Stress Testing Contracts in the City of London

Stress Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 126 173
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 +13
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 15 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.046% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.050% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £659 - £544
25th Percentile £673 - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 - £685
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.14%
75th Percentile £838 - £785
90th Percentile £887 - £835
Central London median daily rate £755 - £685
% change year-on-year - - -2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in the City of London

Stress Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stress Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Stress Testing in the City of London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in the City of London

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 5 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
1 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (26.67%) Data Mining
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Apache Spark Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) SAS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (13.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Market Risk
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (40.00%) Risk Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Batch Processing
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (33.33%) Greeks
5 5 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 5 (33.33%) Memory Management
5 5 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 4 (26.67%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Basel II
2 2 (13.33%) IFRS
2 2 (13.33%) IFRS 9
3 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) HP