JMeter Contracts with Work from Home 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 396 409
Rank change year-on-year +121 +13 -43
Contract jobs citing JMeter 66 61 222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.26% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.75% 1.78% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 53 175
10th Percentile £362 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £606 £605 £606
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +12.99%

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 1,761 3,420 8,077
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.93% 14.32% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 2,472 5,814
10th Percentile £360 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% - +8.59%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 95 103
10th Percentile £23.43 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +14.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £70.64 £65.54
90th Percentile £90.00 £87.92 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

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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 19 June 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 8 (12.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
3 6 (9.09%) Firebase
4 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.58%) BrowserStack
4 5 (7.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.03%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.03%) GCP
7 2 (3.03%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Big Data
4 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Selenium
2 17 (25.76%) JIRA
3 14 (21.21%) Cucumber
3 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 14 (21.21%) LoadRunner
3 14 (21.21%) Postman
4 10 (15.15%) Cypress.io
5 8 (12.12%) SoapUI
6 7 (10.61%) GitLab
6 7 (10.61%) TestRail
7 6 (9.09%) Appium
8 4 (6.06%) Git
8 4 (6.06%) JUnit
9 3 (4.55%) Bugzilla
9 3 (4.55%) Maven
9 3 (4.55%) NeoLoad
9 3 (4.55%) SpecFlow
9 3 (4.55%) TestNG
9 3 (4.55%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (25.76%) Finance
2 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Back Office
6 2 (3.03%) Front Office
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (25.76%) Tester
2 15 (22.73%) Test Engineer
3 13 (19.70%) Senior
4 12 (18.18%) Performance Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) Lead
6 9 (13.64%) Performance Test Engineer
7 8 (12.12%) QA Tester
8 7 (10.61%) Test Leader
9 6 (9.09%) Analyst
9 6 (9.09%) Test Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Automation Tester
10 5 (7.58%) Performance Test Leader
10 5 (7.58%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Test Manager
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Performance Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) Consultant
12 3 (4.55%) Developer
12 3 (4.55%) Test Consultant
13 2 (3.03%) Architect
13 2 (3.03%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) Middleware
1 8 (12.12%) REST
2 7 (10.61%) Gherkin
3 6 (9.09%) SOAP
3 6 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
4 5 (7.58%) XML
5 4 (6.06%) Node.js
6 3 (4.55%) .NET
6 3 (4.55%) Playwright
6 3 (4.55%) Spring
7 2 (3.03%) HTML
7 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.03%) Swagger
7 2 (3.03%) Web Services
8 1 (1.52%) Chai
8 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.52%) JAX-RS
8 1 (1.52%) Kafka
8 1 (1.52%) Sass
8 1 (1.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.52%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.52%) Replication
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Test Automation
2 39 (59.09%) Agile
3 30 (45.45%) Performance Testing
4 22 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 20 (30.30%) Test Management
6 19 (28.79%) Test Strategy
7 18 (27.27%) Scrum
8 16 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
10 12 (18.18%) DevOps
10 12 (18.18%) Test Scripting
11 11 (16.67%) Analytics
11 11 (16.67%) BDD
11 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (15.15%) Acceptance Criteria
12 10 (15.15%) Defect Tracking
12 10 (15.15%) User Stories
13 9 (13.64%) Scenario Testing
13 9 (13.64%) Software Testing
13 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) Java
2 17 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 13 (19.70%) Python
4 9 (13.64%) SQL
5 7 (10.61%) C#
6 5 (7.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.03%) C
9 1 (1.52%) Bicep
9 1 (1.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) ISTQB
4 6 (9.09%) ISEB
5 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.03%) Degree
6 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.27%) QA
2 9 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) HP ALM
3 3 (4.55%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Grafana
3 3 (4.55%) Kibana
3 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (1.52%) Argo
4 1 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Oracle
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce