The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSTest 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.498% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.878% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
41 41 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 10.20% 9.880% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 25
Average daily rate £325 £325 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £173 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £453 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 5
Average hourly rate £27.63 £27.63 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £28.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £40.00 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSTest
East of England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex MSTest Daily Rate Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) QUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) XAML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) QUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) XAML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Essex
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering first class rich web applications and will be skilled and knowledgeable in HTML 4/...
Connectus
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013