Stress Testing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Stress Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Stress Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
England median daily rate £525 £715 £577
% change year-on-year -26.57% +23.92% -14.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,673 1,215 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.61% 88.75% 83.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,726 791 1,067
10th Percentile £313 £195 £273
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £669 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 55 115
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.20 £14.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.89% -15.56% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.19 £27.35 £41.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Stress Testing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Stress Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Stress Testing

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stress Testing in the West Midlands

Stress Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Birmingham - 17 £525 -
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (41.18%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Metadata
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) JMeter
2 7 (41.18%) Cucumber
2 7 (41.18%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 7 (41.18%) JUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Automation Tester
1 7 (41.18%) Performance Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Performance Test Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Senior
1 7 (41.18%) Senior Automation Tester
1 7 (41.18%) Senior Tester
1 7 (41.18%) Test Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Tester
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Insight Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Credit Risk
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Load Testing
1 14 (82.35%) Performance Testing
2 10 (58.82%) Validation
3 9 (52.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (47.06%) Data Validation
5 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) BDD
5 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (41.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (41.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (41.18%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Observability
5 7 (41.18%) TDD
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 7 (41.18%) Test Strategy
5 7 (41.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Pricing Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
1 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Dynatrace
2 3 (17.65%) Teradata