Stress Testing Contracts in London

Stress Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 380 437
Rank change year-on-year +66 +57 +64
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 36 16 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.092% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.10% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 48
10th Percentile £620 £348 £584
25th Percentile £633 £359 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £471 £720
Median % change year-on-year +51.80% -34.58% +2.86%
75th Percentile £819 £614 £950
90th Percentile £838 £770 £1,023
England median daily rate £715 £589 £675
% change year-on-year +21.50% -12.81% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in London

Stress Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Stress Testing in London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in London

Stress Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Stress Testing in London

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +17 16 £755 - 5
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (19.44%) Apache
1 7 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) IIS
2 2 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Big Data
1 7 (19.44%) Hadoop
2 6 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 6 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) Data Mart
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JMeter
2 9 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 7 (19.44%) Git
3 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) Ant
General
1 24 (66.67%) Finance
2 22 (61.11%) Banking
3 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 7 (19.44%) Investment Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Front Office
7 1 (2.78%) Back Office
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Test Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Financial Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) QA Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) QA Test Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Apache Spark Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Consultant
5 6 (16.67%) Risk Consultant
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Market Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (19.44%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Market Risk
2 9 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (19.44%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (11.11%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.78%) Derivative
6 1 (2.78%) Equities
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.78%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Analytics
2 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 10 (27.78%) Non-Functional Testing
4 10 (27.78%) Regulatory Compliance
4 10 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (19.44%) Batch Processing
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 7 (19.44%) Code Quality
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (19.44%) Greeks
6 7 (19.44%) Mathematics
6 7 (19.44%) Memory Management
6 7 (19.44%) Risk Analytics
7 6 (16.67%) Scrum
7 6 (16.67%) SDLC
7 6 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 17 (47.22%) Java
3 14 (38.89%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) Bash
4 8 (22.22%) VB
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) CFA
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 6 (16.67%) Basel II
3 3 (8.33%) Basel III
4 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.56%) IFRS
4 2 (5.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (2.78%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (2.78%) EMIR
5 1 (2.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Murex
2 2 (5.56%) Calypso
3 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.78%) HP
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft