Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £780 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 814 260 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.98% 93.86% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 155 245
10th Percentile £335 £209 £368
25th Percentile £408 £359 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £549 £596 £600
90th Percentile £675 £652 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.50 £12.62 £12.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.85 £17.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.42% -16.90% +68.06%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £44.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £17.28
% change year-on-year +22.28% +19.04% +62.54%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
Sheffield - 2 £780 - 1
Stress Testing
Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Insight Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Insight Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Insight Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Pricing Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Teradata