The first table below looks at the demand for TestNG skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TestNG over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TestNG
Rank 116 132 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing TestNG 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.066% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.383% 0.755% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £373 £400
% change year-on-year
-12.75% -6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
261 265 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.93% 8.723% 8.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 137
Average daily rate £325 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.20% +6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -28.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £17.23 £21.82
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £35.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
TestNG
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TestNG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West TestNG Daily Rate Trend

TestNG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Android
3 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Flex
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Flash
3 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe
3 2 (50.00%) TELNET
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) JSF
4 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Finance

TestNG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Flex
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Flash
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) J2SE
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) DHTML
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SNMP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) MyEclipse
4 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Adobe
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