JMeter Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache JMeter
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 110 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing JMeter 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.051% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.33% 0.48% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £266 - £394
25th Percentile £388 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +7.69% +12.85%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £547
90th Percentile - - £571
England median daily rate £485 £453 £510
% change year-on-year +7.18% -11.27% +2.00%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham - 5 £483 -
JMeter
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (50.00%) TestNG
2 3 (50.00%) Travis CI
3 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (50.00%) SIEM
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CEH
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes