JMeter Contracts

Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JMeter skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JMeter over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 467 516
Rank change year-on-year +50 +49 -61
Contract jobs citing JMeter 102 133 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.49% 2.57% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 95 140
10th Percentile £313 £361 £406
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -8.87% +2.60%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £619
90th Percentile £798 £603 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.24% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
% 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 April 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 +40 89 £485 +7.48% 35
London +28 60 £488 +2.63% 11
Work from Home +26 35 £438 -2.78% 32
UK excluding London +40 34 £460 +8.24% 35
North of England +19 11 £500 +17.65% 5
Midlands +22 8 £455 -13.33% 5
South East +40 6 - - 9
West Midlands +21 6 £472 -10.19% 1
Yorkshire +6 6 £463 +8.82% 2
North West +11 5 £500 +17.65% 1
East of England - 5 £600 - 4
Scotland +8 3 £463 -26.00%
East Midlands +3 2 £450 -14.29% 4
South West +43 1 £325 -35.00% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.96%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.96%) Shopify
3 1 (0.98%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.35%) Azure
2 29 (28.43%) AWS
3 25 (24.51%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (16.67%) GitHub
5 9 (8.82%) GCP
6 7 (6.86%) BrowserStack
6 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.90%) SaaS
8 4 (3.92%) Datadog
8 4 (3.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (3.92%) Serverless
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.96%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.96%) NuGet
10 2 (1.96%) PaaS
10 2 (1.96%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) SSH
2 2 (1.96%) DSL
2 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) Multicast
3 1 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.92%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.94%) MySQL
3 3 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.96%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
5 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.98%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (42.16%) Selenium
2 36 (35.29%) LoadRunner
3 32 (31.37%) Jenkins
4 26 (25.49%) JIRA
5 20 (19.61%) Postman
6 19 (18.63%) Cypress.io
7 16 (15.69%) Gatling
7 16 (15.69%) REST Assured
8 15 (14.71%) Git
9 13 (12.75%) GitLab
10 10 (9.80%) Cucumber
11 9 (8.82%) NeoLoad
12 7 (6.86%) Bitbucket
13 6 (5.88%) CircleCI
13 6 (5.88%) SpecFlow
14 5 (4.90%) Appium
14 5 (4.90%) JUnit
15 4 (3.92%) Serenity BDD
15 4 (3.92%) TestNG
16 3 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.73%) Banking
5 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.90%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (26.47%) Tester
2 26 (25.49%) Test Engineer
3 19 (18.63%) Lead
4 16 (15.69%) QA Engineer
5 14 (13.73%) Analyst
5 14 (13.73%) Test Analyst
6 12 (11.76%) Automation Tester
7 10 (9.80%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
7 10 (9.80%) QA Analyst
7 10 (9.80%) QA Test Analyst
7 10 (9.80%) Test Leader
8 9 (8.82%) Automation Test Lead
8 9 (8.82%) Developer
8 9 (8.82%) Senior
9 8 (7.84%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (7.84%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) QA Test Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Performance Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Performance Test Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) Playwright
2 10 (9.80%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (8.82%) Kafka
4 6 (5.88%) Gherkin
4 6 (5.88%) REST
4 6 (5.88%) RESTful
4 6 (5.88%) WireMock
5 4 (3.92%) HTML
5 4 (3.92%) JSON
5 4 (3.92%) Play Framework
5 4 (3.92%) Spring
5 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.92%) Web Services
6 3 (2.94%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.94%) PySpark
7 2 (1.96%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.96%) CSS
7 2 (1.96%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.96%) jQuery
7 2 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.94%) FMCG
3 3 (2.94%) Life Science
4 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.96%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.96%) Replication
5 1 (0.98%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.75%) Linux
2 11 (10.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (71.57%) Test Automation
2 64 (62.75%) Performance Testing
3 61 (59.80%) CI/CD
4 51 (50.00%) DevOps
5 43 (42.16%) Agile
6 35 (34.31%) Test Strategy
7 34 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (30.39%) Test Scripting
9 29 (28.43%) Non-Functional Testing
10 28 (27.45%) API Testing
11 23 (22.55%) Software Testing
12 19 (18.63%) Scrum
13 16 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (15.69%) Regression Testing
13 16 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (15.69%) Validation
14 15 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
15 14 (13.73%) Manual Testing
16 13 (12.75%) Integration Testing
17 12 (11.76%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.27%) Java
2 29 (28.43%) JavaScript
2 29 (28.43%) Python
3 18 (17.65%) C#
3 18 (17.65%) SQL
4 12 (11.76%) Bash
4 12 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.84%) VB
6 5 (4.90%) Groovy
6 5 (4.90%) Ruby
7 4 (3.92%) C++
7 4 (3.92%) PHP
7 4 (3.92%) Scala
8 3 (2.94%) Go
9 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.96%) RPG
9 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.98%) Perl
10 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) ISTQB
4 9 (8.82%) Degree
5 7 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.94%) CEH
6 3 (2.94%) CISSP
7 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (48.04%) QA
2 8 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.90%) Software Quality Assurance
4 4 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.94%) GxP
6 2 (1.96%) GDPR
6 2 (1.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.98%) NIST
7 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.82%) Terraform
3 7 (6.86%) Kibana
4 6 (5.88%) Ansible
4 6 (5.88%) Perfmon
5 5 (4.90%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.92%) Puppet
7 3 (2.94%) Grafana
8 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.82%) SAP
3 8 (7.84%) New Relic
4 6 (5.88%) Oracle
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.90%) Splunk
6 4 (3.92%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.96%) Adobe
8 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.96%) Nintex
8 2 (1.96%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.98%) Confluent
9 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.98%) Databricks
9 1 (0.98%) HP
9 1 (0.98%) Ingenico
9 1 (0.98%) Okta
9 1 (0.98%) Virgin Media