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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 431 468
Rank change year-on-year -47 +37 +48
Contract jobs citing JMeter 104 98 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.29% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 46 91
10th Percentile £320 £363 £350
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +5.56% -10.45%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £719 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -16.32% +11.76% -12.82%
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 5,456 4,284 5,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.74% 13.28% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,754 2,695 3,732
10th Percentile £338 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 72 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £43.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.15 £90.00
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 7 January 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 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 7 January 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 -60 76 £425 -10.53% 27
London -24 44 £450 -5.26% 5
UK excluding London -63 39 £398 -16.32% 23
Work from Home +12 37 £475 +1.33% 16
South East -10 18 £373 -26.96% 11
Wales - 9 £675 - 1
North of England -50 6 £500 +17.65% 6
North East -9 4 £500 +53.85%
East of England -18 4 £450 - 4
Midlands -50 2 £375 +5.63%
East Midlands - 2 £375 -
North West -27 1 - -
Yorkshire -51 1 - - 6

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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 (2.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.04%) Azure
2 42 (40.38%) GitHub
3 36 (34.62%) AWS
4 29 (27.88%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (17.31%) OpenShift
7 17 (16.35%) GCP
8 11 (10.58%) BlazeMeter
9 10 (9.62%) Power Platform
10 9 (8.65%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (5.77%) BrowserStack
12 5 (4.81%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (4.81%) Serverless
13 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.85%) Vertex AI
14 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.88%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.65%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.88%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.96%) HBase
8 1 (0.96%) Looker
8 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (47.12%) Selenium
2 40 (38.46%) Cucumber
3 36 (34.62%) Jenkins
4 33 (31.73%) Gatling
5 30 (28.85%) GitLab
6 24 (23.08%) Postman
7 23 (22.12%) JUnit
8 17 (16.35%) JIRA
9 15 (14.42%) Git
9 15 (14.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (12.50%) LoadRunner
10 13 (12.50%) REST Assured
11 10 (9.62%) MSTest
12 9 (8.65%) Locust
13 8 (7.69%) Cypress.io
14 7 (6.73%) Visual Studio
15 6 (5.77%) Appium
15 6 (5.77%) WebDriver
16 5 (4.81%) Mockito
16 5 (4.81%) Newman
General
1 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.23%) Finance
3 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Military
6 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (24.04%) Developer
2 24 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 24 (23.08%) Tester
3 20 (19.23%) Automation Tester
4 18 (17.31%) Java Developer
4 18 (17.31%) Senior
5 16 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
8 8 (7.69%) Senior Tester
9 7 (6.73%) Analyst
9 7 (6.73%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Performance Test Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) REST
2 25 (24.04%) Kafka
3 21 (20.19%) Spring
4 18 (17.31%) Playwright
5 14 (13.46%) Hibernate
5 14 (13.46%) RESTful
6 12 (11.54%) Web Services
7 10 (9.62%) .NET
7 10 (9.62%) JSON
8 9 (8.65%) Gherkin
9 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
10 6 (5.77%) HTML
10 6 (5.77%) JMS
10 6 (5.77%) Middleware
10 6 (5.77%) pytest
10 6 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (4.81%) gRPC
11 5 (4.81%) WebSockets
12 4 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Android
2 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (78.85%) Test Automation
2 78 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 69 (66.35%) Performance Testing
4 55 (52.88%) Agile
5 47 (45.19%) DevOps
6 33 (31.73%) Test Strategy
7 31 (29.81%) API Testing
8 26 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 25 (24.04%) AI
10 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (20.19%) Test Scripting
12 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (18.27%) Machine Learning
13 18 (17.31%) Observability
14 17 (16.35%) BDD
14 17 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (15.38%) Regression Testing
15 16 (15.38%) Validation
16 14 (13.46%) Scrum
16 14 (13.46%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.35%) Java
2 34 (32.69%) Python
3 31 (29.81%) JavaScript
4 21 (20.19%) SQL
5 18 (17.31%) C#
6 9 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.85%) Ruby
8 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.96%) Bash
10 1 (0.96%) Bicep
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) Korn
10 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.27%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.35%) ISTQB
4 10 (9.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.73%) Degree
6 6 (5.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.96%) OCP
9 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (38.46%) QA
2 13 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.77%) NIST
5 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.88%) EU AI Act
5 3 (2.88%) GDPR
5 3 (2.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) Docker
2 7 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (27.88%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.23%) Ansible
3 14 (13.46%) Progress Chef
4 11 (10.58%) Terraform
5 9 (8.65%) Grafana
6 7 (6.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) logstash
7 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) VMware
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) New Relic
4 3 (2.88%) Optimizely
4 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.92%) Google
5 2 (1.92%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.96%) Confluent
6 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.96%) HP
6 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.96%) Splunk
6 1 (0.96%) UiPath