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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 283 393
Rank change year-on-year +12 +110 +24
Contract jobs citing JMeter 37 60 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 3.40% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 44 54
10th Percentile £281 £363 £363
25th Percentile £383 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% -0.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £475 £576 £575
90th Percentile £494 £606 £604
UK median daily rate £468 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -4.15% -7.10% +5.00%

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 1,558 1,766 3,420
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.93% 11.96% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 1,268 2,460
10th Percentile £331 £360 £375
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -5.32% -0.83%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £650
90th Percentile £699 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 38 100
10th Percentile £26.38 £20.10 £39.60
25th Percentile £59.56 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.81%
75th Percentile £75.67 £76.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £87.63 £90.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +4.00% +20.19%

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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 22 June 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (37.84%) AWS
4 9 (24.32%) GitHub
5 3 (8.11%) BrowserStack
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.41%) Datadog
6 2 (5.41%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.70%) NuGet
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) SSH
1 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.70%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) MySQL
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Selenium
2 15 (40.54%) Cypress.io
2 15 (40.54%) Jenkins
3 12 (32.43%) LoadRunner
3 12 (32.43%) Postman
4 11 (29.73%) Gatling
4 11 (29.73%) GitLab
5 10 (27.03%) REST Assured
6 9 (24.32%) JIRA
7 7 (18.92%) Appium
7 7 (18.92%) TestNG
8 6 (16.22%) Cucumber
9 5 (13.51%) Git
9 5 (13.51%) NeoLoad
9 5 (13.51%) SpecFlow
10 4 (10.81%) CircleCI
10 4 (10.81%) JUnit
10 4 (10.81%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (8.11%) Maven
12 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Law
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Test Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Tester
3 8 (21.62%) Automation Tester
3 8 (21.62%) Lead
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Developer in Test
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Test Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Tester
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Test Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Consultant
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) Playwright
2 4 (10.81%) Play Framework
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) WireMock
5 1 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) FMCG
1 1 (2.70%) Life Science
1 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.70%) Replication
1 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Test Automation
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) Performance Testing
3 23 (62.16%) Agile
3 23 (62.16%) DevOps
4 21 (56.76%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (37.84%) Test Scripting
6 12 (32.43%) API Testing
6 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (32.43%) Test Strategy
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (27.03%) Software Testing
8 9 (24.32%) Defect Management
9 7 (18.92%) Kanban
9 7 (18.92%) Microservices
9 7 (18.92%) Scrum
10 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
10 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (13.51%) Performance Engineering
11 5 (13.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
2 17 (45.95%) Java
3 13 (35.14%) C#
4 11 (29.73%) Python
5 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (13.51%) SQL
7 4 (10.81%) C++
7 4 (10.81%) PHP
7 4 (10.81%) Ruby
7 4 (10.81%) Scala
8 2 (5.41%) Bash
9 1 (2.70%) Go
9 1 (2.70%) Groovy
9 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) SC Cleared
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CEH
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) QA
2 9 (24.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (18.92%) WCAG
4 1 (2.70%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) GxP
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Perfmon
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Kibana
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Dynatrace
2 4 (10.81%) New Relic
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk