JMeter Job Trends in the South East

Apache JMeter
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JMeter skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 250 374
Rank change year-on-year -32 +124 -16
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 14 20 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.096% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.19% 3.31% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 14
10th Percentile £53,549 £37,200 £41,291
25th Percentile £59,375 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £38,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +75.32% -18.95% -32.14%
75th Percentile £83,125 £39,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £97,500 - £70,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -7.69%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 640 604 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.40% 7.75% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 465 396 1,071
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JMeter.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JMeter

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley +5 8 £62,500 -
Berkshire +3 8 £62,500 -
West Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Surrey -18 1 £60,000 +53.85% 1
Hampshire -32 1 £47,578 +25.21% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (14.29%) Couchbase
4 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) JUnit
2 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (50.00%) Mockito
4 4 (28.57%) Selenium
5 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
5 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
5 3 (21.43%) Git
5 3 (21.43%) Postman
5 3 (21.43%) REST Assured
6 2 (14.29%) Appium
7 1 (7.14%) Gatling
7 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
7 1 (7.14%) Snyk
7 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Advertising
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Head of QA
5 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Spring
1 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
2 7 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 7 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (50.00%) HTML
2 7 (50.00%) jQuery
2 7 (50.00%) WireMock
3 6 (42.86%) JSON
4 5 (35.71%) REST
4 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 5 (35.71%) XML
5 3 (21.43%) Playwright
6 2 (14.29%) .NET
6 2 (14.29%) JPA
6 2 (14.29%) Kafka
6 2 (14.29%) Mustache
6 2 (14.29%) RESTful
6 2 (14.29%) Vert.x
7 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) BDD
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) Microservices
2 7 (50.00%) SDLC
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
2 7 (50.00%) Workflow
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Process Management
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Biometrics
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) API Design
6 2 (14.29%) API Development
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kibana
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Splunk
2 7 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft