JMeter Job Trends in England

Apache JMeter
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring JMeter skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 569 705
Rank change year-on-year -61 +136 -8
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 60 63 109
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.60% 1.70% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 44 38 75
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,125 £45,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,372 £72,788 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -7.69%

All Development Application Skills
England

JMeter falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,761 3,708 7,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.58% 9.44% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,509 2,534 6,001
10th Percentile £32,700 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in England

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Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMeter.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JMeter

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JMeter in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -48 20 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South East -25 13 £65,000 +68.83% 5
Midlands -21 9 £56,250 +25.00% 8
West Midlands -33 8 £56,250 +60.71% 4
North of England -39 7 £68,076 +23.77% 2
South West -50 7 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £68,076 - 1
Yorkshire -39 2 £60,788 +1.65%
North West -3 1 - - 1
East of England -12 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
East Midlands -23 1 - - 4
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Drupal
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.00%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Azure
3 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (11.67%) Serverless
6 6 (10.00%) BrowserStack
6 6 (10.00%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) Datadog
7 5 (8.33%) SaaS
8 4 (6.67%) dbt
8 4 (6.67%) GCP
8 4 (6.67%) PaaS
9 3 (5.00%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (5.00%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.67%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.67%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
6 1 (1.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Selenium
2 22 (36.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (36.67%) LoadRunner
3 21 (35.00%) Cypress.io
3 21 (35.00%) Gatling
4 18 (30.00%) REST Assured
5 17 (28.33%) Cucumber
6 16 (26.67%) Postman
7 9 (15.00%) GitLab
7 9 (15.00%) JUnit
8 7 (11.67%) Git
8 7 (11.67%) Mockito
8 7 (11.67%) SonarQube
9 6 (10.00%) JIRA
9 6 (10.00%) Locust
10 4 (6.67%) Appium
10 4 (6.67%) Burp Suite
11 3 (5.00%) SoapUI
11 3 (5.00%) SpecFlow
11 3 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Advertising
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) Test Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) Lead
5 9 (15.00%) Performance Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) Performance Test Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Test Leader
8 5 (8.33%) QA Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Tester
9 4 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
9 4 (6.67%) Head of QA
9 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) SEO Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.67%) Playwright
2 9 (15.00%) Spring
2 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (13.33%) REST
4 7 (11.67%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (11.67%) Apache Camel
4 7 (11.67%) Hibernate
4 7 (11.67%) HTML
4 7 (11.67%) jQuery
4 7 (11.67%) Web Services
4 7 (11.67%) WireMock
5 6 (10.00%) .NET
5 6 (10.00%) JSON
6 5 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 5 (8.33%) XML
7 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.00%) Kafka
8 2 (3.33%) JPA
8 2 (3.33%) Mustache
8 2 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Kali Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Android
3 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) Agile
1 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 37 (61.67%) Test Automation
3 33 (55.00%) Performance Testing
4 24 (40.00%) DevOps
5 22 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (35.00%) Test Strategy
7 20 (33.33%) BDD
8 15 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
9 14 (23.33%) Microservices
9 14 (23.33%) Test Scripting
10 13 (21.67%) Software Testing
11 12 (20.00%) Security Testing
12 11 (18.33%) Scrum
12 11 (18.33%) SDLC
13 10 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
14 9 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
14 9 (15.00%) TDD
14 9 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) Java
2 20 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.67%) SQL
6 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.67%) C#
8 3 (5.00%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) JCL
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 5 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (41.67%) QA
2 15 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.33%) WCAG
4 2 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.67%) GDPR
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Grafana
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.00%) Kibana
4 9 (15.00%) Terraform
5 5 (8.33%) HP Fortify
6 2 (3.33%) Ansible
6 2 (3.33%) logstash
6 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.67%) Argo
7 1 (1.67%) Consul
7 1 (1.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Dynatrace
2 12 (20.00%) Splunk
3 8 (13.33%) AppDynamics
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle
4 4 (6.67%) Veracode
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) New Relic
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) TOWER Software