Stress Testing Jobs

Stress Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Stress Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Stress Testing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 820 1093
Rank change year-on-year -38 +273 -210
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 64 125 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 60 85
10th Percentile £37,900 £35,733 £36,625
25th Percentile £40,800 £36,383 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,350 £55,043 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% -8.26% +9.09%
75th Percentile £50,938 £100,938 £96,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £103,911 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,200 £55,043 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.52% -8.26% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Stress Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024. 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 -15 57 £47,500 -13.70% 36
UK excluding London -89 47 £43,200 -21.52% 16
North of England +31 25 £43,200 -21.52% 5
Work from Home +16 16 £43,200 -36.00% 16
London +51 15 £47,500 -29.63% 22
North West -3 10 - - 4
Yorkshire +61 8 - - 1
Midlands -31 8 - - 2
North East -11 7 £43,200 -49.18%
Scotland -65 7 £43,200 -21.52% 2
West Midlands -9 4 - - 1
East Midlands -34 4 - - 1
South West -47 4 - - 1
South East -14 3 - - 6

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 47 (73.44%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.69%) AWS
1 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Hazelcast
1 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
1 4 (6.25%) Selenium
2 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Gatling
3 1 (1.56%) JMeter
3 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (78.13%) Social Skills
2 47 (73.44%) Finance
3 44 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (68.75%) Banking
4 41 (64.06%) Legal
5 40 (62.50%) Publishing
6 6 (9.38%) Retail
7 4 (6.25%) Police
8 3 (4.69%) Marketing
9 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.13%) Law
10 1 (1.56%) Front Office
10 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (64.06%) Senior
2 40 (62.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 6 (9.38%) Analyst
3 6 (9.38%) Data Scientist
3 6 (9.38%) Test Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Systems Test Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Developer
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Linux Developer
6 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Unix Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Angular Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Principal Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Principal Java Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Senior Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Angular 2
3 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (73.44%) Credit Risk
2 3 (4.69%) Robotics
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (65.63%) Analytics
1 42 (65.63%) Risk Management
2 41 (64.06%) Economics
3 40 (62.50%) Benchmarking
3 40 (62.50%) Budget Responsibility
3 40 (62.50%) Data Analysis
4 14 (21.88%) Test Automation
5 9 (14.06%) Software Testing
6 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Agile
7 7 (10.94%) API Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Functional Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Regression Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Validation
8 6 (9.38%) Credit Risk Modelling
8 6 (9.38%) Data Science
8 6 (9.38%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (9.38%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (9.38%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) R
2 5 (7.81%) Java
3 4 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (73.44%) IFRS
1 47 (73.44%) IFRS 9
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Conga
1 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
1 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud