JMeter Contracts in the North of England

Apache JMeter
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 180 216
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 -53
Contract jobs citing JMeter 20 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.91% 4.27% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 25
10th Percentile £392 £414 £350
25th Percentile £400 £440 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £450 £623 £606
90th Percentile £480 £625 £615
England median daily rate £463 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.90% +5.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 511 750 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.01% 13.42% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 574 834
10th Percentile £375 £350 £362
25th Percentile £425 £433 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 32
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £38.29
25th Percentile £45.88 £40.40 £43.82
Median hourly rate £53.09 £52.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -19.80% +103.13%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.29 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.82 £63.60 £80.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +23 15 £425 -10.53% 1
North West -1 5 £488 -15.22% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Selenium
2 9 (45.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (25.00%) JIRA
4 4 (20.00%) Gatling
4 4 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (10.00%) NeoLoad
5 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (5.00%) Mercurial
6 1 (5.00%) Postman
6 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Developer in Test
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer in Test
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Test Leader
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
1 4 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Playwright
4 1 (5.00%) SAP TM
4 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
1 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (50.00%) User Stories
3 8 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 7 (35.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) BDD
5 6 (30.00%) TDD
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Defect Tracking
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) SDET
8 3 (15.00%) Test Management
8 3 (15.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Groovy
2 4 (20.00%) Scala
2 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (35.00%) WCAG
2 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) HP
1 1 (5.00%) JDA
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) SAP