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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 754 734
Rank change year-on-year +110 -20 -131
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 65 158 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.08% 1.66% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 42 91 169
10th Percentile £42,750 £33,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,309 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £69,975 £75,000 £78,382
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +25.00%

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 5,999 9,508 13,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 9.21% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,533 6,588 8,414
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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

JMeter
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Top 13 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 May 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 +103 58 £55,000 -8.33% 254
UK excluding London +121 39 £55,000 - 266
London +107 38 £55,000 -26.67% 25
South East +80 17 £38,500 -18.95% 69
Work from Home +69 15 £55,000 +15.79% 176
North of England +38 10 £55,000 +18.92% 63
North West +8 9 £55,000 +46.67% 27
Wales +44 7 £52,562 -24.91% 12
Midlands +78 4 £45,000 -25.00% 49
East Midlands +40 3 £45,000 -28.00% 21
West Midlands +56 1 £35,000 -41.67% 25
Yorkshire +47 1 £59,800 +11.78% 29
East of England +46 1 £55,000 - 38

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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 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.62%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (55.38%) Azure
2 32 (49.23%) AWS
3 20 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (21.54%) Serverless
5 13 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (15.38%) GCP
7 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
8 7 (10.77%) GitHub
9 5 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.62%) BrowserStack
10 3 (4.62%) Firebase
10 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.08%) Sauce Labs
12 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) BGP
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
1 2 (3.08%) OSPF
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (21.54%) Relational Database
3 13 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 10 (15.38%) NoSQL
5 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.69%) Big Data
6 5 (7.69%) MySQL
6 5 (7.69%) Power BI
7 4 (6.15%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (53.85%) Selenium
2 30 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 25 (38.46%) JUnit
4 24 (36.92%) Postman
5 17 (26.15%) Git
6 16 (24.62%) JIRA
7 15 (23.08%) Cypress.io
8 14 (21.54%) LoadRunner
9 13 (20.00%) Mockito
9 13 (20.00%) REST Assured
10 10 (15.38%) Gatling
11 8 (12.31%) TestNG
12 7 (10.77%) Appium
12 7 (10.77%) Robot Framework
13 6 (9.23%) Locust
13 6 (9.23%) TestRail
14 5 (7.69%) Burp Suite
14 5 (7.69%) GitLab
14 5 (7.69%) SoapUI
15 4 (6.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (32.31%) Public Sector
2 19 (29.23%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.15%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Lead
3 13 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Tester
5 7 (10.77%) Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) QA Leader
6 6 (9.23%) QA Automation Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Test Leader
8 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Quality Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) REST
2 19 (29.23%) Web Services
3 18 (27.69%) HTML
4 13 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (20.00%) Apache Camel
4 13 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 13 (20.00%) jQuery
4 13 (20.00%) Spring
4 13 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 13 (20.00%) WireMock
5 12 (18.46%) Playwright
6 9 (13.85%) JSON
7 8 (12.31%) XML
8 5 (7.69%) CSS
8 5 (7.69%) Jest
8 5 (7.69%) Kafka
8 5 (7.69%) pytest
8 5 (7.69%) Swagger
8 5 (7.69%) YAML
9 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (87.69%) Agile
2 50 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 41 (63.08%) Test Automation
4 37 (56.92%) Performance Testing
5 31 (47.69%) DevOps
6 28 (43.08%) Scrum
7 27 (41.54%) Security Testing
8 25 (38.46%) Kanban
9 24 (36.92%) Microservices
10 22 (33.85%) BDD
10 22 (33.85%) Software Testing
11 19 (29.23%) Test Scripting
11 19 (29.23%) Test Strategy
12 18 (27.69%) API Testing
13 17 (26.15%) Code Quality
13 17 (26.15%) Manual Testing
14 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (23.08%) TDD
15 15 (23.08%) Workflow
16 14 (21.54%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 38 (58.46%) Python
3 29 (44.62%) Java
4 28 (43.08%) SQL
5 13 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 10 (15.38%) C#
7 8 (12.31%) TypeScript
8 6 (9.23%) Groovy
9 5 (7.69%) Scala
10 2 (3.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 22 (33.85%) SC Cleared
2 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (13.85%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.62%) CISSP
7 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (44.62%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) GDPR
4 2 (3.08%) GxP
5 1 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.00%) Kibana
3 5 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (7.69%) Terraform
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
5 2 (3.08%) Iperf
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Splunk
2 13 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle
5 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.54%) CyberSource
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft