JMeter Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 394 408
Rank change year-on-year +110 +14 -45
Contract jobs citing JMeter 65 65 229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.72% 1.85% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 54 179
10th Percentile £360 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £550
90th Percentile £594 £604 £606
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,748 3,519 8,154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.94% 14.52% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 2,543 5,857
10th Percentile £360 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.89% +7.07%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 99 104
10th Percentile £24.37 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +18.90% +14.27%
75th Percentile £81.75 £70.64 £65.32
90th Percentile £90.00 £82.96 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JMeter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JMeter trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JMeter.

JMeter daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JMeter over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

JMeter daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JMeter.

JMeter hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (12.31%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.23%) BlazeMeter
3 6 (9.23%) BrowserStack
3 6 (9.23%) Firebase
4 5 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.15%) GitHub
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.08%) GCP
7 2 (3.08%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (3.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
4 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Power BI
4 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (43.08%) Selenium
2 17 (26.15%) JIRA
3 16 (24.62%) Cucumber
3 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
4 14 (21.54%) Postman
5 12 (18.46%) Cypress.io
6 9 (13.85%) LoadRunner
6 9 (13.85%) SoapUI
7 8 (12.31%) GitLab
8 7 (10.77%) TestRail
9 6 (9.23%) Appium
10 5 (7.69%) Git
10 5 (7.69%) JUnit
11 4 (6.15%) Maven
11 4 (6.15%) TestNG
11 4 (6.15%) WebDriver
12 3 (4.62%) Bugzilla
12 3 (4.62%) NeoLoad
12 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
12 3 (4.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.08%) Front Office
6 2 (3.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Tester
2 15 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Senior
4 10 (15.38%) Performance Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) QA Tester
6 7 (10.77%) Automation Tester
6 7 (10.77%) Lead
6 7 (10.77%) Performance Test Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Test Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Test Manager
9 4 (6.15%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.62%) Consultant
10 3 (4.62%) Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Test Consultant
11 2 (3.08%) Performance Test Consultant
11 2 (3.08%) Performance Tester
11 2 (3.08%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) REST
2 8 (12.31%) Middleware
3 7 (10.77%) Gherkin
3 7 (10.77%) SOAP
4 6 (9.23%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (7.69%) Node.js
5 5 (7.69%) XML
6 4 (6.15%) Playwright
6 4 (6.15%) Spring
7 3 (4.62%) .NET
7 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.08%) Chai
8 2 (3.08%) HTML
8 2 (3.08%) JAXB
8 2 (3.08%) JAX-RS
8 2 (3.08%) Swagger
8 2 (3.08%) Web Services
9 1 (1.54%) CSS
9 1 (1.54%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.54%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.54%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.54%) Replication
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) Test Automation
2 38 (58.46%) Agile
3 26 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
5 20 (30.77%) Test Management
6 18 (27.69%) Scrum
7 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
9 14 (21.54%) Test Strategy
10 13 (20.00%) BDD
10 13 (20.00%) DevOps
10 13 (20.00%) Test Scripting
11 11 (16.92%) Analytics
11 11 (16.92%) User Stories
12 10 (15.38%) Defect Tracking
13 9 (13.85%) Acceptance Criteria
13 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (13.85%) Software Testing
14 8 (12.31%) TDD
14 8 (12.31%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) Java
2 18 (27.69%) JavaScript
3 14 (21.54%) Python
4 10 (15.38%) SQL
5 7 (10.77%) C#
6 5 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.62%) C
7 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) ISTQB
4 6 (9.23%) ISEB
5 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.08%) Degree
6 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) QA
2 10 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (9.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) HP ALM
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 3 (4.62%) Grafana
3 3 (4.62%) Kibana
3 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.62%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) Argo
4 1 (1.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) HP
4 2 (3.08%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace