The first table below looks at the demand for TestNG skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TestNG over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TestNG
Rank 476 532 521
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -11
Contract jobs citing TestNG 38 38 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.090% 0.070% 0.078%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.814% 0.749% 0.726%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 16
Average daily rate £372 £400 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.00% -7.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4666 5076 5924
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.05% 9.357% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2989 3074 3416
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 207 309
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
TestNG
UK

TestNG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TestNG across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

England TestNG Jobs Demand Trend

TestNG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TestNG across the England region.

England TestNG Daily Rate Trend

TestNG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TestNG across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England TestNG Daily Rate Histogram

TestNG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestNG within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +15 20 £400 -
South East - 12 £400 -
Yorkshire +3 3 £354 -11.62%
East Midlands - 2 £320 -
North West - 1 £300 -
TestNG
UK

TestNG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TestNG also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TestNG.

1 61 (88.41%) Java
2 42 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
3 41 (59.42%) JUnit
4 37 (53.62%) Selenium
5 34 (49.28%) Spring
6 31 (44.93%) Hibernate
7 26 (37.68%) Maven
7 26 (37.68%) BDD
8 25 (36.23%) Jenkins
9 22 (31.88%) WebDriver
10 20 (28.99%) QA
11 18 (26.09%) TDD
12 16 (23.19%) J2EE
13 15 (21.74%) SQL
14 14 (20.29%) OO
14 14 (20.29%) E-Commerce
14 14 (20.29%) Automated Testing
14 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
14 14 (20.29%) Cucumber
15 13 (18.84%) Scrum
16 12 (17.39%) Guice
16 12 (17.39%) DbUnit
16 12 (17.39%) GWT
17 11 (15.94%) Hudson
17 11 (15.94%) Apache
18 10 (14.49%) Tomcat
18 10 (14.49%) Web Services
18 10 (14.49%) Mockito
18 10 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
18 10 (14.49%) RESTful

TestNG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TestNG also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TestNG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (49.28%) Spring
2 31 (44.93%) Hibernate
3 16 (23.19%) J2EE
4 12 (17.39%) Guice
4 12 (17.39%) GWT
5 10 (14.49%) Web Services
5 10 (14.49%) RESTful
6 9 (13.04%) XML
6 9 (13.04%) Java EE
7 8 (11.59%) Spring Security
7 8 (11.59%) Spring Batch
8 7 (10.14%) SOAP
9 6 (8.696%) JDBC
10 5 (7.246%) soapUI
10 5 (7.246%) REST
10 5 (7.246%) Ehcache
10 5 (7.246%) JMS
10 5 (7.246%) Tapestry
10 5 (7.246%) WebSphere
11 4 (5.797%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.94%) Apache
2 10 (14.49%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.348%) Jetty
3 3 (4.348%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.899%) ESB
4 2 (2.899%) WebSphere Process Server
5 1 (1.449%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (4.348%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.797%) Internet
2 3 (4.348%) TELNET
2 3 (4.348%) SNMP
2 3 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.696%) MySQL
3 3 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.348%) JasperReports
4 2 (2.899%) DB2
4 2 (2.899%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (2.899%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.899%) Redis
4 2 (2.899%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.899%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.449%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.449%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.449%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.449%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.449%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.449%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 41 (59.42%) JUnit
2 37 (53.62%) Selenium
3 26 (37.68%) Maven
4 25 (36.23%) Jenkins
5 22 (31.88%) WebDriver
6 14 (20.29%) Cucumber
7 12 (17.39%) DbUnit
8 11 (15.94%) Hudson
9 10 (14.49%) Mockito
10 9 (13.04%) Eclipse
11 8 (11.59%) FitNesse
12 7 (10.14%) Subversion
13 5 (7.246%) EasyMock
14 4 (5.797%) Checkstyle
14 4 (5.797%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (5.797%) WATIR
14 4 (5.797%) jMock
14 4 (5.797%) FindBugs
15 3 (4.348%) JBehave
15 3 (4.348%) Subclipse
General
1 8 (11.59%) Finance
2 4 (5.797%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.348%) Electronics
3 3 (4.348%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.348%) Marketing
4 1 (1.449%) Advertising
4 1 (1.449%) Publishing
4 1 (1.449%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
2 30 (43.48%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Tester
3 7 (10.14%) QA Engineer
4 6 (8.696%) Test Analyst
4 6 (8.696%) Analyst
5 5 (7.246%) QA Leader
5 5 (7.246%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 4 (5.797%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (5.797%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.797%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.797%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.348%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.348%) Architect
7 3 (4.348%) J2EE Developer
7 3 (4.348%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.899%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.899%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (2.899%) QA Tester
8 2 (2.899%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.246%) Open Source
1 5 (7.246%) Computer Science
2 3 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.348%) DTV
2 3 (4.348%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.899%) W3C
3 2 (2.899%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.449%) New Media
4 1 (1.449%) SWIFT
4 1 (1.449%) Wiki
4 1 (1.449%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.449%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.449%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.246%) Linux
2 4 (5.797%) Windows
3 3 (4.348%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.348%) Android
4 2 (2.899%) UNIX
5 1 (1.449%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
2 26 (37.68%) BDD
3 18 (26.09%) TDD
4 14 (20.29%) OO
4 14 (20.29%) E-Commerce
4 14 (20.29%) Automated Testing
4 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.84%) Scrum
6 10 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
8 7 (10.14%) Test Strategy
8 7 (10.14%) Test Scripting
8 7 (10.14%) Multithreading
9 6 (8.696%) MVC
9 6 (8.696%) Automation Testing
10 5 (7.246%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (7.246%) UML
11 4 (5.797%) Software Engineering
11 4 (5.797%) Data Modelling
11 4 (5.797%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (88.41%) Java
2 15 (21.74%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) Groovy
4 6 (8.696%) Ruby
4 6 (8.696%) C#
5 5 (7.246%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.797%) C
7 3 (4.348%) Perl
7 3 (4.348%) PHP
7 3 (4.348%) VB
7 3 (4.348%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.797%) Degree
2 3 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.348%) ISEB
2 3 (4.348%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.449%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (28.99%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (7.246%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle
2 5 (7.246%) HP
3 3 (4.348%) SAP
3 3 (4.348%) JBoss
3 3 (4.348%) Adobe
4 2 (2.899%) Google
4 2 (2.899%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.899%) webMethods
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