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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 511 464
Rank change year-on-year +75 -47 -5
Contract jobs citing JMeter 138 190 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% 2.24% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 138 328
10th Percentile £362 £409 £363
25th Percentile £413 £440 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +4.57% +11.30%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £575
90th Percentile £603 £738 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 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 £84.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.60 -
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 5,134 8,483 15,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 5,983 11,126
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £462 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 231 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.60 £38.48
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.50 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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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 15 May 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 15 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
England +52 117 £454 -12.02% 20
London +85 69 £482 -9.15% 8
Work from Home +100 61 £453 -7.50% 22
UK excluding London +17 50 £425 -15.00% 17
North of England +9 20 £425 -19.05% 3
Yorkshire +29 15 £425 -10.53%
Midlands +34 11 £525 +10.53% 2
East Midlands +24 10 £489 +15.00%
South East +6 10 £425 -5.56% 2
North West -1 5 £488 -15.22% 3
Scotland +45 4 £625 +17.65% 4
South West +16 3 £500 -34.10% 3
Wales +21 2 £363 -42.00% 1
West Midlands +17 1 £525 +7.69% 2

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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 26 (18.84%) Confluence
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.72%) JBoss
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.72%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.54%) AWS
2 28 (20.29%) Azure
3 14 (10.14%) GitHub
4 10 (7.25%) Azure AKS
4 10 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (7.25%) Serverless
5 9 (6.52%) Azure Functions
6 7 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (5.07%) BlazeMeter
6 7 (5.07%) BrowserStack
6 7 (5.07%) Firebase
7 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) HTTP
2 3 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.62%) MySQL
4 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.90%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.17%) Big Data
5 3 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.72%) Power BI
7 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (41.30%) Selenium
2 51 (36.96%) JIRA
3 29 (21.01%) Jenkins
4 28 (20.29%) Cucumber
5 24 (17.39%) Cypress.io
6 23 (16.67%) LoadRunner
7 19 (13.77%) Git
7 19 (13.77%) Postman
8 14 (10.14%) GitLab
9 13 (9.42%) JUnit
9 13 (9.42%) SoapUI
10 12 (8.70%) WebDriver
11 9 (6.52%) TestRail
12 8 (5.80%) Appium
13 7 (5.07%) Gatling
13 7 (5.07%) NeoLoad
14 6 (4.35%) REST Assured
14 6 (4.35%) SpecFlow
14 6 (4.35%) TestNG
15 5 (3.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Banking
6 7 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Front Office
8 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Automotive
9 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (23.19%) Tester
2 31 (22.46%) Test Engineer
3 20 (14.49%) Performance Engineer
4 19 (13.77%) Lead
4 19 (13.77%) Senior
5 16 (11.59%) Test Manager
6 15 (10.87%) Performance Test Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Analyst
7 11 (7.97%) Test Analyst
8 10 (7.25%) Performance Tester
8 10 (7.25%) Test Leader
9 9 (6.52%) QA Tester
10 8 (5.80%) Automation Tester
10 8 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) QA Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Tester
12 4 (2.90%) Developer
12 4 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.94%) REST
2 16 (11.59%) Kafka
2 16 (11.59%) Node.js
3 13 (9.42%) SOAP
4 12 (8.70%) XML
5 11 (7.97%) Gherkin
6 10 (7.25%) LDAP
6 10 (7.25%) Middleware
6 10 (7.25%) React
7 9 (6.52%) Spring
7 9 (6.52%) Web Services
8 8 (5.80%) ADO
8 8 (5.80%) WebdriverIO
9 7 (5.07%) .NET
9 7 (5.07%) Playwright
9 7 (5.07%) Spring Boot
10 6 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (3.62%) JSON
12 4 (2.90%) .NET Core
13 3 (2.17%) Chai
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.07%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.45%) PKI
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.72%) Replication
6 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.59%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Mac OS X
2 4 (2.90%) Unix
2 4 (2.90%) Windows
3 2 (1.45%) VMS
3 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (58.70%) Test Automation
2 56 (40.58%) Performance Testing
3 54 (39.13%) Agile
4 42 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 31 (22.46%) Test Management
6 30 (21.74%) Test Strategy
7 28 (20.29%) BDD
8 23 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (15.22%) Scrum
9 21 (15.22%) Test Scripting
10 20 (14.49%) DevOps
10 20 (14.49%) TDD
11 18 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
12 17 (12.32%) Software Testing
13 14 (10.14%) Analytics
13 14 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (10.14%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.14%) Test Planning
14 13 (9.42%) API Testing
14 13 (9.42%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.23%) Java
2 35 (25.36%) Python
3 24 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.59%) Shell Script
5 14 (10.14%) C#
5 14 (10.14%) SQL
6 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.62%) C
7 5 (3.62%) Groovy
8 4 (2.90%) C++
8 4 (2.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.07%) Degree
5 6 (4.35%) ISEB
6 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.64%) QA
2 12 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.45%) HL7
System Software
1 19 (13.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) Grafana
2 13 (9.42%) Terraform
3 10 (7.25%) Ansible
3 10 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.52%) Argo
5 7 (5.07%) Kibana
6 4 (2.90%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) Oracle
2 9 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.35%) Splunk
4 5 (3.62%) HP
4 5 (3.62%) SAP
5 3 (2.17%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.45%) Google
6 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.72%) Finsemble
7 1 (0.72%) JDA
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.72%) VMware