Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JMeter skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JMeter over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 729 481
Rank change year-on-year +33 -248 -11
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 146 158 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.88% 1.43% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 74 122 350
10th Percentile £37,101 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,664 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 7,755 11,022 40,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 13.66% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,065 7,557 16,055
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Salary trend for JMeter in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +19 106 £55,000 - 1
England -4 105 £57,965 -10.82% 5
Work from Home +51 61 £55,000 -15.38% 3
London +38 39 £63,275 -4.13% 4
Scotland - 32 £55,000 -
North of England +21 28 £45,000 -18.18% 1
South East +9 28 £47,500 -13.64%
North West +1 14 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Yorkshire +59 12 £57,965 +5.39%
South West -7 7 £57,500 -14.81%
Wales +31 5 £70,000 +32.10%
Midlands -19 5 £57,965 +20.76%
West Midlands -4 3 £57,965 +20.76%
North East - 2 £57,965 -
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
East of England - 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.05%) IIS
2 2 (1.37%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) JBoss
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.66%) Azure
2 32 (21.92%) AWS
3 29 (19.86%) BlazeMeter
4 13 (8.90%) BrowserStack
4 13 (8.90%) SaaS
5 11 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.85%) Serverless
7 9 (6.16%) GitHub
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.42%) Sauce Labs
11 4 (2.74%) GCP
12 3 (2.05%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.05%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.79%) RDBMS
3 7 (4.79%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.74%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.05%) MySQL
6 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.37%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.68%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (36.30%) Selenium
2 41 (28.08%) Jenkins
3 35 (23.97%) Cypress.io
4 32 (21.92%) JUnit
4 32 (21.92%) Postman
5 24 (16.44%) REST Assured
6 20 (13.70%) JIRA
7 18 (12.33%) Cucumber
8 17 (11.64%) LoadRunner
9 16 (10.96%) Maven
10 15 (10.27%) Gatling
11 14 (9.59%) Git
12 12 (8.22%) GitLab
13 11 (7.53%) SoapUI
13 11 (7.53%) SpecFlow
14 10 (6.85%) Mockito
15 9 (6.16%) Gradle
16 8 (5.48%) Bitbucket
17 7 (4.79%) WebDriver
18 6 (4.11%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (32.19%) Finance
2 38 (26.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 30 (20.55%) Marketing
5 28 (19.18%) Law
6 18 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
8 11 (7.53%) Retail
9 5 (3.42%) Billing
9 5 (3.42%) Games
9 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.74%) Banking
10 4 (2.74%) Welsh Language
11 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.05%) Health Technology
11 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (21.23%) Lead
2 29 (19.86%) Software Engineer
3 28 (19.18%) Java Engineer
3 28 (19.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 26 (17.81%) Test Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Senior
6 19 (13.01%) Tester
7 18 (12.33%) Analyst
7 18 (12.33%) Full Stack Engineer
7 18 (12.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 15 (10.27%) QA Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Senior Test Engineer
10 11 (7.53%) Developer
10 11 (7.53%) Test Analyst
11 10 (6.85%) Automation Tester
11 10 (6.85%) QA Software Engineer
12 8 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (5.48%) Test Leader
13 7 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (4.79%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.23%) React
2 22 (15.07%) Spring
2 22 (15.07%) Spring Boot
3 18 (12.33%) Web Services
4 13 (8.90%) Swagger
5 12 (8.22%) REST
6 11 (7.53%) HTML
7 10 (6.85%) WireMock
8 9 (6.16%) Ext JS
8 9 (6.16%) Playwright
9 8 (5.48%) jQuery
10 7 (4.79%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (4.79%) Apache Camel
10 7 (4.79%) Hibernate
11 6 (4.11%) SOAP
12 5 (3.42%) .NET
12 5 (3.42%) Gherkin
12 5 (3.42%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.49%) Market Risk
2 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.05%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) BBC
6 1 (0.68%) Clustering
6 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.53%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Unix
3 4 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (82.88%) Test Automation
2 110 (75.34%) Agile
3 64 (43.84%) CI/CD
4 52 (35.62%) Performance Testing
5 48 (32.88%) BDD
6 45 (30.82%) SDLC
7 44 (30.14%) Software Testing
8 42 (28.77%) Microservices
9 38 (26.03%) TDD
10 37 (25.34%) DevOps
10 37 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (23.97%) Software Engineering
12 28 (19.18%) Operational Stability
12 28 (19.18%) SDET
12 28 (19.18%) Test Strategy
13 27 (18.49%) Electronic Trading
13 27 (18.49%) Risk Management
13 27 (18.49%) Test Scripting
14 26 (17.81%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (17.81%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (61.64%) Java
2 49 (33.56%) SQL
3 40 (27.40%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.44%) C#
5 19 (13.01%) Python
6 9 (6.16%) Bash
7 7 (4.79%) Groovy
7 7 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.79%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.05%) C
9 2 (1.37%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) Perl
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) ISTQB
2 15 (10.27%) Degree
3 11 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.74%) GIAC
7 2 (1.37%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.40%) QA
2 18 (12.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 15 (10.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.59%) Kibana
3 13 (8.90%) Grafana
4 7 (4.79%) Terraform
5 4 (2.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.90%) Oracle
2 13 (8.90%) Splunk
3 11 (7.53%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.16%) TOWER Software
5 4 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.05%) IBM
6 3 (2.05%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.37%) Databricks
7 2 (1.37%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Confluent
8 1 (0.68%) Informatica
8 1 (0.68%) New Relic
8 1 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) StreamSets