The first table below looks at the demand for TestNG skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing TestNG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
101 113 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.83% 8.746% 8.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 58 42
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+237.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
TestNG
North West

TestNG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester TestNG Daily Rate Trend

TestNG
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) Tapestry
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Wicket
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE 5
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) Guice
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

TestNG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) Tapestry
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Wicket
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE 5
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) Guice
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle