Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Stress Testing
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 164 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.098% 0.049% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.058% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £406 £281 -
25th Percentile £461 £301 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £334 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.50% - -
75th Percentile £519 £367 -
90th Percentile £553 £387 -
England median daily rate £650 £400 £620
% change year-on-year +62.50% -35.43% -3.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,608 3,470 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.78% 84.31% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,365 1,907 3,022
10th Percentile £254 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 180 212
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.15 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.57 £35.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +27.93% +30.95%
75th Percentile £40.49 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.65 £70.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +45.90%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in the North of England

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
North West -10 3 £492 +47.31% 1
North East - 1 £550 -
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (50.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MBA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Pega
2 1 (25.00%) Anaplan
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP