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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 714 592
Rank change year-on-year -26 -122 -30
Permanent jobs citing JMeter 155 240 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 1.71% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 90 174 345
10th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,125 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,595 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9,512 14,072 37,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 14.29% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,632 8,593 15,905
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% +8.70%
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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JMeter in the UK

JMeter
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 23 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 +8 111 £60,000 -7.69% 24
UK excluding London +42 109 £55,000 -12.00% 19
Work from Home +26 64 £47,500 -26.92% 21
London +37 45 £75,000 +13.64% 10
Scotland -29 30 £60,000 -14.29% 2
South East 0 24 £47,500 -32.14% 5
North of England +31 23 £46,250 -17.41% 4
Yorkshire +77 14 £53,500 -14.40% 1
Midlands - 12 £60,000 - 1
Wales +16 10 £70,000 +32.10% 2
North West -2 9 £37,500 -31.82% 2
East Midlands - 9 £62,500 -
South West -12 8 £57,500 -14.81% 2
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 1
East of England +9 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 2 (1.29%) JBoss
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) Azure
2 44 (28.39%) AWS
3 33 (21.29%) BlazeMeter
4 18 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.61%) BrowserStack
5 13 (8.39%) GitHub
5 13 (8.39%) SaaS
6 8 (5.16%) GCP
7 7 (4.52%) Sauce Labs
7 7 (4.52%) Serverless
8 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.29%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
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
5 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.29%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
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 60 (38.71%) Selenium
2 37 (23.87%) Postman
3 35 (22.58%) Jenkins
4 32 (20.65%) JUnit
5 28 (18.06%) Cucumber
6 26 (16.77%) Cypress.io
7 22 (14.19%) JIRA
8 21 (13.55%) LoadRunner
9 17 (10.97%) SoapUI
9 17 (10.97%) SpecFlow
10 15 (9.68%) Maven
11 14 (9.03%) Appium
12 13 (8.39%) Git
13 12 (7.74%) REST Assured
14 11 (7.10%) Gatling
14 11 (7.10%) WebDriver
15 9 (5.81%) Gradle
16 8 (5.16%) Mockito
16 8 (5.16%) Serenity BDD
17 7 (4.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (32.26%) Finance
2 37 (23.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (19.35%) Marketing
3 30 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 28 (18.06%) Law
5 19 (12.26%) Public Sector
6 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.45%) Retail
8 5 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.58%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.58%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.58%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
12 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
12 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (21.94%) Software Engineer
2 30 (19.35%) Lead
3 29 (18.71%) Java Engineer
4 28 (18.06%) Java Software Engineer
5 21 (13.55%) QA Engineer
5 21 (13.55%) Senior
6 19 (12.26%) Test Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) Full Stack Engineer
7 18 (11.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 16 (10.32%) Analyst
9 15 (9.68%) Tester
10 14 (9.03%) Developer
11 12 (7.74%) QA Leader
12 11 (7.10%) Test Analyst
13 10 (6.45%) 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 20 (12.90%) Spring
2 20 (12.90%) Spring Boot
3 19 (12.26%) Web Services
4 11 (7.10%) Playwright
4 11 (7.10%) REST
5 10 (6.45%) Swagger
6 9 (5.81%) Ext JS
7 8 (5.16%) .NET
7 8 (5.16%) SOAP
7 8 (5.16%) WireMock
8 7 (4.52%) RESTful
9 6 (3.87%) HTML
10 5 (3.23%) jQuery
10 5 (3.23%) Kafka
11 4 (2.58%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (2.58%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.58%) LDAP
11 4 (2.58%) OAuth
11 4 (2.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.42%) Market Risk
2 8 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.87%) Hackathon
3 6 (3.87%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.87%) Social Media
4 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) BBC
6 1 (0.65%) Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Linux
2 5 (3.23%) Unix
3 3 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (81.94%) Test Automation
2 98 (63.23%) Agile
3 65 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 65 (41.94%) Performance Testing
4 54 (34.84%) Software Testing
5 48 (30.97%) BDD
6 43 (27.74%) Microservices
7 40 (25.81%) SDLC
8 39 (25.16%) DevOps
8 39 (25.16%) TDD
9 38 (24.52%) Software Engineering
10 32 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (20.00%) Test Scripting
12 30 (19.35%) SDET
13 28 (18.06%) Operational Stability
14 27 (17.42%) Electronic Trading
14 27 (17.42%) Risk Management
15 23 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (14.19%) Full Stack Development
17 21 (13.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.55%) Java
2 44 (28.39%) SQL
3 34 (21.94%) C#
4 25 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.26%) Python
6 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.58%) Ruby
6 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.94%) Bash
7 3 (1.94%) C
8 2 (1.29%) Go
8 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) ISTQB
3 13 (8.39%) Degree
3 13 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.58%) GIAC
7 3 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.29%) ISEB
9 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (30.32%) QA
2 15 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (9.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.39%) Grafana
3 11 (7.10%) Kibana
4 9 (5.81%) Terraform
5 4 (2.58%) Ansible
6 2 (1.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.65%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.03%) Oracle
3 11 (7.10%) Splunk
4 9 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 9 (5.81%) TOWER Software
5 7 (4.52%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.87%) OutSystems
7 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.29%) Databricks
8 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.65%) Citrix
9 1 (0.65%) IBM
9 1 (0.65%) New Relic
9 1 (0.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow