JMeter Contracts

Apache JMeter
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 526 470
Rank change year-on-year +82 -56 +4
Contract jobs citing JMeter 148 162 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.82% 2.03% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 119 317
10th Percentile £363 £374 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £580
90th Percentile £603 £738 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -12.50% +8.11% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.64% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.64% - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,240 7,964 15,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.28% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,499 5,618 11,089
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 223 202
10th Percentile £30.60 £45.24 £38.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.70 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Daily rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JMeter over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JMeter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JMeter.

Hourly rate trend for JMeter in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMeter within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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
England +72 127 £468 -10.95% 20
London +78 77 £475 -12.84% 10
Work from Home +126 66 £465 -2.11% 17
UK excluding London +45 53 £438 -12.50% 12
North of England +19 18 £425 -29.17% 3
Yorkshire +23 13 £425 -10.53%
South East +4 12 £425 -0.29% 5
Midlands +22 11 £525 +10.53%
East Midlands +18 10 £489 +15.00%
South West +13 5 £500 -34.10% 1
North West +11 5 £488 -18.75% 1
Scotland +42 4 £625 +31.58% 1
Wales +19 3 £363 -30.95%
West Midlands +12 1 £525 +7.69%

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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 29 (19.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) JBoss
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.68%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.32%) AWS
1 36 (24.32%) Azure
2 14 (9.46%) GitHub
3 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
3 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (6.76%) Serverless
5 9 (6.08%) Azure Functions
5 9 (6.08%) BlazeMeter
5 9 (6.08%) BrowserStack
5 9 (6.08%) Firebase
6 8 (5.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 5 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.03%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.03%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) HTTP
2 3 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.05%) MySQL
4 5 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.70%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.03%) Big Data
6 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (36.49%) JIRA
1 54 (36.49%) Selenium
2 31 (20.95%) Jenkins
3 30 (20.27%) LoadRunner
4 27 (18.24%) Cucumber
5 26 (17.57%) Cypress.io
6 25 (16.89%) Postman
7 17 (11.49%) Git
8 15 (10.14%) GitLab
9 11 (7.43%) SoapUI
10 10 (6.76%) Appium
10 10 (6.76%) JUnit
10 10 (6.76%) WebDriver
11 8 (5.41%) TestRail
12 7 (4.73%) Maven
12 7 (4.73%) NeoLoad
12 7 (4.73%) SpecFlow
13 6 (4.05%) Gatling
14 5 (3.38%) Bitbucket
15 4 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.46%) Banking
3 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Back Office
6 3 (2.03%) Front Office
6 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.03%) Retail
7 2 (1.35%) Automotive
7 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (22.97%) Tester
2 31 (20.95%) Test Engineer
3 25 (16.89%) Senior
4 23 (15.54%) Performance Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Lead
6 19 (12.84%) Test Manager
7 17 (11.49%) Performance Test Engineer
8 14 (9.46%) Analyst
9 13 (8.78%) Test Analyst
10 12 (8.11%) Test Leader
11 11 (7.43%) Performance Tester
12 10 (6.76%) QA Tester
13 9 (6.08%) Automation Tester
13 9 (6.08%) Senior Test Engineer
14 6 (4.05%) Performance Test Leader
14 6 (4.05%) QA Engineer
14 6 (4.05%) Senior Tester
15 5 (3.38%) Developer
15 5 (3.38%) Senior Performance Engineer
16 4 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) REST
2 17 (11.49%) Kafka
3 15 (10.14%) Node.js
4 13 (8.78%) Gherkin
4 13 (8.78%) Middleware
5 12 (8.11%) XML
6 11 (7.43%) React
6 11 (7.43%) WebdriverIO
7 10 (6.76%) LDAP
7 10 (6.76%) SOAP
8 9 (6.08%) Web Services
9 8 (5.41%) .NET
9 8 (5.41%) ADO
9 8 (5.41%) Playwright
10 7 (4.73%) Spring
11 6 (4.05%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (4.05%) JSON
11 6 (4.05%) Spring Boot
12 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.73%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.35%) PKI
4 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.68%) Replication
5 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.49%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.70%) Mac OS X
3 4 (2.70%) Windows
4 2 (1.35%) VMS
4 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.78%) Test Automation
2 67 (45.27%) Performance Testing
3 64 (43.24%) Agile
4 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
5 37 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 36 (24.32%) Test Management
7 27 (18.24%) Non-Functional Testing
8 26 (17.57%) BDD
8 26 (17.57%) DevOps
9 25 (16.89%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (16.22%) Scrum
11 21 (14.19%) TDD
12 20 (13.51%) Test Scripting
13 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.16%) Software Testing
14 17 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 15 (10.14%) Functional Testing
15 15 (10.14%) Scenario Testing
15 15 (10.14%) Test Planning
15 15 (10.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.11%) Java
2 38 (25.68%) Python
3 31 (20.95%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.81%) Shell Script
5 15 (10.14%) C#
6 14 (9.46%) SQL
7 8 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.05%) Groovy
9 4 (2.70%) C
9 4 (2.70%) C++
9 4 (2.70%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) ISTQB
4 7 (4.73%) Degree
5 6 (4.05%) ISEB
6 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.97%) QA
2 14 (9.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.41%) WCAG
4 2 (1.35%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (11.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.46%) Grafana
3 13 (8.78%) Terraform
4 10 (6.76%) Ansible
4 10 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.08%) Argo
6 7 (4.73%) Kibana
7 4 (2.70%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (11.49%) Oracle
2 13 (8.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.05%) Splunk
4 5 (3.38%) HP
4 5 (3.38%) SAP
5 3 (2.03%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.03%) Google
6 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) Finsemble
7 1 (0.68%) JDA
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) VMware