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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 721 697
Rank change year-on-year +116 -24 -95
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 79 164 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.44% 1.71% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 52 97 195
10th Percentile £44,960 £33,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,750 £50,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £81,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

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 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Top 15 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 30 April 2025. 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 +137 68 £55,000 -15.38% 35
UK excluding London +147 49 £55,000 -8.33% 35
London +98 47 £58,750 -21.67% 11
South East +104 20 £62,500 +16.28% 9
Work from Home +125 16 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North of England +74 12 £55,000 +15.79% 5
North West +36 11 £55,000 +46.67% 1
Wales +40 10 £50,124 -28.39% 8
Midlands +53 4 £45,000 -25.00% 5
West Midlands +50 2 £40,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands +42 2 £45,000 -28.00% 4
South West +111 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +57 1 £59,800 +11.78% 2
East of England +57 1 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.06%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (3.80%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.90%) AWS
2 39 (49.37%) Azure
3 19 (24.05%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (24.05%) Serverless
4 18 (22.78%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (22.78%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (22.78%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (13.92%) GCP
6 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (6.33%) GitHub
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.80%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.80%) Firebase
8 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.53%) SaaS
9 2 (2.53%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) BGP
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
1 2 (2.53%) OSPF
1 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (24.05%) Relational Database
3 18 (22.78%) RDBMS
4 11 (13.92%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.33%) Big Data
6 5 (6.33%) MySQL
6 5 (6.33%) Power BI
7 4 (5.06%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (53.16%) Selenium
2 34 (43.04%) Jenkins
3 32 (40.51%) JUnit
4 28 (35.44%) Postman
5 19 (24.05%) Cypress.io
6 18 (22.78%) Mockito
7 16 (20.25%) Git
7 16 (20.25%) LoadRunner
8 14 (17.72%) JIRA
9 13 (16.46%) REST Assured
10 11 (13.92%) Gatling
11 10 (12.66%) TestNG
12 9 (11.39%) Appium
13 7 (8.86%) Cucumber
14 6 (7.59%) Burp Suite
14 6 (7.59%) Locust
14 6 (7.59%) TestRail
15 5 (6.33%) GitLab
15 5 (6.33%) Robot Framework
15 5 (6.33%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (32.91%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (32.91%) Public Sector
2 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.06%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.72%) Test Engineer
4 13 (16.46%) Analyst
4 13 (16.46%) Lead
5 11 (13.92%) Tester
6 9 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Senior
7 8 (10.13%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (10.13%) Test Analyst
8 7 (8.86%) QA Leader
9 6 (7.59%) QA Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) QA Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Performance Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Performance Test Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Quality Analyst
11 4 (5.06%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.44%) REST
2 27 (34.18%) Web Services
3 23 (29.11%) HTML
4 18 (22.78%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (22.78%) Apache Camel
4 18 (22.78%) Hibernate
4 18 (22.78%) jQuery
4 18 (22.78%) Spring
4 18 (22.78%) Spring Boot
4 18 (22.78%) WireMock
5 10 (12.66%) JSON
5 10 (12.66%) Playwright
6 9 (11.39%) XML
7 6 (7.59%) Kafka
8 5 (6.33%) CSS
8 5 (6.33%) Jest
8 5 (6.33%) pytest
8 5 (6.33%) Swagger
8 5 (6.33%) YAML
9 4 (5.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (82.28%) Agile
2 53 (67.09%) CI/CD
3 49 (62.03%) Test Automation
4 44 (55.70%) Performance Testing
5 31 (39.24%) DevOps
5 31 (39.24%) Scrum
6 30 (37.97%) Microservices
7 28 (35.44%) Kanban
7 28 (35.44%) Security Testing
8 26 (32.91%) BDD
9 24 (30.38%) Software Testing
9 24 (30.38%) Test Strategy
10 23 (29.11%) SDLC
11 22 (27.85%) Manual Testing
12 21 (26.58%) Test Scripting
13 20 (25.32%) TDD
13 20 (25.32%) Workflow
14 19 (24.05%) API Testing
14 19 (24.05%) Code Quality
15 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.76%) JavaScript
2 45 (56.96%) Python
3 41 (51.90%) Java
4 33 (41.77%) SQL
5 18 (22.78%) Shell Script
6 13 (16.46%) C#
7 8 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.86%) Groovy
9 6 (7.59%) Scala
10 2 (2.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) ISTQB
2 26 (32.91%) SC Cleared
2 26 (32.91%) Security Cleared
3 15 (18.99%) Degree
4 12 (15.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.80%) CISSP
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (44.30%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (35.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (22.78%) Kibana
3 5 (6.33%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (6.33%) Terraform
4 4 (5.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.53%) Iperf
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Splunk
2 17 (21.52%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.53%) VMware
6 1 (1.27%) CyberSource
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.27%) Pega
6 1 (1.27%) StreamSets