TestNG Contract Job Trends in the South East

TestNG
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring TestNG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 165 201
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 +39
Contract jobs citing TestNG 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.027% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.42% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -25.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £385 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -3.75% -5.88% -20.93%

All Development Application Skills
South East

TestNG falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 473 478 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.69% 12.96% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 286 417
10th Percentile £245 £330 £377
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 27
10th Percentile £43.13 £51.25 £52.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.62% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TestNG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

TestNG job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TestNG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TestNG

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TestNG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TestNG

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestNG within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire - 2 £550 - 1
TestNG
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker