The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 215 241 252
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +11
Contract jobs citing MSTest 8 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.103% 0.010% 0.066%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.958% 0.110% 0.648%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
Average daily rate £363 £270 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.25% -28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £270 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £270 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £488 £400 £280
% change year-on-year
+21.87% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
835 906 1080
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.73% 8.909% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 469 447
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £250 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 117
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSTest
England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
East Sussex - 5 £356 -
Surrey +19 2 £388 +43.51%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 14 (82.35%) SQL
1 14 (82.35%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 10 (58.82%) C#
3 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 9 (52.94%) Scrum
4 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
4 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (41.18%) Selenium
5 7 (41.18%) NUnit
5 7 (41.18%) BDD
6 6 (35.29%) Automation Testing
6 6 (35.29%) WatiN
6 6 (35.29%) Subversion
6 6 (35.29%) QA
6 6 (35.29%) WATIR
6 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
6 6 (35.29%) Linux
6 6 (35.29%) Web Services
6 6 (35.29%) MySQL
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (29.41%) SOA
7 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 5 (29.41%) Perl
7 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
8 4 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (23.53%) Microsoft

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (58.82%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 6 (35.29%) Web Services
4 4 (23.53%) XML
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (17.65%) HTML5
5 3 (17.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (17.65%) ADO.NET
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) jQuery
5 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.882%) SOAP
6 1 (5.882%) soapUI
6 1 (5.882%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) ESB
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (5.882%) DB2
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.882%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) NUnit
3 6 (35.29%) WatiN
3 6 (35.29%) Subversion
3 6 (35.29%) WATIR
3 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.76%) JMeter
5 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.882%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.882%) Fiddler
5 1 (5.882%) FitNesse
5 1 (5.882%) JIRA
5 1 (5.882%) MSBuild
5 1 (5.882%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.882%) StyleCop
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
1 1 (5.882%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) QA Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Software Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 7 (41.18%) BDD
5 6 (35.29%) Automation Testing
6 5 (29.41%) SOA
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (17.65%) UML
8 1 (5.882%) MVC
8 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.882%) ETL
8 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
8 1 (5.882%) Security Testing
8 1 (5.882%) Test Management
8 1 (5.882%) Use Case
8 1 (5.882%) ATDD
8 1 (5.882%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
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