MSTest Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 471 527 495
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -32
Contract jobs citing MSTest 42 32 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.101% 0.060% 0.135%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.909% 0.643% 1.265%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 49
Average daily rate £438 £550 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.45% +57.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £280
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 4623 4974 6010
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.12% 9.325% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2946 3009 3467
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 205 309
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England MSTest Daily Rate Trend

MSTest
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MSTest across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England MSTest Daily Rate Histogram

MSTest
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +36 23 £423 -23.18%
South East +24 10 £363 +34.25%
South West - 6 £600 -
East of England - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 77 (79.38%) C#
2 69 (71.13%) .NET
3 50 (51.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 49 (50.52%) NUnit
5 47 (48.45%) SQL
6 46 (47.42%) TDD
7 41 (42.27%) SQL Server
8 37 (38.14%) .NET Framework
8 37 (38.14%) Unit Testing
9 35 (36.08%) WCF
10 34 (35.05%) Agile Software Development
10 34 (35.05%) ASP.NET
11 30 (30.93%) IIS
12 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
12 28 (28.87%) UML
13 27 (27.84%) Visual Studio
13 27 (27.84%) Oracle
13 27 (27.84%) Subversion
14 25 (25.77%) Windows
14 25 (25.77%) Rhino Mocks
14 25 (25.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 23 (23.71%) WPF
15 23 (23.71%) SQL Server 2008
15 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
15 23 (23.71%) XML
15 23 (23.71%) Finance
16 21 (21.65%) SharePoint
17 20 (20.62%) Web Services
17 20 (20.62%) HTML
17 20 (20.62%) Java

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 69 (71.13%) .NET
2 37 (38.14%) .NET Framework
3 35 (36.08%) WCF
4 34 (35.05%) ASP.NET
5 25 (25.77%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 23 (23.71%) WPF
6 23 (23.71%) XML
7 20 (20.62%) Web Services
7 20 (20.62%) HTML
8 17 (17.53%) ASP
9 15 (15.46%) Silverlight
10 12 (12.37%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (11.34%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 11 (11.34%) WF
11 11 (11.34%) jQuery
12 10 (10.31%) CSS
13 8 (8.247%) Unity DI Container
13 8 (8.247%) NHibernate
14 7 (7.216%) SOAP
15 6 (6.186%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 30 (30.93%) IIS
2 21 (21.65%) SharePoint
3 11 (11.34%) OpenROAD
4 8 (8.247%) ArcGIS
5 5 (5.155%) ESB
6 4 (4.124%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.093%) Windows Azure
7 3 (3.093%) Sitefinity
7 3 (3.093%) CMS
7 3 (3.093%) MSMQ
8 2 (2.062%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (1.031%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (3.093%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.062%) HTTP
2 1 (1.031%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (42.27%) SQL Server
2 23 (23.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (15.46%) Ingres
4 7 (7.216%) MySQL
4 7 (7.216%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.186%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (3.093%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (2.062%) Data Mart
7 2 (2.062%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.031%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 1 (1.031%) DB2
8 1 (1.031%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 50 (51.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 49 (50.52%) NUnit
3 27 (27.84%) Visual Studio
3 27 (27.84%) Subversion
4 25 (25.77%) Rhino Mocks
5 20 (20.62%) TeamCity
6 16 (16.49%) Jenkins
7 15 (15.46%) Moq
8 14 (14.43%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 14 (14.43%) CruiseControl
9 12 (12.37%) Selenium
10 7 (7.216%) MSBuild
10 7 (7.216%) MbUnit
11 6 (6.186%) WatiN
11 6 (6.186%) WATIR
12 4 (4.124%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
12 4 (4.124%) xUnit.net
12 4 (4.124%) Visual Studio Team System
13 3 (3.093%) SpecFlow
13 3 (3.093%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (23.71%) Finance
2 7 (7.216%) Front Office
3 4 (4.124%) Banking
3 4 (4.124%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.093%) Marketing
5 1 (1.031%) Back Office
5 1 (1.031%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.031%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.031%) Billing
Job Titles
1 70 (72.16%) Developer
2 51 (52.58%) C# Developer
3 36 (37.11%) .NET Developer
4 35 (36.08%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (16.49%) Analyst
6 13 (13.40%) Senior Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Software Developer
8 10 (10.31%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (8.247%) Software Engineer
9 8 (8.247%) Test Analyst
9 8 (8.247%) Programmer
9 8 (8.247%) Software Programmer
10 7 (7.216%) C# Programmer
11 6 (6.186%) Senior Analyst Developer
11 6 (6.186%) Analyst Developer
11 6 (6.186%) ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (6.186%) QA Engineer
11 6 (6.186%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (5.155%) .NET Programmer
12 5 (5.155%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Client/Server
2 8 (8.247%) RIA
3 4 (4.124%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (4.124%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.031%) Derivative
4 1 (1.031%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.031%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.031%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.031%) Open Source
4 1 (1.031%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.031%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.031%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.031%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.77%) Windows
2 16 (16.49%) UNIX
3 8 (8.247%) Windows 7
4 7 (7.216%) Linux
5 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) TDD
2 37 (38.14%) Unit Testing
3 34 (35.05%) Agile Software Development
4 28 (28.87%) UML
5 17 (17.53%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (15.46%) Scrum
7 13 (13.40%) ITIL
8 12 (12.37%) OO
8 12 (12.37%) Service Delivery
8 12 (12.37%) CQRS
9 11 (11.34%) BDD
10 10 (10.31%) SOA
10 10 (10.31%) MVC
10 10 (10.31%) Dependency Injection
10 10 (10.31%) Automation Testing
11 9 (9.278%) Code Coverage
12 8 (8.247%) Automated Testing
12 8 (8.247%) ITSM
12 8 (8.247%) Service Management
12 8 (8.247%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (79.38%) C#
2 47 (48.45%) SQL
3 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
4 20 (20.62%) Java
5 17 (17.53%) VB
6 15 (15.46%) VB.NET
6 15 (15.46%) C++
7 5 (5.155%) Perl
7 5 (5.155%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.124%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.093%) Groovy
10 2 (2.062%) VBA
10 2 (2.062%) VB6
10 2 (2.062%) XAML
11 1 (1.031%) C
11 1 (1.031%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) ISEB
3 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 9 (9.278%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.247%) MCP
5 8 (8.247%) MCTS
5 8 (8.247%) MCPD
6 5 (5.155%) Degree
7 2 (2.062%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.062%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.031%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.031%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.031%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.247%) QA
2 1 (1.031%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.031%) TickIT
2 1 (1.031%) ISO 9000
Systems Management
1 9 (9.278%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Oracle
2 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.247%) ESRI
4 4 (4.124%) Charles River
5 1 (1.031%) HP
5 1 (1.031%) JBoss
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