3,820
10th Percentile £335 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.63% -2.32%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £513
% change year-on-year -1.14% -6.34% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 78 203
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.20 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.44 £48.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £75.55 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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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 30 December 2025.

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 13 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 30 December 2025. 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 -60 74 £425 -10.53% 134
London -22 42 £485 +2.11% 17
UK excluding London -59 39 £398 -16.32% 132
Work from Home +9 37 £475 +2.70% 37
South East -1 18 £373 -26.96% 31
Wales - 9 £675 - 4
North of England -55 6 £500 +11.11% 34
North East -3 4 £500 +53.85% 2
East of England -14 4 £450 - 22
Midlands -52 2 £375 +5.63% 16
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 7
North West -26 1 - - 16
Yorkshire -47 1 - - 16

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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 3 (2.97%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.50%) Azure
2 39 (38.61%) GitHub
3 35 (34.65%) AWS
4 30 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (26.73%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (17.82%) OpenShift
7 16 (15.84%) GCP
8 10 (9.90%) Power Platform
9 9 (8.91%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (8.91%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.95%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (4.95%) Serverless
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.96%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.96%) BrowserStack
11 4 (3.96%) Vertex AI
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.97%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.91%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.92%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.98%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.99%) HBase
7 1 (0.99%) Looker
7 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (45.54%) Selenium
2 37 (36.63%) Cucumber
3 35 (34.65%) Jenkins
4 32 (31.68%) Gatling
5 27 (26.73%) GitLab
6 23 (22.77%) JUnit
7 22 (21.78%) Postman
8 16 (15.84%) JIRA
9 15 (14.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (13.86%) Git
11 13 (12.87%) LoadRunner
12 12 (11.88%) REST Assured
13 10 (9.90%) MSTest
14 9 (8.91%) Cypress.io
14 9 (8.91%) Locust
15 7 (6.93%) Visual Studio
16 6 (5.94%) Appium
17 5 (4.95%) Mockito
17 5 (4.95%) WebDriver
18 4 (3.96%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (20.79%) Finance
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.95%) Banking
5 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.98%) Retail
6 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Military
6 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Developer
2 23 (22.77%) Tester
3 22 (21.78%) Test Engineer
4 19 (18.81%) Automation Tester
5 18 (17.82%) Java Developer
5 18 (17.82%) Senior
6 15 (14.85%) Test Automation Engineer
7 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (7.92%) Performance Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Senior Automation Tester
9 8 (7.92%) Senior Tester
10 7 (6.93%) Analyst
10 7 (6.93%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Performance Test Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) Kafka
1 25 (24.75%) REST
2 21 (20.79%) Spring
3 19 (18.81%) Playwright
4 14 (13.86%) Hibernate
5 12 (11.88%) RESTful
5 12 (11.88%) Web Services
6 11 (10.89%) .NET
7 10 (9.90%) JSON
8 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
9 7 (6.93%) Gherkin
10 6 (5.94%) HTML
10 6 (5.94%) JMS
10 6 (5.94%) Middleware
10 6 (5.94%) pytest
10 6 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (4.95%) gRPC
11 5 (4.95%) WebSockets
12 4 (3.96%) scikit-learn
12 4 (3.96%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Android
2 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (78.22%) Test Automation
2 74 (73.27%) CI/CD
3 66 (65.35%) Performance Testing
4 52 (51.49%) Agile
5 47 (46.53%) DevOps
6 33 (32.67%) Test Strategy
7 29 (28.71%) API Testing
8 24 (23.76%) AI
8 24 (23.76%) Non-Functional Testing
9 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (20.79%) Test Scripting
11 18 (17.82%) Machine Learning
11 18 (17.82%) Observability
12 17 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (15.84%) Regression Testing
13 16 (15.84%) Validation
14 15 (14.85%) BDD
15 13 (12.87%) Microservices
15 13 (12.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.58%) Java
2 34 (33.66%) Python
3 30 (29.70%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.80%) SQL
5 18 (17.82%) C#
6 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.98%) PHP
8 2 (1.98%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.99%) Bash
9 1 (0.99%) Bicep
9 1 (0.99%) C
9 1 (0.99%) Korn
9 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.84%) ISTQB
4 10 (9.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Degree
6 5 (4.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) OCP
9 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (38.61%) QA
2 11 (10.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.95%) NIST
5 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.97%) EU AI Act
5 3 (2.97%) GDPR
5 3 (2.97%) WCAG
6 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (26.73%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (27.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.80%) Ansible
3 14 (13.86%) Progress Chef
4 11 (10.89%) Terraform
5 9 (8.91%) Grafana
6 7 (6.93%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) logstash
7 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (13.86%) VMware
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle
4 3 (2.97%) New Relic
4 3 (2.97%) Optimizely
4 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.98%) Google
5 2 (1.98%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.99%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.99%) Confluent
6 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.99%) HP
6 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.99%) Splunk
6 1 (0.99%) UiPath