JMeter Job Trends in the North of England

Apache JMeter
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring JMeter skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 253 319
Rank change year-on-year -23 +66 +72
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 7 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.055% 0.17% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.17% 1.93% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £49,950 £41,825 £40,650
25th Percentile £50,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,033 - £55,250
90th Percentile £74,066 £60,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +3.85%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 600 674 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 8.58% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 445 382 1,025
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JMeter.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JMeter

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
North East -4 3 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire -27 3 £53,500 - 2
North West +1 1 £70,079 +55.73% 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Datadog
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Locust
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Test Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Lead Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Security Testing
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) FinOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
2 2 (28.57%) Control-M
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle