Stress Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Stress Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 328 452
Rank change year-on-year +30 +124 +130
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 6 17 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.11% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 20
10th Percentile £659 £296 £405
25th Percentile £673 £360 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £575 £654
Median % change year-on-year +31.30% -12.08% +6.34%
75th Percentile £838 £600 £950
90th Percentile £887 - £953
UK median daily rate £715 £563 £675
% change year-on-year +27.11% -16.67% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Stress Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Stress Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Stress Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Stress Testing.

Stress Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Stress Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Stress Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Risk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Risk Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Monitoring Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Report Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Epics
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CFA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Basel II
2 1 (16.67%) Basel III
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Calypso
1 1 (16.67%) Murex