The first table below looks at the demand for TestNG skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TestNG over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TestNG
Rank 356 379 403
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +24
Contract jobs citing TestNG 21 36 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.097% 0.134% 0.126%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.802% 1.398% 1.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 16
Average daily rate £400 £425 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £349 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
-21.21% +3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2619 2575 3549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.09% 9.559% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1928 1748 2418
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 31
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +20.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
TestNG
England

TestNG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +6 3 £350 +12.00%
Hounslow - 1 £375 -
TestNG
England

TestNG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 37 (82.22%) Java
2 35 (77.78%) Selenium
3 32 (71.11%) JUnit
4 30 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
5 27 (60.00%) BDD
6 22 (48.89%) WebDriver
7 21 (46.67%) QA
8 19 (42.22%) TDD
9 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 14 (31.11%) Cucumber
10 14 (31.11%) E-Commerce
10 14 (31.11%) OO
10 14 (31.11%) Automated Testing
11 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
12 12 (26.67%) Maven
13 11 (24.44%) Spring
14 10 (22.22%) Hibernate
14 10 (22.22%) Scrum
15 8 (17.78%) FitNesse
15 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (17.78%) SQL
15 8 (17.78%) Hudson
16 7 (15.56%) Test Strategy
16 7 (15.56%) RESTful
16 7 (15.56%) C#
16 7 (15.56%) XML
16 7 (15.56%) Finance
16 7 (15.56%) Test Scripting
17 6 (13.33%) Java EE
17 6 (13.33%) Web Services

TestNG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 11 (24.44%) Spring
2 10 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 7 (15.56%) RESTful
3 7 (15.56%) XML
4 6 (13.33%) Java EE
4 6 (13.33%) Web Services
4 6 (13.33%) J2EE
5 5 (11.11%) soapUI
5 5 (11.11%) SOAP
6 3 (6.667%) REST
6 3 (6.667%) EJB
6 3 (6.667%) XML Schema
6 3 (6.667%) EJB 3.0
7 2 (4.444%) WCF
7 2 (4.444%) WebSphere
7 2 (4.444%) JSON
7 2 (4.444%) Ehcache
8 1 (2.222%) HTML5
8 1 (2.222%) JFace
8 1 (2.222%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.667%) Apache
2 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (4.444%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.222%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.667%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.444%) BusinessObjects XI
2 2 (4.444%) DB2
2 2 (4.444%) MySQL
2 2 (4.444%) Redis
2 2 (4.444%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (4.444%) Hazelcast
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.222%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.222%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.222%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.222%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (77.78%) Selenium
2 32 (71.11%) JUnit
3 22 (48.89%) WebDriver
4 14 (31.11%) Cucumber
5 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
6 12 (26.67%) Maven
7 8 (17.78%) FitNesse
7 8 (17.78%) Hudson
8 4 (8.889%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (8.889%) WATIR
8 4 (8.889%) Subversion
8 4 (8.889%) Checkstyle
8 4 (8.889%) TeamCity
8 4 (8.889%) FindBugs
9 3 (6.667%) SpecFlow
9 3 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (6.667%) JBehave
9 3 (6.667%) HttpUnit
10 2 (4.444%) Firebug
10 2 (4.444%) Fiddler
General
1 7 (15.56%) Finance
2 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.667%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.667%) Electronics
3 3 (6.667%) Marketing
4 1 (2.222%) Advertising
4 1 (2.222%) Publishing
4 1 (2.222%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Developer
2 13 (28.89%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.56%) Tester
3 7 (15.56%) QA Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) QA Leader
6 4 (8.889%) Technical Leader
6 4 (8.889%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.667%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.667%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.667%) Architect
8 2 (4.444%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.444%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.444%) QA Tester
8 2 (4.444%) Technical Tester
8 2 (4.444%) Agile Java Developer
9 1 (2.222%) Agile Test Analyst
9 1 (2.222%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) Open Source
1 3 (6.667%) DTV
1 3 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.444%) W3C
3 1 (2.222%) New Media
3 1 (2.222%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (2.222%) SWIFT
3 1 (2.222%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.222%) Spread Betting
3 1 (2.222%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.889%) Windows
2 3 (6.667%) Linux
3 2 (4.444%) UNIX
4 1 (2.222%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (60.00%) BDD
3 19 (42.22%) TDD
4 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 14 (31.11%) E-Commerce
5 14 (31.11%) OO
5 14 (31.11%) Automated Testing
6 10 (22.22%) Scrum
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (15.56%) Test Strategy
8 7 (15.56%) Test Scripting
9 6 (13.33%) Automation Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (11.11%) Multithreading
11 4 (8.889%) Manual Testing
11 4 (8.889%) Kanban
11 4 (8.889%) Performance Testing
11 4 (8.889%) Software Engineering
11 4 (8.889%) Test Management
12 3 (6.667%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) Java
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) C#
4 4 (8.889%) Ruby
4 4 (8.889%) C
5 3 (6.667%) Python
5 3 (6.667%) VB
5 3 (6.667%) Perl
5 3 (6.667%) PHP
6 1 (2.222%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.889%) Degree
2 3 (6.667%) ISEB
2 3 (6.667%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (46.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) HP
2 3 (6.667%) SAP
3 2 (4.444%) Microsoft
London
Functional Automation Tester - SCRUM - SQL - Selenium2 - JAVA - London - Our client a leading global Broadcasting organisation are looking for a Automation Development Tester (functional) to join large programme of...
Reed Technology
Salary: £300 - £365 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Support the creation scripts to be run under Continuous Integration using Hudson, Maven and Subversion... -Familiar of testing frameworks using Java and Groovy. -Competent in TESTNG. -Good SQL...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £365 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013