JMeter Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache JMeter
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 269 286 390
Rank change year-on-year +17 +104 -2
Contract jobs citing JMeter 35 59 87
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.36% 3.18% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 68
10th Percentile £286 £360 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £508 £576
90th Percentile £494 £577 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £471 £511
% change year-on-year +0.80% -7.78% +2.20%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

JMeter falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JMeter trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JMeter.

JMeter daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JMeter over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

JMeter daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JMeter.

JMeter hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (40.00%) AWS
4 8 (22.86%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) BrowserStack
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) NuGet
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (5.71%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.86%) Datadog
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SSH
1 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Selenium
2 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
3 11 (31.43%) LoadRunner
4 10 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 10 (28.57%) Gatling
5 9 (25.71%) JIRA
6 8 (22.86%) GitLab
7 7 (20.00%) Postman
8 6 (17.14%) Git
8 6 (17.14%) NeoLoad
8 6 (17.14%) REST Assured
9 5 (14.29%) Appium
9 5 (14.29%) SpecFlow
10 4 (11.43%) CircleCI
10 4 (11.43%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (8.57%) Artifactory
11 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
12 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
12 2 (5.71%) TestNG
13 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Back Office
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Test Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Tester
3 7 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 7 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer in Test
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Test Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Test Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Test Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Test Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Performance Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Playwright
2 4 (11.43%) Play Framework
3 3 (8.57%) Kafka
3 3 (8.57%) RESTful
4 2 (5.71%) WireMock
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.86%) FMCG
1 1 (2.86%) Life Science
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
1 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) DevOps
1 25 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 24 (68.57%) Performance Testing
3 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
4 21 (60.00%) Agile
5 19 (54.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (37.14%) Test Scripting
7 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (34.29%) Test Strategy
8 11 (31.43%) Software Testing
9 9 (25.71%) Defect Management
10 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (22.86%) Scrum
11 7 (20.00%) API Testing
11 7 (20.00%) Kanban
12 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
12 6 (17.14%) Microservices
12 6 (17.14%) Non-Functional Testing
13 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Java
2 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (34.29%) Python
4 11 (31.43%) C#
5 7 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (14.29%) Ruby
6 5 (14.29%) SQL
7 4 (11.43%) C++
7 4 (11.43%) PHP
7 4 (11.43%) Scala
8 3 (8.57%) Groovy
9 2 (5.71%) Bash
9 2 (5.71%) Go
9 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) CEH
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (37.14%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.71%) WCAG
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) GxP
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Perfmon
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Kibana
3 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.43%) New Relic
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.86%) Confluent
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Informatica
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) StreamSets