Stress Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Stress Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Stress Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 874 1058
Rank change year-on-year +54 +184 -201
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 76 114 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.11% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.11% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 84
10th Percentile £40,800 £35,284 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,525 £35,733 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £90,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.75% +48.76% +10.00%
75th Percentile £52,884 £103,911 £91,463
90th Percentile £67,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -14.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Stress Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,682 99,385 149,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.98% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,837 58,365 83,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Stress Testing.

Salary trend for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +96 64 £51,528 -42.75% 35
UK excluding London -23 60 £51,528 +0.54% 7
North of England +61 32 £51,528 -27.68% 2
Work from Home +40 21 £47,500 -34.48% 13
Yorkshire +97 17 £51,528 +40.41%
London +110 14 £47,500 -34.48% 28
North West +18 8 - - 2
Midlands -3 8 - -
Scotland -53 8 £47,364 +29.06% 2
North East -1 7 £43,200 -49.18%
South West -22 5 £65,000 -33.97% 2
West Midlands +22 4 - -
East Midlands -20 4 - -
Wales - 4 £51,528 -
South East +11 3 - - 1

Stress Testing
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 62 (81.58%) SAS
2 15 (19.74%) Apache
2 15 (19.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (2.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
1 2 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 62 (81.58%) Finance
1 62 (81.58%) Social Skills
2 59 (77.63%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (77.63%) Banking
3 41 (53.95%) Legal
4 40 (52.63%) Publishing
5 22 (28.95%) Retail
6 15 (19.74%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (11.84%) Retail Finance
8 4 (5.26%) Police
9 3 (3.95%) Marketing
10 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.63%) Law
11 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (72.37%) Senior
2 40 (52.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 21 (27.63%) Analyst
4 15 (19.74%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Data Scientist
5 6 (7.89%) Test Analyst
6 4 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (5.26%) Systems Test Analyst
6 4 (5.26%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Developer
7 2 (2.63%) Developer
7 2 (2.63%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.63%) Linux Developer
7 2 (2.63%) Unix Developer
8 1 (1.32%) Angular Developer
8 1 (1.32%) Development Manager
8 1 (1.32%) Full Stack Developer
8 1 (1.32%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 1 (1.32%) Principal Java Developer
8 1 (1.32%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (1.32%) Angular 2
3 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (81.58%) Credit Risk
2 3 (3.95%) Robotics
3 1 (1.32%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
1 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (73.68%) Economics
1 56 (73.68%) Risk Management
2 50 (65.79%) Analytics
3 40 (52.63%) Benchmarking
3 40 (52.63%) Budget Responsibility
3 40 (52.63%) Data Analysis
4 22 (28.95%) Validation
5 19 (25.00%) Agile
6 17 (22.37%) Mathematics
7 16 (21.05%) Physics
7 16 (21.05%) Statistics
8 15 (19.74%) Credit Risk Management
8 15 (19.74%) IT Strategy
8 15 (19.74%) Operations Research
8 15 (19.74%) Statistical Analysis
8 15 (19.74%) Statistical Modelling
8 15 (19.74%) Technology Strategy
9 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.53%) Functional Testing
10 8 (10.53%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) R
2 16 (21.05%) Python
3 4 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (81.58%) IFRS
1 62 (81.58%) IFRS 9
2 15 (19.74%) CRD IV
3 3 (3.95%) QA
4 2 (2.63%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (3.95%) Conga
1 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
1 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud