Apache JMeter
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 626 421 511
Rank change year-on-year -205 +90 +44
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 115 907 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.73% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.67% 4.06% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 70 288 351
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,750 £38,815
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JMeter is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,903 22,328 26,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 18.01% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 12,623 16,358
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,581 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
Top 14 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 4 December 2023. 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
England -146 111 £60,000 -4.00% 57
Work from Home +110 57 £67,500 +10.66% 42
London +37 53 £75,000 -2.60% 32
UK excluding London -140 50 £53,750 -2.27% 39
South East +70 36 £52,500 -4.55% 12
South West +1 5 £65,000 +4.00% 3
West Midlands +104 4 £48,000 -12.73%
Midlands +60 4 £48,000 -12.73% 3
North of England -5 3 - - 9
East of England +84 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +39 2 - - 3
Scotland +31 2 £63,750 +36.22% 3
North West +28 1 - - 5
Wales 0 1 £45,000 -16.67% 5

JMeter
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 21 (18.26%) Confluence
1 21 (18.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.61%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Drupal
4 1 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.74%) AWS
2 24 (20.87%) Azure
3 21 (18.26%) BlazeMeter
4 18 (15.65%) GitHub
4 18 (15.65%) SaaS
5 15 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.43%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (10.43%) AWS CodeCommit
7 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.87%) GCP
9 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) AMQP
1 12 (10.43%) HTTP
2 8 (6.96%) SSL
2 8 (6.96%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.74%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.87%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.13%) SQL Server
2 20 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 20 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 20 (17.39%) Oracle Database 10g
2 20 (17.39%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.48%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (59.13%) Selenium
2 59 (51.30%) Jenkins
3 57 (49.57%) JIRA
4 46 (40.00%) SoapUI
5 43 (37.39%) Cucumber
6 42 (36.52%) Postman
7 32 (27.83%) REST Assured
8 31 (26.96%) JUnit
9 25 (21.74%) LoadRunner
10 21 (18.26%) Git
11 20 (17.39%) eggPlant
11 20 (17.39%) The Grinder
11 20 (17.39%) WebDriver
12 18 (15.65%) SpecFlow
13 16 (13.91%) GitLab
14 14 (12.17%) Bitbucket
14 14 (12.17%) Bitbucket Server
14 14 (12.17%) Gatling
14 14 (12.17%) Maven
14 14 (12.17%) Serenity BDD
General
1 19 (16.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.22%) Retail
6 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.61%) Electronics
7 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.61%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Aviation
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Military
9 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (20.87%) Lead
2 23 (20.00%) Tester
3 18 (15.65%) Analyst
4 16 (13.91%) Automation Tester
4 16 (13.91%) Test Analyst
5 15 (13.04%) Senior
6 14 (12.17%) Automation Test Analyst
7 13 (11.30%) Test Leader
8 11 (9.57%) Automation Test Lead
8 11 (9.57%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Senior Tester
10 7 (6.09%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) QA Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Software Integration Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Performance Tester
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
13 4 (3.48%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) JSON
2 24 (20.87%) Gherkin
3 23 (20.00%) REST
4 20 (17.39%) Middleware
5 18 (15.65%) RESTful
6 17 (14.78%) .NET
6 17 (14.78%) WireMock
7 16 (13.91%) SOAP
7 16 (13.91%) XML
8 15 (13.04%) Web Services
9 14 (12.17%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (11.30%) .NET Framework
10 13 (11.30%) Swagger
11 12 (10.43%) Flask
11 12 (10.43%) LDAP
11 12 (10.43%) OpenAPI
12 9 (7.83%) Kafka
12 9 (7.83%) Playwright
13 2 (1.74%) Celery
13 2 (1.74%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (6.96%) PKI
1 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.61%) Bitcoin
3 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.87%) FMCG
5 1 (0.87%) Online Games
5 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.91%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Windows
3 12 (10.43%) Unix
4 3 (2.61%) Android
4 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Debian
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (73.91%) Test Automation
2 79 (68.70%) Agile
3 53 (46.09%) DevOps
3 53 (46.09%) Software Testing
4 43 (37.39%) CI/CD
4 43 (37.39%) Scrum
5 40 (34.78%) Test Management
6 37 (32.17%) Test Strategy
7 35 (30.43%) SDET
8 34 (29.57%) Non-Functional Testing
9 33 (28.70%) BDD
9 33 (28.70%) Performance Testing
10 31 (26.96%) Test Scripting
11 26 (22.61%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (20.87%) Defect Management
13 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (20.00%) SDLC
14 22 (19.13%) API Testing
15 20 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
16 19 (16.52%) Digital Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (58.26%) Java
2 42 (36.52%) SQL
3 40 (34.78%) C#
4 39 (33.91%) Python
5 37 (32.17%) JavaScript
6 21 (18.26%) C
7 14 (12.17%) Groovy
8 12 (10.43%) Perl
8 12 (10.43%) Tcl
9 10 (8.70%) Bash
10 7 (6.09%) VBScript
11 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.61%) VB
13 2 (1.74%) PHP
13 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.87%) C++
14 1 (0.87%) Go
14 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.61%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) ISEB
5 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) QA
2 12 (10.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Firmware
3 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (20.87%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.26%) HP Quality Center
3 11 (9.57%) Ansible
3 11 (9.57%) Terraform
4 3 (2.61%) Consul
5 1 (0.87%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (20.00%) Oracle
2 18 (15.65%) HP
3 12 (10.43%) MKS
4 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.61%) New Relic
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Xamarin