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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 451 453
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 +66
Contract jobs citing JMeter 166 92 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.74% 2.07% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 60 89
10th Percentile £350 £292 £363
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £504 £575
90th Percentile £575 £798 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £453
% change year-on-year - -0.55% -13.81%
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 6,064 4,435 5,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 14.63% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,914 2,960 3,530
10th Percentile £350 £332 £355
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £696 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 89 251
10th Percentile £26.00 £20.86 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.59 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -86 135 £450 -5.26% 11
UK excluding London -60 85 £450 - 10
London -65 59 £463 -5.13% 5
Work from Home -36 58 £450 +4.65% 9
Midlands -33 36 £438 -3.85% 2
West Midlands -35 33 £450 -4.56%
North of England -67 17 £500 +17.65% 3
South West -26 11 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire -42 9 £489 +15.06%
Wales - 9 £475 -
South East -56 8 £305 - 3
North West -48 5 £500 +53.85%
East Midlands -12 3 £418 -7.22% 2
North East - 3 £423 - 3
Scotland -4 2 - - 1
East of England -30 2 £450 +12.50%

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 31 (18.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.99%) Azure
2 77 (46.39%) AWS
3 53 (31.93%) GitHub
4 40 (24.10%) GCP
5 30 (18.07%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.22%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.41%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.20%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.82%) HTTP
2 2 (1.20%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.01%) Neo4j
3 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.20%) Db2
6 2 (1.20%) MySQL
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (38.55%) Selenium
2 58 (34.94%) Gatling
3 52 (31.33%) Postman
4 49 (29.52%) Jenkins
5 45 (27.11%) LoadRunner
6 43 (25.90%) Cucumber
6 43 (25.90%) JIRA
7 40 (24.10%) GitLab
8 31 (18.67%) JUnit
9 29 (17.47%) Git
10 26 (15.66%) WebDriver
11 22 (13.25%) REST Assured
12 14 (8.43%) Cypress.io
13 9 (5.42%) NeoLoad
14 8 (4.82%) TestNG
15 7 (4.22%) Maven
16 6 (3.61%) MSTest
17 5 (3.01%) Newman
17 5 (3.01%) SoapUI
18 4 (2.41%) Appium
General
1 48 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Finance
6 6 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.41%) Banking
8 3 (1.81%) Military
8 3 (1.81%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (36.14%) Tester
2 37 (22.29%) Senior
3 35 (21.08%) Test Engineer
4 27 (16.27%) Performance Engineer
5 25 (15.06%) Lead
6 21 (12.65%) Performance Tester
7 18 (10.84%) Automation Tester
7 18 (10.84%) Test Leader
8 16 (9.64%) Senior Tester
9 15 (9.04%) Performance Test Engineer
10 14 (8.43%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (6.63%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) Senior Automation Tester
13 9 (5.42%) QA Engineer
14 8 (4.82%) Automation Test Lead
15 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (4.22%) Performance Test Leader
15 7 (4.22%) Senior Performance Engineer
16 6 (3.61%) Systems Tester
17 5 (3.01%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.07%) REST
2 28 (16.87%) Spring
3 24 (14.46%) WireMock
4 20 (12.05%) Playwright
5 11 (6.63%) .NET
6 10 (6.02%) RESTful
6 10 (6.02%) Swagger
7 9 (5.42%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (4.82%) Web Services
9 7 (4.22%) Kafka
9 7 (4.22%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (4.22%) OpenID
10 6 (3.61%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.61%) JSON
10 6 (3.61%) React
10 6 (3.61%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.61%) XML
11 5 (3.01%) LDAP
12 4 (2.41%) ADO
12 4 (2.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.64%) Distributed Architecture
3 13 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.41%) NHS
8 3 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.20%) Equities
9 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (68.67%) CI/CD
2 104 (62.65%) Test Automation
3 92 (55.42%) Performance Testing
4 72 (43.37%) Agile
5 61 (36.75%) Test Strategy
6 60 (36.14%) DevOps
7 49 (29.52%) Validation
8 43 (25.90%) Load Testing
9 42 (25.30%) Observability
10 40 (24.10%) Microservices
11 36 (21.69%) Non-Functional Testing
12 32 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (18.67%) API Testing
14 30 (18.07%) BDD
14 30 (18.07%) Containerisation
14 30 (18.07%) Scenario Testing
15 28 (16.87%) End-to-End Testing
16 26 (15.66%) Performance Engineering
16 26 (15.66%) TDD
17 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.31%) Java
2 38 (22.89%) Python
3 32 (19.28%) SQL
4 22 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.84%) C#
6 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.42%) Bash
8 6 (3.61%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.01%) Cypher
9 5 (3.01%) Scala
10 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.81%) Bicep
11 3 (1.81%) Go
11 3 (1.81%) Groovy
11 3 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.81%) Ruby
12 2 (1.20%) VB
13 1 (0.60%) C
13 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.08%) QA
2 16 (9.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (28.31%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (33.73%) Kubernetes
2 43 (25.90%) Grafana
3 34 (20.48%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.02%) Kibana
5 7 (4.22%) Ansible
6 5 (3.01%) Terraform
7 4 (2.41%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.20%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
Vendors
1 27 (16.27%) Dynatrace
2 22 (13.25%) Splunk
3 18 (10.84%) AppDynamics
4 13 (7.83%) New Relic
5 11 (6.63%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.42%) Google
7 7 (4.22%) Oracle
8 6 (3.61%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.41%) HP
9 4 (2.41%) IBM
9 4 (2.41%) Informatica
9 4 (2.41%) SAP
10 3 (1.81%) Micro Focus
10 3 (1.81%) OpenText
11 2 (1.20%) Charles River
11 2 (1.20%) PagerDuty
11 2 (1.20%) Solace
12 1 (0.60%) Citrix
12 1 (0.60%) Ingenico
12 1 (0.60%) Workday