The first table below looks at the demand for Stress Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Stress Testing over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 298 288 264
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -24
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 20 36 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.170% 0.274% 0.462%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.219% 0.358% 0.611%
Number of salaries quoted 20 34 63
Average salary £68,750 £65,500 £85,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.96% -22.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £57,500 £59,000
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9153 10068 11449
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.80% 76.64% 75.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7868 9137 10224
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,400 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Stress Testing
London

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Stress Testing across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Stress Testing across the City of London region.

City of London Stress Testing Salary Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Stress Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Stress Testing Salary Histogram

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Stress Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Stress Testing.

1 26 (54.17%) Market Risk
2 18 (37.50%) C#
2 18 (37.50%) Finance
3 17 (35.42%) Banking
4 16 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 16 (33.33%) Java
5 14 (29.17%) Credit Risk
6 13 (27.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (27.08%) Risk Management
7 12 (25.00%) Derivative
7 12 (25.00%) Equities
8 10 (20.83%) VBA
9 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
9 9 (18.75%) C++
9 9 (18.75%) Automated Testing
9 9 (18.75%) Basel III
10 8 (16.67%) Fixed Income
10 8 (16.67%) Selenium
10 8 (16.67%) SQL
11 7 (14.58%) .NET
11 7 (14.58%) Mathematics
11 7 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
12 6 (12.50%) Software Testing
12 6 (12.50%) Sybase
12 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
12 6 (12.50%) HTTP
12 6 (12.50%) Project Management
12 6 (12.50%) Legal
12 6 (12.50%) Validation

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Stress Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
2 2 (4.167%) WPF
3 1 (2.083%) J2EE
3 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.083%) DCOM
3 1 (2.083%) CSS
3 1 (2.083%) STL
3 1 (2.083%) Web Services
3 1 (2.083%) MDX
3 1 (2.083%) WinForms
3 1 (2.083%) Spring
3 1 (2.083%) Ajax
3 1 (2.083%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (2.083%) Ext JS
3 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.083%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.083%) MSMQ
1 1 (2.083%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Office
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.083%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.083%) LAN
2 1 (2.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.42%) DB2
3 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.083%) OLAP
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Selenium
2 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.250%) LoadRunner
3 3 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (6.250%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.167%) NUnit
5 1 (2.083%) JMeter
5 1 (2.083%) TestDirector
5 1 (2.083%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.083%) JIRA
5 1 (2.083%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.083%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (37.50%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 16 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Legal
5 4 (8.333%) Front Office
6 1 (2.083%) Publishing
6 1 (2.083%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.083%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Market Risk Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Business Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Market Risk Business Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Risk Manager
3 7 (14.58%) Risk Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Market Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Consultant
5 5 (10.42%) Tester
5 5 (10.42%) Software Tester
5 5 (10.42%) Risk Consultant
6 4 (8.333%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (6.250%) Architect
7 3 (6.250%) Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Test Manager
7 3 (6.250%) Performance Test Manager
7 3 (6.250%) Report Analyst
7 3 (6.250%) Performance Manager
7 3 (6.250%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 26 (54.17%) Market Risk
2 14 (29.17%) Credit Risk
3 13 (27.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (25.00%) Derivative
4 12 (25.00%) Equities
5 8 (16.67%) Fixed Income
6 7 (14.58%) Mathematics
7 5 (10.42%) Grid Computing
7 5 (10.42%) Clustering
8 2 (4.167%) Economics
9 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
9 1 (2.083%) Statistics
9 1 (2.083%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (2.083%) Mobile App
9 1 (2.083%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Solaris
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 3 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Risk Management
2 9 (18.75%) Automated Testing
3 7 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 6 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 6 (12.50%) Project Management
4 6 (12.50%) Validation
5 5 (10.42%) Scrum
5 5 (10.42%) Stochastic Calculus
6 4 (8.333%) Test Automation
6 4 (8.333%) Test Management
7 3 (6.250%) MVC
7 3 (6.250%) OOP
7 3 (6.250%) Web Testing
7 3 (6.250%) Performance Testing
7 3 (6.250%) Greeks
8 2 (4.167%) Monte Carlo Method
8 2 (4.167%) Statistical Modelling
8 2 (4.167%) Business Transformation
8 2 (4.167%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) C#
2 16 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (20.83%) VBA
4 9 (18.75%) C++
5 8 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (10.42%) MATLAB
6 5 (10.42%) R
7 3 (6.250%) C
7 3 (6.250%) Perl
8 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.083%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.083%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.333%) ISTQB
1 4 (8.333%) ISEB
2 3 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Basel III
2 5 (10.42%) MiFID
3 4 (8.333%) QA
4 1 (2.083%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Sybase
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.083%) Business Objects
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle
3 1 (2.083%) Telerik
City, London
The role also involves reviewing and challenging the capital management strategies, allocations and impairment assumptions in business planning, forecasting, stress testing and more... A good understanding of Basel...
Harnham
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013