JMeter Contract Job Trends in Wales

Apache JMeter
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 9 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.87% - 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.07% - 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £548 - £139
25th Percentile £638 - £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £154
75th Percentile £738 - £160
90th Percentile £745 - £163
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - -7.54%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 56 47 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 11.62% 10.31% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 55
10th Percentile £256 £162 £173
25th Percentile £375 £375 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -2.46% -10.96%
75th Percentile £509 £542 £618
90th Percentile £713 £550 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £34.73 - -
25th Percentile £41.44 £15.20 -
Median hourly rate £55.25 £17.82 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.04% -31.46% -
75th Percentile £71.44 £21.89 -
90th Percentile £79.58 £24.66 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMeter relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

JMeter job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in Wales over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
South Wales - 9 £675 - 1
JMeter
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MSTest
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Architectural Design
3 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 6 (66.67%) Test Strategy
4 5 (55.56%) AI
4 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
5 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (33.33%) Test Management
7 2 (22.22%) BDD
7 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) ETL
7 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) ISTQB
2 5 (55.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft