The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSTest 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.108% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £425 £280
% change year-on-year
-10.29% +51.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
75 73 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.108% 6.874% 6.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £287 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
MSTest
Scotland

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh MSTest Jobs Demand Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) Cadis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Cadis