The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSTest 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.399% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £563 - -
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 33 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 11.89% 9.141% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 18
Average daily rate £425 £330 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.78% -22.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £240 £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSTest
Wiltshire

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Swindon MSTest Daily Rate Histogram

MSTest
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) IIS
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) UML
1 7 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 7 (100.00%) ESRI
1 7 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
1 7 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 7 (100.00%) RIA
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
1 7 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
1 7 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 7 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) IIS
1 7 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
2 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Programmer
1 7 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 7 (100.00%) C# Programmer
2 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Programmer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 7 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) UML
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) ESRI