Stress Testing Jobs

Stress Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 824 838
Rank change year-on-year +198 +14 +249
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 85 70 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.070% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.082% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42 25 56
10th Percentile £41,250 - -
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,800 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £51,528 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -6.39% -8.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,884 £103,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £103,911
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £51,528 £55,043
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.39% -8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,236 85,141 94,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.08% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,106 59,815 55,546
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Stress Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stress Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Stress Testing.

Salary trend for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Stress Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Stress Testing in the UK

Stress Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +187 77 £60,000 +21.18% 75
UK excluding London +186 51 £44,500 -13.64% 40
Work from Home +148 36 £67,500 +42.11% 41
London +118 23 £70,000 +47.37% 54
North of England +30 17 £55,000 +6.74% 5
South East +106 14 £42,500 - 22
Yorkshire +59 11 £94,637 +83.66%
Midlands +74 10 £44,500 - 3
Scotland +121 7 £45,000 +4.17% 5
West Midlands +71 7 £44,500 -
North West -3 5 £55,000 - 4
South West +103 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East Midlands +35 3 - - 3
North East +41 1 - - 1

Stress Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.76%) SAS
2 3 (3.53%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.59%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.88%) AWS
5 5 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) dbt
6 3 (3.53%) Firebase
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.35%) Serverless
7 2 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) LAN
1 9 (10.59%) SD-WAN
1 9 (10.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.71%) Tableau
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.35%) OLAP
4 2 (2.35%) OLTP
5 1 (1.18%) Base SAS
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.18%) Power BI
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) JMeter
3 2 (2.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Appium
4 1 (1.18%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.18%) Postman
4 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.18%) TestRail
4 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (64.71%) Finance
2 52 (61.18%) Social Skills
3 27 (31.76%) Legal
4 25 (29.41%) Financial Institution
4 25 (29.41%) Law
5 24 (28.24%) Prime Brokerage
6 17 (20.00%) Banking
7 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (11.76%) Tech for Good
9 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.53%) Marketing
11 2 (2.35%) Advertising
11 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) Risk Manager
2 19 (22.35%) Analyst
3 10 (11.76%) Application Development Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Applications Development Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Applications Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Development Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Lead
4 8 (9.41%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Testing Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Lead Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) .NET
2 4 (4.71%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.71%) JSON
2 4 (4.71%) XML
3 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (3.53%) CSS
3 3 (3.53%) HTML
3 3 (3.53%) PySpark
3 3 (3.53%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (3.53%) Sass
3 3 (3.53%) Web Services
4 2 (2.35%) Node.js
4 2 (2.35%) REST
4 2 (2.35%) Spring
5 1 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.24%) Blockchain
1 24 (28.24%) Derivative
1 24 (28.24%) Hedge funds
2 15 (17.65%) Credit Risk
2 15 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.41%) Market Risk
4 7 (8.24%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.53%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.53%) Learning Management System
6 3 (3.53%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Android
1 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.82%) Risk Management
2 31 (36.47%) Agile
3 25 (29.41%) DevOps
4 24 (28.24%) Data Privacy
4 24 (28.24%) Proactive Monitoring
4 24 (28.24%) Rehypothecation
5 20 (23.53%) Statistics
6 18 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
8 15 (17.65%) Data Protection
9 13 (15.29%) Analytics
9 13 (15.29%) BDD
10 12 (14.12%) Customer Service
10 12 (14.12%) TDD
11 11 (12.94%) Business Continuity
11 11 (12.94%) System Testing
11 11 (12.94%) Unit Testing
12 10 (11.76%) Integration Testing
12 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.24%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) SQL
3 14 (16.47%) R
4 7 (8.24%) C#
5 6 (7.06%) C
5 6 (7.06%) Java
5 6 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.35%) VBA
8 1 (1.18%) Bash
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.53%) PhD
4 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (36.47%) GDPR
2 24 (28.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 15 (17.65%) IFRS
3 15 (17.65%) IFRS 9
4 11 (12.94%) Accessibility
5 7 (8.24%) PCI DSS
6 6 (7.06%) Basel III
7 5 (5.88%) Basel II
7 5 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (4.71%) QA
9 2 (2.35%) SLA
10 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.53%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Citrix
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle