Apache JMeter
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JMeter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JMeter over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 736 736 614
Rank change year-on-year 0 -122 -64
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 155 244 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 1.72% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 90 175 338
10th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,125 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,250 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.20% +25.00% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

JMeter 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 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 111 £60,000 -7.69% 26
UK excluding London 0 107 £54,250 -13.20% 26
Work from Home +37 65 £47,500 -26.92% 28
London +29 46 £75,000 +11.11% 9
Scotland -35 29 £65,000 -7.14% 5
South East -8 24 £47,500 -32.14% 5
North of England +43 23 £46,250 -17.41% 5
Yorkshire +78 14 £53,500 -14.40% 2
Midlands - 12 £60,000 - 2
Wales +14 10 £70,000 +32.10% 3
North West +2 9 £37,500 -31.82% 3
East Midlands - 9 £62,500 -
South West -24 7 £57,500 -14.81% 3
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 2
East of England +5 2 - - 1

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 7 (4.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) JBoss
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 61 (39.35%) Azure
2 45 (29.03%) AWS
3 33 (21.29%) BlazeMeter
4 19 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.61%) BrowserStack
6 14 (9.03%) SaaS
7 13 (8.39%) GitHub
8 8 (5.16%) GCP
9 7 (4.52%) Sauce Labs
9 7 (4.52%) Serverless
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.94%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
1 7 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.58%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.58%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.94%) MySQL
6 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Metadata
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (40.00%) Selenium
2 38 (24.52%) Postman
3 36 (23.23%) Jenkins
4 31 (20.00%) JUnit
5 28 (18.06%) Cucumber
6 26 (16.77%) Cypress.io
7 23 (14.84%) JIRA
8 21 (13.55%) LoadRunner
9 18 (11.61%) SoapUI
9 18 (11.61%) SpecFlow
10 16 (10.32%) Maven
11 14 (9.03%) Appium
12 13 (8.39%) REST Assured
13 12 (7.74%) Gatling
13 12 (7.74%) Git
13 12 (7.74%) WebDriver
14 9 (5.81%) Gradle
14 9 (5.81%) Serenity BDD
15 8 (5.16%) Mockito
16 7 (4.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 49 (31.61%) Finance
2 36 (23.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 30 (19.35%) Marketing
5 28 (18.06%) Law
6 18 (11.61%) Public Sector
7 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (6.45%) Retail
9 5 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 4 (2.58%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Electronics
13 1 (0.65%) Legal
13 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Software Engineer
2 29 (18.71%) Lead
3 28 (18.06%) Java Engineer
4 27 (17.42%) Java Software Engineer
5 21 (13.55%) Senior
6 20 (12.90%) QA Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) Full Stack Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) Test Engineer
8 16 (10.32%) Analyst
9 15 (9.68%) Tester
10 13 (8.39%) Developer
11 12 (7.74%) QA Leader
12 11 (7.10%) Test Analyst
13 9 (5.81%) QA Software Engineer
14 8 (5.16%) Performance Tester
15 7 (4.52%) Quality Engineer
15 7 (4.52%) Test Leader
16 6 (3.87%) Automation Tester
16 6 (3.87%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.29%) React
2 19 (12.26%) Spring
2 19 (12.26%) Spring Boot
2 19 (12.26%) Web Services
3 12 (7.74%) REST
4 11 (7.10%) Playwright
5 10 (6.45%) Swagger
6 9 (5.81%) .NET
6 9 (5.81%) Ext JS
6 9 (5.81%) SOAP
6 9 (5.81%) WireMock
7 8 (5.16%) RESTful
8 6 (3.87%) HTML
9 5 (3.23%) jQuery
9 5 (3.23%) Kafka
10 4 (2.58%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.58%) Apache Camel
10 4 (2.58%) Gherkin
10 4 (2.58%) OAuth
10 4 (2.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.42%) Market Risk
2 9 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.87%) Hackathon
3 6 (3.87%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.87%) Social Media
4 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) BBC
7 1 (0.65%) Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Linux
2 5 (3.23%) Unix
3 3 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (81.29%) Test Automation
2 98 (63.23%) Agile
3 65 (41.94%) CI/CD
4 64 (41.29%) Performance Testing
5 53 (34.19%) Software Testing
6 48 (30.97%) BDD
7 43 (27.74%) Microservices
8 40 (25.81%) DevOps
9 39 (25.16%) SDLC
10 38 (24.52%) Software Engineering
10 38 (24.52%) TDD
11 33 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (20.00%) Test Scripting
13 30 (19.35%) SDET
14 28 (18.06%) Operational Stability
15 27 (17.42%) Electronic Trading
15 27 (17.42%) Risk Management
16 23 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (14.19%) Decision-Making
17 22 (14.19%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.55%) Java
2 44 (28.39%) SQL
3 34 (21.94%) C#
4 26 (16.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.55%) Python
6 4 (2.58%) Ruby
6 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.94%) Bash
7 3 (1.94%) C
7 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) ISTQB
2 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.10%) Degree
4 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.58%) GIAC
6 3 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.29%) ISEB
8 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (29.68%) QA
2 16 (10.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.74%) Grafana
3 10 (6.45%) Kibana
4 9 (5.81%) Terraform
5 5 (3.23%) Ansible
6 2 (1.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) Consul
7 1 (0.65%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.65%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 14 (9.03%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.03%) Oracle
2 10 (6.45%) Splunk
3 9 (5.81%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.81%) TOWER Software
4 7 (4.52%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.87%) OutSystems
6 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.29%) Databricks
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow