JMeter Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache JMeter
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JMeter skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 468 637
Rank change year-on-year -70 +169 +14
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 39 51 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.62% 1.87% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 26 30 53
10th Percentile £46,625 £44,400 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,063 £45,372 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,066 £61,800 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £69,625 £72,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +13.64% -13.73% -1.92%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,413 2,726 6,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.68% 9.56% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,819 4,610
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JMeter
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JMeter

JMeter
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands -32 9 £56,250 +25.00% 3
South East -33 9 £65,000 +4.00% 6
West Midlands -27 8 £56,250 +40.63% 1
North of England -65 8 £64,038 +16.43% 2
South West -42 7 £75,000 - 1
Wales -34 5 £64,250 +22.24% 1
North East - 5 £64,038 - 1
Yorkshire -51 2 £60,788 +1.65%
East of England -7 1 £62,500 +13.64% 2
East Midlands -25 1 - - 2
North West -28 1 - - 1
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UK

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Drupal
2 1 (2.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 4 (10.26%) BrowserStack
5 4 (10.26%) Datadog
5 4 (10.26%) dbt
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) PaaS
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub
6 3 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (5.13%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (5.13%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.56%) Redis
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Selenium
2 18 (46.15%) Cypress.io
3 16 (41.03%) Cucumber
4 15 (38.46%) Jenkins
5 14 (35.90%) REST Assured
6 13 (33.33%) LoadRunner
6 13 (33.33%) Postman
7 11 (28.21%) Gatling
8 9 (23.08%) GitLab
9 5 (12.82%) Appium
9 5 (12.82%) JIRA
9 5 (12.82%) JUnit
9 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
10 4 (10.26%) Burp Suite
10 4 (10.26%) Locust
10 4 (10.26%) Mockito
11 3 (7.69%) HP UFT
12 2 (5.13%) Git
12 2 (5.13%) Maven
12 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Test Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) QA Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Tester
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (10.26%) Test Leader
5 3 (7.69%) Automation Tester
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Functional Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Performance Tester
6 2 (5.13%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) Playwright
2 5 (12.82%) .NET
2 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
2 5 (12.82%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) Spring
2 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.82%) Web Services
3 4 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (10.26%) Apache Camel
3 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
3 4 (10.26%) HTML
3 4 (10.26%) jQuery
3 4 (10.26%) JSON
3 4 (10.26%) WireMock
3 4 (10.26%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.56%) Memcached
4 1 (2.56%) Middleware
4 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Kali Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 23 (58.97%) Agile
4 22 (56.41%) Performance Testing
5 16 (41.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (41.03%) DevOps
6 15 (38.46%) Test Strategy
7 14 (35.90%) Non-Functional Testing
8 13 (33.33%) BDD
8 13 (33.33%) Security Testing
9 11 (28.21%) Mentoring
10 10 (25.64%) Software Testing
11 9 (23.08%) OWASP
11 9 (23.08%) SDLC
11 9 (23.08%) Validation
12 8 (20.51%) Performance Metrics
13 7 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
14 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
14 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Java
2 18 (46.15%) Python
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.08%) SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) Groovy
7 2 (5.13%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) JCL
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (58.97%) QA
2 11 (28.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (12.82%) WCAG
4 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Grafana
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.38%) Kibana
4 5 (12.82%) HP Fortify
4 5 (12.82%) Terraform
5 2 (5.13%) logstash
6 1 (2.56%) Ansible
6 1 (2.56%) Consul
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
6 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Dynatrace
1 5 (12.82%) Splunk
2 4 (10.26%) Veracode
3 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) New Relic
5 1 (2.56%) TOWER Software