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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 905 1041
Rank change year-on-year +50 +136 -235
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 59 47 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.34% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 107
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £44,500
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 £65,000 £62,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 13,867 38,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.24% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,598 8,468 16,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £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 28 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 28 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 +73 47 £52,500 -8.30% 17
UK excluding London -16 41 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Work from Home +64 20 £57,500 +0.88% 13
London +148 14 £65,000 +4.00% 4
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +19 10 £44,000 -23.48% 6
Midlands -3 10 £44,000 -23.48% 7
Yorkshire - 7 £65,000 -
Scotland - 7 - - 1
South East -3 6 £52,500 -7.89%
South West -35 6 £45,000 -10.00% 3
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 (13.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) Serverless
3 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (52.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.64%) Relational Database
3 10 (16.95%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.69%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (44.07%) NUnit
2 21 (35.59%) Git
3 14 (23.73%) JIRA
4 10 (16.95%) Moq
4 10 (16.95%) Visual Studio
5 8 (13.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (11.86%) Postman
6 7 (11.86%) Selenium
7 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket
7 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (10.17%) JMeter
8 5 (8.47%) HP UFT
8 5 (8.47%) LoadRunner
8 5 (8.47%) SoapUI
8 5 (8.47%) SpecFlow
9 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
9 2 (3.39%) JUnit
9 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
9 2 (3.39%) webpack
10 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (57.63%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) Test Engineer
3 15 (25.42%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (23.73%) Senior
5 13 (22.03%) .NET Developer
6 11 (18.64%) C# Developer
7 8 (13.56%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 8 (13.56%) Senior Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Lead
9 5 (8.47%) Lead Developer
9 5 (8.47%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
9 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (6.78%) C# WPF Developer
10 4 (6.78%) WPF Developer
11 3 (5.08%) Lead .NET Developer
11 3 (5.08%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (66.10%) .NET
2 22 (37.29%) .NET Framework
3 19 (32.20%) Entity Framework
4 18 (30.51%) JSON
4 18 (30.51%) XML
5 16 (27.12%) React
6 15 (25.42%) ASP.NET
7 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (20.34%) .NET Core
8 12 (20.34%) RESTful
9 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
10 10 (16.95%) Blazor
10 10 (16.95%) CSS
11 9 (15.25%) Web Services
12 8 (13.56%) HTML
12 8 (13.56%) LINQ
13 7 (11.86%) jQuery
13 7 (11.86%) Razor View Engine
13 7 (11.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 7 (11.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.17%) IoT
3 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.78%) Social Network
5 1 (1.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) Agile
2 28 (47.46%) DevOps
3 27 (45.76%) Test Automation
4 26 (44.07%) Unit Testing
5 20 (33.90%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (32.20%) MVC
7 18 (30.51%) Scrum
8 16 (27.12%) Design Patterns
8 16 (27.12%) Functional Testing
8 16 (27.12%) Software Testing
9 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
9 14 (23.73%) SOLID
10 12 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (20.34%) Sprint Retrospective
11 11 (18.64%) Code Quality
11 11 (18.64%) Regression Testing
11 11 (18.64%) Scenario Testing
12 10 (16.95%) Security Testing
12 10 (16.95%) TDD
12 10 (16.95%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 44 (74.58%) C#
2 32 (54.24%) SQL
3 24 (40.68%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.86%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.47%) C
6 3 (5.08%) Python
7 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Degree
2 12 (20.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) ISTQB
3 5 (8.47%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Facebook
2 4 (6.78%) Twitter
3 2 (3.39%) Nintex
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Sitecore