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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 706 671
Rank change year-on-year +189 -35 +154
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 58 57 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.095% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 27
10th Percentile - £40,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,143 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,528 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -6.39% -8.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,884 £94,456
90th Percentile £68,125 - £103,911
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,528 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.74% -10.39% -4.17%

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 36,988 59,840 56,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.56% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,070 41,306 29,083
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 19 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 19 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 +34 20 £55,000 +6.74% 17
South East +106 14 £42,500 - 9
Yorkshire +60 13 £45,000 -12.67% 7
Midlands +72 10 £44,500 - 5
Scotland +121 9 £45,000 +4.17% 7
West Midlands +46 7 £44,500 - 3
South West +105 5 £45,000 -30.77% 3
North West -8 5 £55,000 - 8
East Midlands +24 3 - - 2
North East +36 2 £65,000 +50.46% 2
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 5 (8.62%) SAS
2 3 (5.17%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) AWS
4 3 (5.17%) Firebase
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) IaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) LAN
1 9 (15.52%) SD-WAN
1 9 (15.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JMeter
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.72%) Appium
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) TestRail
General
1 42 (72.41%) Finance
1 42 (72.41%) Social Skills
2 31 (53.45%) Legal
3 23 (39.66%) Law
4 22 (37.93%) Financial Institution
4 22 (37.93%) Prime Brokerage
5 18 (31.03%) Banking
6 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Risk Manager
2 9 (15.52%) Graduate
3 8 (13.79%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Testing Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) .NET
2 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (5.17%) CSS
2 3 (5.17%) HTML
2 3 (5.17%) JSON
2 3 (5.17%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (5.17%) Sass
2 3 (5.17%) Web Services
2 3 (5.17%) XML
3 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) React
4 1 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Blockchain
1 22 (37.93%) Derivative
1 22 (37.93%) Hedge funds
2 13 (22.41%) Mobile App
3 10 (17.24%) Credit Risk
4 9 (15.52%) Hackathon
4 9 (15.52%) Learning Management System
5 8 (13.79%) Market Risk
6 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
7 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
8 3 (5.17%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Android
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Risk Management
2 22 (37.93%) Data Privacy
2 22 (37.93%) Proactive Monitoring
2 22 (37.93%) Rehypothecation
3 19 (32.76%) Agile
3 19 (32.76%) DevOps
4 18 (31.03%) Customer Service
5 15 (25.86%) Data Protection
6 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 14 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) Statistics
8 9 (15.52%) API Development
8 9 (15.52%) API Integration
8 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (15.52%) Budget Management
8 9 (15.52%) Business Continuity
8 9 (15.52%) Customer Experience
8 9 (15.52%) Fintech
8 9 (15.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) C#
2 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.69%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) Java
5 9 (15.52%) Kotlin
6 5 (8.62%) R
7 1 (1.72%) Bash
7 1 (1.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Degree
2 10 (17.24%) Master's Degree
3 9 (15.52%) PhD
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (46.55%) GDPR
2 22 (37.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (8.62%) Basel II
3 5 (8.62%) Basel III
3 5 (8.62%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (8.62%) IFRS
3 5 (8.62%) IFRS 9
3 5 (8.62%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.52%) Citrix
2 9 (15.52%) Google
2 9 (15.52%) IBM
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle