Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Stress Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.97% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Stress Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 437 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.39% 87.05% 81.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 294 406
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +1.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £580
90th Percentile £686 £689 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.40% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 43
10th Percentile £14.46 - £13.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.05 £16.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.53% -38.46% +25.57%
75th Percentile £69.06 £26.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.29 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.18 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +55.02% -2.00% -

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stress Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in Birmingham

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GCP
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Metadata
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (83.33%) JMeter
2 8 (44.44%) Cucumber
2 8 (44.44%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) JUnit
2 8 (44.44%) Selenium
2 8 (44.44%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Automation Tester
1 7 (38.89%) Performance Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Performance Test Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
1 7 (38.89%) Senior Automation Tester
1 7 (38.89%) Senior Tester
1 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Tester
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Insight Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Tester
4 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Spring
1 8 (44.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Distributed Architecture
2 7 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
4 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Load Testing
1 14 (77.78%) Performance Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Validation
3 9 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) BDD
4 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) Microservices
4 8 (44.44%) Observability
4 8 (44.44%) TDD
4 8 (44.44%) Test Strategy
5 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (38.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (38.89%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
5 7 (38.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 3 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Grafana
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Dynatrace
2 3 (16.67%) Teradata