JMeter Job Trends

Apache JMeter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JMeter skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 582 705
Rank change year-on-year -43 +123 -43
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 71 63 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.72% 1.34% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54 39 93
10th Percentile £43,172 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £74,066 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,076 £49,104 £60,000
% change year-on-year +38.64% -18.16% +8.11%

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 4,125 4,714 8,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 10.75% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 3,089 6,691
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

JMeter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JMeter job vacancy trend in the UK

JMeter
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMeter.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JMeter

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

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 15 March 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
England -19 63 £61,250 +2.08% 25
UK excluding London -20 37 £68,076 +38.64% 30
London +4 32 £52,500 -22.22% 7
Work from Home +66 31 £65,000 +18.18% 21
South East -6 13 £80,000 +28.00% 7
North of England -43 10 £60,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +9 5 £70,079 +55.73% 5
Midlands -14 5 £70,079 +55.73% 6
North East - 5 £60,000 - 1
South West -20 4 £75,000 - 3
Yorkshire -40 4 £53,500 - 1
Wales -12 3 £70,079 +39.81% 6
North West -11 1 £70,079 +55.73% 2
Scotland -16 1 £70,079 +33.48% 3
Northern Ireland -31 1 - - 1

JMeter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (4.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SAP CX
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) Azure
3 12 (16.90%) Datadog
4 11 (15.49%) dbt
4 11 (15.49%) PaaS
4 11 (15.49%) SaaS
5 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.86%) BrowserStack
5 7 (9.86%) GitHub
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.45%) Serverless
7 5 (7.04%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.23%) GCP
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.23%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.86%) RDBMS
2 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.23%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) Tableau
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.41%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 28 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (35.21%) Cucumber
2 25 (35.21%) Selenium
3 19 (26.76%) LoadRunner
4 16 (22.54%) Gatling
5 15 (21.13%) Postman
6 14 (19.72%) REST Assured
7 13 (18.31%) Cypress.io
7 13 (18.31%) Locust
8 11 (15.49%) JUnit
9 10 (14.08%) GitLab
9 10 (14.08%) JIRA
10 8 (11.27%) SonarQube
11 6 (8.45%) Appium
11 6 (8.45%) Mockito
11 6 (8.45%) SoapUI
12 5 (7.04%) Git
13 4 (5.63%) Bitbucket
13 4 (5.63%) SpecFlow
14 3 (4.23%) Eclipse
General
1 19 (26.76%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Lead
1 23 (32.39%) Test Engineer
2 16 (22.54%) Test Leader
3 15 (21.13%) Senior
4 14 (19.72%) Senior Test Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Lead Test Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Performance Test Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Head of Engineering
8 4 (5.63%) Head of QA
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Tester
9 3 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) Playwright
2 12 (16.90%) REST
3 11 (15.49%) Gherkin
4 10 (14.08%) Spring
5 8 (11.27%) Hibernate
5 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
5 8 (11.27%) Web Services
5 8 (11.27%) XML
6 7 (9.86%) Kafka
7 6 (8.45%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (8.45%) Apache Camel
7 6 (8.45%) HTML
7 6 (8.45%) jQuery
7 6 (8.45%) JSON
7 6 (8.45%) Middleware
7 6 (8.45%) WireMock
8 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.63%) .NET
10 2 (2.82%) Nightwatchjs
10 2 (2.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.41%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) Android
4 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) Test Automation
2 46 (64.79%) CI/CD
3 44 (61.97%) Agile
4 36 (50.70%) Performance Testing
5 31 (43.66%) BDD
6 30 (42.25%) Test Strategy
7 29 (40.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (40.85%) DevOps
8 21 (29.58%) Security Testing
9 20 (28.17%) End-to-End Testing
10 18 (25.35%) Mentoring
11 17 (23.94%) Observability
12 16 (22.54%) Validation
13 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
15 13 (18.31%) Continuous Delivery
15 13 (18.31%) Microservices
16 12 (16.90%) OWASP
16 12 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (16.90%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 40 (56.34%) Java
2 26 (36.62%) Python
3 19 (26.76%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.68%) SQL
6 7 (9.86%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.63%) C#
8 3 (4.23%) Bash
8 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.82%) Scala
10 1 (1.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
3 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (46.48%) QA
2 21 (29.58%) Accessibility
3 11 (15.49%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (39.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 22 (30.99%) Grafana
3 17 (23.94%) Terraform
4 12 (16.90%) Kibana
5 5 (7.04%) Ansible
6 4 (5.63%) HP Fortify
7 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.82%) Control-M
8 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Dynatrace
2 13 (18.31%) Splunk
3 10 (14.08%) Oracle
4 8 (11.27%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
5 3 (4.23%) SAP
6 2 (2.82%) VMware
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) Veracode
7 1 (1.41%) YouTube