JMeter Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache JMeter
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing JMeter 16 15 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.58% 1.10% -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 8.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 0
10th Percentile £350 £238 -
25th Percentile £394 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £370 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% - -
75th Percentile £481 £460 -
90th Percentile £488 £483 -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -14.29%

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 491 180 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.73% 13.19% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 114 134
10th Percentile £350 £345 £260
25th Percentile £413 £409 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £487 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +8.22% -16.36%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £536
90th Percentile £600 £650 £584
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £25.33 £56.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.75 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JMeter

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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 4 March 2026.

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 4 March 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
Birmingham -22 13 £438 +13.64% 7
Solihull - 2 £425 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (75.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 10 (62.50%) GCP
4 7 (43.75%) GitHub
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Cucumber
1 13 (81.25%) JIRA
1 13 (81.25%) Selenium
2 12 (75.00%) JUnit
3 11 (68.75%) Git
3 11 (68.75%) WebDriver
4 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (18.75%) GitLab
6 2 (12.50%) Postman
7 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
7 1 (6.25%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
7 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Tester
2 7 (43.75%) Lead
2 7 (43.75%) Test Leader
3 6 (37.50%) Automation Tester
4 4 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Tester
5 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Automation Tester
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Selenium Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Integration Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Spring
1 11 (68.75%) WireMock
2 3 (18.75%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.25%) JDBC
3 1 (6.25%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 14 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 12 (75.00%) BDD
3 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 12 (75.00%) Load Testing
4 11 (68.75%) Agile
4 11 (68.75%) Microservices
4 11 (68.75%) TDD
4 11 (68.75%) Validation
5 10 (62.50%) Observability
6 9 (56.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (43.75%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (37.50%) Performance Testing
9 6 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (25.00%) API Testing
11 4 (25.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Grafana
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 10 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (18.75%) HP ALM
3 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) HP
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Workday