MSTest Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 197 210 233
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +23
Contract jobs citing MSTest 6 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.093% 0.089% 0.031%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.750% 1.065% 0.305%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 3
Average daily rate £475 £550 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £338 £280
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 800 657 985
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.357% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 486 739
Average daily rate £405 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSTest
London

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MSTest across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London MSTest Jobs Demand Trend

MSTest
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MSTest across the City of London region.

City of London MSTest Daily Rate Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MSTest also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSTest.

1 12 (92.31%) TDD
2 10 (76.92%) WPF
2 10 (76.92%) .NET
3 9 (69.23%) C#
3 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 9 (69.23%) WCF
3 9 (69.23%) Rhino Mocks
4 8 (61.54%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (46.15%) .NET Framework
5 6 (46.15%) WF
5 6 (46.15%) CQRS
6 5 (38.46%) Front Office
6 5 (38.46%) OO
6 5 (38.46%) Java
7 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
7 4 (30.77%) Windows
7 4 (30.77%) NUnit
8 3 (23.08%) Banking
8 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
8 3 (23.08%) Workflow
8 3 (23.08%) Subversion
8 3 (23.08%) Spring
8 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (23.08%) Silverlight
8 3 (23.08%) Wealth Management
8 3 (23.08%) jQuery
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (23.08%) Investment Management
8 3 (23.08%) TeamCity
8 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MSTest also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSTest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (76.92%) WPF
1 10 (76.92%) .NET
2 9 (69.23%) WCF
3 6 (46.15%) .NET Framework
3 6 (46.15%) WF
4 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
5 3 (23.08%) Spring
5 3 (23.08%) Silverlight
5 3 (23.08%) jQuery
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (23.08%) J2EE
5 3 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (15.38%) StructureMap
6 2 (15.38%) NEsper
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) Ajax
7 1 (7.692%) NHibernate
7 1 (7.692%) LINQ
7 1 (7.692%) Spring.NET
7 1 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (30.77%) NUnit
3 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 3 (23.08%) TeamCity
3 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
3 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
3 3 (23.08%) MSBuild
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (7.692%) Moq
5 1 (7.692%) QUnit
5 1 (7.692%) Jasmine
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Front Office
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 9 (69.23%) C# Developer
3 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) WPF Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Applications Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (46.15%) CQRS
4 5 (38.46%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
5 3 (23.08%) Workflow
5 3 (23.08%) Wealth Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Investment Management
5 3 (23.08%) Code Coverage
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (15.38%) ETRM
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
7 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
7 1 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (7.692%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) VBA
4 1 (7.692%) VB6
4 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.692%) VB
4 1 (7.692%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Charles River
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle
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