Stress Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Stress Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Stress Testing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 722 681
Rank change year-on-year +195 -41 +149
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 50 49 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.066% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.080% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 38
10th Percentile - £38,640 £33,938
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,800 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £43,200 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -21.52% -8.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,884 £60,060
90th Percentile £74,695 £53,807 £103,911
UK median annual salary £58,750 £47,500 £55,043
% change year-on-year +23.68% -13.70% -8.26%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Stress Testing in the UK excluding London

Stress Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +41 16 £55,000 +16.12%
South East +99 14 £42,500 - 18
Midlands +88 10 £44,500 - 2
Yorkshire +59 10 £94,637 +83.66%
Scotland +118 7 £45,000 +4.17% 7
West Midlands +61 7 £44,500 -
North West +5 5 £55,000 -
South West +104 3 £45,000 -
East Midlands +45 3 - - 2
North East +41 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 4 (8.00%) SAS
2 3 (6.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Firebase
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) LAN
1 9 (18.00%) SD-WAN
1 9 (18.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) JMeter
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Appium
4 1 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) TestRail
General
1 41 (82.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (70.00%) Finance
3 25 (50.00%) Legal
4 23 (46.00%) Law
5 22 (44.00%) Financial Institution
5 22 (44.00%) Prime Brokerage
6 11 (22.00%) Banking
7 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Risk Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Testing Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Lead Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
1 3 (6.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (6.00%) CSS
1 3 (6.00%) HTML
1 3 (6.00%) JSON
1 3 (6.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (6.00%) Sass
1 3 (6.00%) Web Services
1 3 (6.00%) XML
2 2 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Blockchain
1 22 (44.00%) Derivative
1 22 (44.00%) Hedge funds
2 9 (18.00%) Credit Risk
3 7 (14.00%) Market Risk
3 7 (14.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.00%) Hackathon
5 3 (6.00%) Learning Management System
5 3 (6.00%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) Risk Management
2 22 (44.00%) Data Privacy
2 22 (44.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 22 (44.00%) Rehypothecation
3 14 (28.00%) Data Protection
4 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (24.00%) Customer Service
6 11 (22.00%) Agile
6 11 (22.00%) DevOps
6 11 (22.00%) Statistics
7 9 (18.00%) Budget Management
7 9 (18.00%) Business Continuity
7 9 (18.00%) Migration
8 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) Microservices
9 6 (12.00%) Analytics
9 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.00%) Data Science
10 5 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) Python
1 11 (22.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) C#
2 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.00%) R
4 3 (6.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (52.00%) GDPR
2 22 (44.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (8.00%) Basel II
3 4 (8.00%) Basel III
3 4 (8.00%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (8.00%) IFRS
3 4 (8.00%) IFRS 9
3 4 (8.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) Citrix
3 3 (6.00%) Google
3 3 (6.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle