TestNG Job Trends

TestNG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring TestNG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 606 807
Rank change year-on-year -79 +201 +154
Permanent jobs citing TestNG 11 39 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.089% 0.039%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.83% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 23
10th Percentile £63,000 £45,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £77,750 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +17.39%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,125 4,714 8,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 10.75% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 3,089 6,691
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

TestNG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TestNG job vacancy trend in the UK

TestNG
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestNG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestNG

TestNG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TestNG over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TestNG in the UK

TestNG
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TestNG within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -49 11 £70,000 +7.69% 2
UK excluding London -25 9 £65,000 +18.18% 3
South West - 5 £80,000 -
South East -7 2 £65,000 - 1
London -14 2 £110,000 +46.67% 1
East of England - 2 £65,000 -
Work from Home +30 1 £60,000 -14.29% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) CockroachDB
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JUnit
2 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (54.55%) Selenium
4 5 (45.45%) GitLab
4 5 (45.45%) JIRA
5 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
5 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
5 3 (27.27%) Git
5 3 (27.27%) Gradle
5 3 (27.27%) Maven
5 3 (27.27%) Postman
5 3 (27.27%) REST Assured
5 3 (27.27%) SpecFlow
6 2 (18.18%) Checkstyle
6 2 (18.18%) ESLint
6 2 (18.18%) Mockito
6 2 (18.18%) MSTest
6 2 (18.18%) NUnit
6 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
6 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
2 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (36.36%) Playwright
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Spring MVC
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) JWT
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
3 2 (18.18%) pytest
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) API Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) MVC
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 3 (27.27%) Google