JMeter Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache JMeter
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring JMeter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 76 92
Rank change year-on-year -67 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing JMeter 8 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 1.02% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.76% 5.82% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £304 £377 £387
25th Percentile £353 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £551 £500 £438
90th Percentile £564 £520 £450
England median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -11.90%

All Development Application Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 455 189 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.12% 17.55% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 122 148
10th Percentile £350 £363 £386
25th Percentile £407 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £609 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.72%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JMeter.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JMeter

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
South Yorkshire -53 6 £533 +5.45% 1
West Yorkshire -34 2 £310 -27.06%
JMeter
England

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Gatling
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 6 (75.00%) Postman
3 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) LoadRunner
4 4 (50.00%) NeoLoad
4 4 (50.00%) Selenium
5 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (37.50%) JUnit
5 3 (37.50%) TestNG
6 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (12.50%) Git
7 1 (12.50%) Gradle
7 1 (12.50%) Maven
7 1 (12.50%) Newman
7 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Playwright
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) LDAP
2 4 (50.00%) OpenID
2 4 (50.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (12.50%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Validation
4 4 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
4 4 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (50.00%) GitOps
4 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) RBAC
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (50.00%) Volume Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) Cypher
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk