The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 210 200 170
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -30
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 7 21 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.134% 0.336% 0.370%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.201% 2.675% 2.366%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 19
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
583 785 803
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.16% 12.54% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 484 724 703
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
South East

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire MSTest Jobs Demand Trend

MSTest
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MSTest across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSTest across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire MSTest Salary Histogram

MSTest
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newbury 0 4 £37,500 -
Reading - 3 £40,000 -
MSTest
South East

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSTest.

1 51 (100.00%) C#
1 51 (100.00%) .NET
1 51 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (98.04%) Scrum
2 50 (98.04%) WinForms
2 50 (98.04%) TDD
2 50 (98.04%) NUnit
2 50 (98.04%) WPF
2 50 (98.04%) Continuous Integration
2 50 (98.04%) Kanban
2 50 (98.04%) Spring.NET
2 50 (98.04%) MVVM
2 50 (98.04%) Rhino Mocks
2 50 (98.04%) Moq
2 50 (98.04%) Castle Windsor
2 50 (98.04%) Ninject
2 50 (98.04%) Dependency Injection
2 50 (98.04%) Inversion of Control
2 50 (98.04%) Unity DI Container
3 49 (96.08%) SQL Server
4 36 (70.59%) MCP
4 36 (70.59%) MCAD
4 36 (70.59%) MCSD
4 36 (70.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (70.59%) MCTS
5 33 (64.71%) ASP.NET
6 32 (62.75%) MVC
6 32 (62.75%) Web Application Development
6 32 (62.75%) Razor View Engine
6 32 (62.75%) ASP.NET MVC

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSTest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (98.04%) WinForms
2 50 (98.04%) WPF
2 50 (98.04%) Spring.NET
2 50 (98.04%) Castle Windsor
2 50 (98.04%) Ninject
2 50 (98.04%) Unity DI Container
3 33 (64.71%) ASP.NET
4 32 (62.75%) Razor View Engine
4 32 (62.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 32 (62.75%) WCF
5 14 (27.45%) Ajax
6 13 (25.49%) CSS
6 13 (25.49%) Web Services
6 13 (25.49%) XML
7 2 (3.922%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (3.922%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.961%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.49%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (96.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.49%) SQL Server 2005
2 13 (25.49%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 50 (98.04%) NUnit
1 50 (98.04%) Rhino Mocks
1 50 (98.04%) Moq
2 1 (1.961%) MSBuild
2 1 (1.961%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 51 (100.00%) Developer
2 32 (62.75%) .NET Developer
3 20 (39.22%) C# Developer
4 19 (37.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (25.49%) .NET Applications Developer
5 13 (25.49%) Web Developer
5 13 (25.49%) Applications Developer
5 13 (25.49%) Web Applications Developer
5 13 (25.49%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (3.922%) Junior .NET Developer
6 2 (3.922%) Graduate Developer
6 2 (3.922%) Junior Developer
6 2 (3.922%) Junior
6 2 (3.922%) Graduate
6 2 (3.922%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 1 (1.961%) C# Programmer
7 1 (1.961%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 50 (98.04%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (3.922%) Tandem
2 2 (3.922%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (98.04%) Scrum
1 50 (98.04%) TDD
1 50 (98.04%) Continuous Integration
1 50 (98.04%) Kanban
1 50 (98.04%) MVVM
1 50 (98.04%) Dependency Injection
2 32 (62.75%) MVC
2 32 (62.75%) Web Application Development
3 18 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (33.33%) OO
5 16 (31.37%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (1.961%) Data Management
6 1 (1.961%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (25.49%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.961%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.961%) C++
3 1 (1.961%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) MCP
1 36 (70.59%) MCAD
1 36 (70.59%) MCSD
1 36 (70.59%) Microsoft Certification
1 36 (70.59%) MCTS
Vendors
1 2 (3.922%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.961%) Oracle
Newbury, Thames Valley
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newbury, Thames Valley
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence with Win32 applications will be...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Technical: The primary development language is C#... Good experience with .Net 3.5. C++ competence with Win32 applications will be a bonus. ASP.Net experience with AJAX will...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + YES
Posted: 8 May 2013