Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Stress Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £442 £585 -
25th Percentile £455 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £684 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% - -
75th Percentile £594 £741 -
90th Percentile £658 £772 -
London median daily rate £521 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.41% +4.65%

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 1,833 2,150 2,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.52% 92.24% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,346 1,713
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £465 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -35.93%
75th Percentile £35.75 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £46.39 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
% change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in Central London

Stress Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stress Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stress Testing

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 25 December 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 0 3 £483 -29.41% 3
Stress Testing
London

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Market Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Market Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Market Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Murex Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Murex Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Equities
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Greeks
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CFA
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Basel III
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Murex