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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 476 457
Rank change year-on-year -56 -19 +42
Contract jobs citing JMeter 163 77 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 1.51% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 59 63
10th Percentile £312 £313 £363
25th Percentile £381 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -5.26% -0.52%
75th Percentile £535 £545 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -2.94% -12.82% +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 6,394 5,115 5,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 15.45% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,092 3,470 3,164
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.03% -5.27%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 110 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.38 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.08 £75.25 £73.98
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 11 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 11 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 -48 134 £450 +5.88% 50
London -44 80 £481 -3.75% 24
Work from Home -36 54 £450 -5.26% 18
UK excluding London -69 52 £413 -2.94% 28
North of England -61 25 £463 +8.82% 7
Yorkshire -16 20 £475 +11.76% 6
South East -58 11 £375 -0.66% 11
Midlands -39 9 £432 -2.76% 2
West Midlands - 7 £475 - 2
North West -48 3 £411 +26.46% 1
Scotland - 3 £500 - 2
East Midlands -11 2 £428 -3.61%
East of England -28 2 £367 +22.33% 3
North East -39 2 £423 -21.40%
South West - 2 - - 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 (9.82%) Confluence
2 7 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.33%) AWS
2 58 (35.58%) Azure
3 43 (26.38%) GitHub
4 26 (15.95%) GCP
5 21 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.52%) Serverless
8 7 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.29%) BrowserStack
9 6 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.68%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.07%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.84%) Datadog
12 3 (1.84%) Route 53
12 3 (1.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.45%) HTTP
2 3 (1.84%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.84%) INAP
2 3 (1.84%) RTP
2 3 (1.84%) tcpdump
2 3 (1.84%) VoIP
2 3 (1.84%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) Tableau
2 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.07%) Power BI
5 4 (2.45%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.84%) Big Data
6 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.23%) Redis
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.23%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.61%) Db2
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (37.42%) Gatling
2 60 (36.81%) LoadRunner
3 46 (28.22%) Jenkins
4 45 (27.61%) Postman
5 41 (25.15%) Selenium
6 35 (21.47%) Cucumber
7 33 (20.25%) JIRA
8 29 (17.79%) GitLab
9 21 (12.88%) Git
10 20 (12.27%) NeoLoad
11 18 (11.04%) Cypress.io
12 17 (10.43%) JUnit
12 17 (10.43%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.36%) SoapUI
14 10 (6.13%) WebDriver
15 9 (5.52%) eggPlant
15 9 (5.52%) TestNG
16 7 (4.29%) SonarQube
17 6 (3.68%) Newman
18 5 (3.07%) Locust
General
1 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.20%) Finance
5 13 (7.98%) Banking
6 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.07%) Retail
8 3 (1.84%) Military
8 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 50 (30.67%) Tester
2 48 (29.45%) Test Engineer
3 35 (21.47%) Lead
3 35 (21.47%) Senior
4 20 (12.27%) Performance Engineer
4 20 (12.27%) Performance Tester
5 19 (11.66%) Senior Test Engineer
5 19 (11.66%) Test Leader
6 18 (11.04%) Performance Test Engineer
7 15 (9.20%) Test Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.75%) QA Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Automation Tester
10 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Performance Test Leader
11 8 (4.91%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 7 (4.29%) QA Tester
12 7 (4.29%) Senior Tester
13 6 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.68%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.47%) Playwright
2 21 (12.88%) Kafka
2 21 (12.88%) REST
3 16 (9.82%) .NET
4 12 (7.36%) SOAP
5 11 (6.75%) Middleware
6 10 (6.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (6.13%) XML
7 9 (5.52%) RESTful
7 9 (5.52%) Web Services
8 8 (4.91%) pytest
8 8 (4.91%) Spring
8 8 (4.91%) WireMock
9 7 (4.29%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (4.29%) Swagger
10 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.68%) Terraform
10 6 (3.68%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.07%) HTML
11 5 (3.07%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.04%) Cloud Native
1 18 (11.04%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.13%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.23%) Equities
6 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Contactless
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
3 4 (2.45%) Windows
4 3 (1.84%) CentOS
4 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) macOS
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (66.26%) Performance Testing
2 107 (65.64%) CI/CD
3 104 (63.80%) Test Automation
4 64 (39.26%) DevOps
4 64 (39.26%) Test Strategy
5 63 (38.65%) Agile
6 46 (28.22%) Non-Functional Testing
7 35 (21.47%) API Testing
7 35 (21.47%) Observability
7 35 (21.47%) Validation
8 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
8 33 (20.25%) Test Scripting
9 32 (19.63%) Scenario Testing
10 27 (16.56%) Microservices
11 25 (15.34%) End-to-End Testing
11 25 (15.34%) Mentoring
12 24 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (14.11%) Software Testing
14 21 (12.88%) Load Testing
15 19 (11.66%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.81%) Python
2 49 (30.06%) Java
3 44 (26.99%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.72%) SQL
5 18 (11.04%) C#
5 18 (11.04%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.36%) Bash
7 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.07%) Scala
9 3 (1.84%) Cypher
9 3 (1.84%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.23%) Bicep
10 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.23%) Ruby
10 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (49.69%) Security Cleared
2 76 (46.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) ISTQB
4 8 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.07%) ISEB
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
6 3 (1.84%) MOS
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (30.67%) QA
2 21 (12.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.45%) WCAG
6 2 (1.23%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (23.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (26.99%) Kubernetes
2 41 (25.15%) Grafana
3 18 (11.04%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.36%) Ansible
5 10 (6.13%) Kibana
6 5 (3.07%) Control-M
6 5 (3.07%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.84%) Packer
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Dynatrace
2 24 (14.72%) Splunk
3 19 (11.66%) AppDynamics
3 19 (11.66%) IBM
4 16 (9.82%) New Relic
5 12 (7.36%) Oracle
6 9 (5.52%) Databricks
6 9 (5.52%) Google
7 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.07%) SAP
8 4 (2.45%) Informatica
9 3 (1.84%) Charles River
9 3 (1.84%) Dialogic
9 3 (1.84%) Metaswitch
10 2 (1.23%) Foundry
10 2 (1.23%) OutSystems
11 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.61%) Solace