Microsoft MSTest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MSTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSTest over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 905 1049
Rank change year-on-year +68 +144 -236
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 58 47 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 103
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £44,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.58% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,500 £63,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +27.78%

All Development Application Skills
UK

MSTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 14,072 37,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 14.29% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,632 8,593 15,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSTest.

Salary trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSTest over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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 +96 46 £52,500 -8.30% 19
UK excluding London +13 40 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Work from Home +60 21 £62,500 +9.65% 14
London +121 14 £75,000 +20.00% 6
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +17 10 £44,000 -23.48% 6
Midlands -7 10 £44,000 -23.48% 7
Yorkshire - 7 £65,000 -
Scotland - 7 - -
South West -24 6 £45,000 -10.00% 2
South East +4 5 £52,500 -7.89% 1
North West - 4 £50,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (13.79%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Serverless
3 10 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (48.28%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.24%) DynamoDB
2 10 (17.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (48.28%) NUnit
2 20 (34.48%) Git
3 14 (24.14%) JIRA
4 9 (15.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (12.07%) Moq
5 7 (12.07%) Postman
5 7 (12.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (10.34%) Bitbucket
6 6 (10.34%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.34%) JMeter
6 6 (10.34%) Selenium
7 5 (8.62%) HP UFT
7 5 (8.62%) LoadRunner
7 5 (8.62%) SoapUI
7 5 (8.62%) SpecFlow
8 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
8 2 (3.45%) JUnit
8 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
8 2 (3.45%) webpack
9 1 (1.72%) TestComplete
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.72%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (56.90%) Developer
2 17 (29.31%) Full Stack Developer
2 17 (29.31%) Test Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) .NET Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Senior
5 10 (17.24%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 9 (15.52%) C# Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Lead
7 6 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Software Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (6.90%) C# WPF Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Lead .NET Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Lead Full Stack Developer
9 4 (6.90%) WPF Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (65.52%) .NET
2 20 (34.48%) .NET Framework
3 17 (29.31%) Entity Framework
3 17 (29.31%) React
4 16 (27.59%) JSON
4 16 (27.59%) XML
5 13 (22.41%) ASP.NET
6 12 (20.69%) AngularJS
7 11 (18.97%) .NET Core
7 11 (18.97%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (17.24%) Blazor
9 9 (15.52%) RESTful
9 9 (15.52%) Vue
10 8 (13.79%) CSS
11 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (12.07%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (10.34%) HTML
12 6 (10.34%) REST
12 6 (10.34%) Web Services
13 5 (8.62%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.34%) IoT
3 5 (8.62%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.90%) Social Network
5 1 (1.72%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Agile
2 28 (48.28%) DevOps
3 26 (44.83%) Test Automation
4 23 (39.66%) Unit Testing
5 22 (37.93%) Full Stack Development
6 18 (31.03%) Scrum
7 16 (27.59%) Functional Testing
7 16 (27.59%) MVC
7 16 (27.59%) Software Testing
8 13 (22.41%) Design Patterns
9 12 (20.69%) Code Quality
9 12 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (20.69%) Sprint Retrospective
10 11 (18.97%) Computer Science
10 11 (18.97%) Regression Testing
10 11 (18.97%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (18.97%) SOLID
11 10 (17.24%) SDLC
11 10 (17.24%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (17.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (74.14%) C#
2 33 (56.90%) SQL
3 23 (39.66%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.07%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.62%) C
6 3 (5.17%) Python
7 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 10 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.62%) ISTQB
3 5 (8.62%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Facebook
2 4 (6.90%) Twitter
3 2 (3.45%) Nintex
4 1 (1.72%) Google