The Grinder Jobs

The Grinder - Java Load Testing Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for The Grinder skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited The Grinder over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 705 1080 1097
Rank change year-on-year +375 +17 -345
Permanent jobs citing The Grinder 22 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 0.043% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £44,650 £40,475 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,375 £41,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £54,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £61,375 £68,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £63,550 £69,150 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £47,500

All Development Application Skills
UK

The Grinder 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 7,011 23,340 26,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.02% 18.47% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,368 12,875 16,478
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,091 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% -

The Grinder
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for The Grinder in the UK

The Grinder
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing The Grinder.

Salary trend for The Grinder in the UK

The Grinder
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing The Grinder over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for The Grinder in the UK

The Grinder
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing The Grinder within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 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 +331 22 £53,500 -2.28%
Work from Home - 16 - -
London +283 8 £53,500 +8.08%

The Grinder
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 22 (100.00%) Confluence
1 22 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
2 12 (54.55%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 22 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (54.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 22 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 22 (100.00%) JIRA
1 22 (100.00%) JMeter
1 22 (100.00%) Postman
1 22 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 22 (100.00%) SoapUI
2 20 (90.91%) LoadRunner
3 12 (54.55%) ClearCase
3 12 (54.55%) Git
3 12 (54.55%) GitLab
3 12 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 12 (54.55%) JUnit
3 12 (54.55%) Maven
3 12 (54.55%) Mockito
General
1 16 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
1 14 (63.64%) Automation Test Analyst
1 14 (63.64%) Test Analyst
2 8 (36.36%) Automation Test Lead
2 8 (36.36%) Lead
2 8 (36.36%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 22 (100.00%) Middleware
2 12 (54.55%) Flask
2 12 (54.55%) JSON
2 12 (54.55%) LDAP
2 12 (54.55%) OpenAPI
2 12 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (54.55%) Swagger
2 12 (54.55%) WireMock
2 12 (54.55%) XML
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Agile
1 22 (100.00%) BDD
1 22 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
1 22 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 22 (100.00%) Scrum
1 22 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 22 (100.00%) Test Management
1 22 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 20 (90.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 20 (90.91%) Continuous Integration
2 20 (90.91%) Digital Engineering
2 20 (90.91%) Project Delivery
2 20 (90.91%) SDLC
3 10 (45.45%) Software Testing
4 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) People Management
6 1 (4.55%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) C
1 22 (100.00%) C#
1 22 (100.00%) Java
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Groovy
2 12 (54.55%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) Tcl
3 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 8 (36.36%) VBScript
4 3 (13.64%) VB
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (90.91%) HP
3 12 (54.55%) MKS