JMeter Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 387 365
Rank change year-on-year +96 -22 -38
Contract jobs citing JMeter 60 85 271
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.32% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.22% 2.11% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 66 212
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £426 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% +10.29%
75th Percentile £502 £580 £566
90th Percentile £558 £620 £625
UK median daily rate £453 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -11.45% +2.20% +14.29%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

JMeter is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,864 4,032 8,361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.02% 15.40% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 2,883 6,050
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 102
10th Percentile £27.62 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £54.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile - £78.37 £67.77
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +12.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JMeter trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing JMeter over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 7 (11.67%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.67%) GitHub
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.00%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (5.00%) BrowserStack
4 3 (5.00%) Firebase
4 3 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
5 2 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (45.00%) Selenium
2 17 (28.33%) Cucumber
3 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.00%) JIRA
4 10 (16.67%) LoadRunner
4 10 (16.67%) Postman
5 9 (15.00%) Cypress.io
6 8 (13.33%) SoapUI
7 5 (8.33%) Git
7 5 (8.33%) TestRail
8 4 (6.67%) Appium
8 4 (6.67%) GitLab
8 4 (6.67%) JUnit
8 4 (6.67%) SpecFlow
8 4 (6.67%) WebDriver
9 3 (5.00%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (3.33%) FitNesse
10 2 (3.33%) Maven
10 2 (3.33%) TestNG
General
1 10 (16.67%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Tester
3 11 (18.33%) Performance Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Senior
5 7 (11.67%) Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 5 (8.33%) QA Tester
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Test Leader
9 3 (5.00%) Developer
9 3 (5.00%) QA Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Test Manager
10 2 (3.33%) Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Software Tester
10 2 (3.33%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 7 (11.67%) Gherkin
2 7 (11.67%) SOAP
3 5 (8.33%) Node.js
3 5 (8.33%) Playwright
3 5 (8.33%) Spring
3 5 (8.33%) XML
4 4 (6.67%) Middleware
4 4 (6.67%) Web Services
5 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (3.33%) .NET
6 2 (3.33%) Chai
6 2 (3.33%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) Java EE
6 2 (3.33%) JAXB
6 2 (3.33%) JAX-RS
6 2 (3.33%) WireMock
7 1 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.67%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.67%) Replication
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 29 (48.33%) Agile
3 22 (36.67%) Performance Testing
4 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 16 (26.67%) BDD
6 13 (21.67%) Scrum
6 13 (21.67%) Test Scripting
7 12 (20.00%) Test Management
7 12 (20.00%) User Stories
8 11 (18.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 11 (18.33%) Test Strategy
9 10 (16.67%) DevOps
10 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.33%) Analytics
11 8 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (13.33%) Software Testing
11 8 (13.33%) TDD
12 7 (11.67%) SDET
13 6 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Java
2 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.67%) Python
4 7 (11.67%) SQL
5 6 (10.00%) C#
6 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.00%) C
7 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) ISTQB
4 6 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (10.00%) ISEB
5 3 (5.00%) Degree
6 2 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.67%) QA
2 10 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 7 (11.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (6.67%) HP ALM
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Kibana
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) Argo
4 1 (1.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 5 (8.33%) HP
3 4 (6.67%) Splunk
4 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) Omniture
5 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) IBM