Stress Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 380 443
Rank change year-on-year +46 +63 +52
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 14 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.074% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.088% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 5
10th Percentile £479 £280 -
25th Percentile £565 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £420
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +36.90% -1.18%
75th Percentile - £600 £545
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +48 11 £650 +8.33% 6
Scotland +4 1 £325 +16.07% 3
East of England - 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £590 - 1
Stress Testing
UK

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (71.43%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Credit Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Credit Risk Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Actuary
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Controller
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Portfolio Management
3 6 (42.86%) Validation
4 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk Management
4 5 (35.71%) Internal Audit
5 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Model Validation
6 1 (7.14%) PnL Attribution
6 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) IFRS
1 10 (71.43%) IFRS 9
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality