Stress Testing Contracts in Central London

Stress Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Stress Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stress Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 169
Rank change year-on-year +17 +37 +20
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 14 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.041% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.045% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £657 - £544
25th Percentile £667 - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 - £685
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.14%
75th Percentile £858 - £785
90th Percentile £895 - £835
London median daily rate £715 £577 £725
% change year-on-year +23.92% -20.41% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in Central London

Stress Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stress Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Stress Testing in Central London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in Central London

Stress Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stress Testing in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Stress Testing in Central London

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +21 14 £755 - 8
Stress Testing
London

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
1 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Big Data
1 5 (35.71%) Hadoop
2 3 (21.43%) Data Mining
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) SAS Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Market Risk
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (21.43%) Credit Risk
4 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Analytics
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (42.86%) Risk Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) Batch Processing
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
5 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (35.71%) Greeks
5 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
5 5 (35.71%) Memory Management
5 5 (35.71%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
5 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
7 3 (21.43%) SDLC
7 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Basel II
1 2 (14.29%) IFRS
1 2 (14.29%) IFRS 9
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) HP