Stress Testing Contracts in England

Stress Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 507 573
Rank change year-on-year +84 +66 +88
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 48 26 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.071% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.083% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 56
10th Percentile £611 £358 £514
25th Percentile £633 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £589 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% -12.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £798 £600 £950
90th Percentile £838 £725 £1,000
UK median daily rate £715 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +24.35% -14.81% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in England

Stress Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Stress Testing in England

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in England

Stress Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Stress Testing in England

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +70 36 £715 +51.80% 52
South East +46 11 £650 +8.33% 8
East of England - 1 - -
Stress Testing
UK

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (25.00%) SAS
2 7 (14.58%) Apache
2 7 (14.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Big Data
1 7 (14.58%) Hadoop
2 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 6 (12.50%) Power BI
3 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.17%) Data Mart
4 2 (4.17%) MySQL
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Tableau
5 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) JMeter
2 9 (18.75%) LoadRunner
3 7 (14.58%) Git
3 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) Ant
4 1 (2.08%) LabVIEW
General
1 27 (56.25%) Banking
1 27 (56.25%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Test Analyst
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Test Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (16.67%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 8 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 8 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Apache Spark Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Java Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 6 (12.50%) Consultant
6 6 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
6 6 (12.50%) Risk Consultant
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (14.58%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Market Risk
2 14 (29.17%) Credit Risk
3 9 (18.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (14.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (14.58%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Derivative
6 1 (2.08%) Equities
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
1 10 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Analytics
2 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (27.08%) Risk Management
4 11 (22.92%) Portfolio Management
5 10 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
5 10 (20.83%) Regulatory Compliance
5 10 (20.83%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (18.75%) Agile
6 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (18.75%) Validation
7 7 (14.58%) Batch Processing
7 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.58%) Code Quality
7 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (14.58%) Greeks
7 7 (14.58%) Mathematics
7 7 (14.58%) Memory Management
7 7 (14.58%) Risk Analytics
8 6 (12.50%) Credit Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
2 17 (35.42%) Java
3 16 (33.33%) SQL
4 8 (16.67%) Bash
4 8 (16.67%) VB
5 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) CFA
2 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) IFRS
1 12 (25.00%) IFRS 9
2 9 (18.75%) QA
3 6 (12.50%) Basel II
4 3 (6.25%) Basel III
5 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.08%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (2.08%) EMIR
6 1 (2.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Murex
2 2 (4.17%) Calypso
3 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.08%) HP
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft