Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stress Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% -
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 -
Central London median daily rate £483 £684 -
% change year-on-year -29.41% - -

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 1,658 1,907 2,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 92.21% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,165 1,592
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 10
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -24.84% +30.84% -35.93%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stress Testing

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 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in the City of London

Stress Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stress Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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