TestNG Contract Job Trends

TestNG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TestNG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 524 574
Rank change year-on-year -43 +50 +192
Contract jobs citing TestNG 15 19 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.053% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.40% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 25
10th Percentile £314 £293 £340
25th Percentile £319 £331 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% - -20.79%
75th Percentile £538 £444 £488
90th Percentile £545 £515 £559
UK excluding London median daily rate £317 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +5.77% -25.00% -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

TestNG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TestNG job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestNG

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestNG over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TestNG in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestNG

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Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestNG within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -39 14 £420 +5.06% 2
London -11 7 £490 +12.06%
Work from Home 0 6 £525 +37.70% 1
UK excluding London -35 6 £317 +5.77% 2
North of England - 3 £316 -
Yorkshire - 3 £316 -
South East -13 2 £550 +83.33%
South West - 1 - - 2

TestNG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 12 (80.00%) JUnit
3 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (46.67%) REST Assured
4 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (40.00%) Git
4 6 (40.00%) JIRA
4 6 (40.00%) Postman
5 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (20.00%) Gatling
6 2 (13.33%) GitLab
6 2 (13.33%) Gradle
6 2 (13.33%) JMeter
6 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
6 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
6 2 (13.33%) Zephyr
7 1 (6.67%) Appium
7 1 (6.67%) Maven
7 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) QA Tester
4 3 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 3 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Developer in Test
5 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (13.33%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) pytest
5 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (80.00%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) Regression Testing
5 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
6 6 (40.00%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) API Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (26.67%) Microservices
8 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
9 3 (20.00%) BDD
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (20.00%) Functional Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (93.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Duck Creek
3 1 (6.67%) Guidewire
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk