The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 115 110 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 12 15 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.638% 0.758% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.000% 3.876% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 0
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
300 387 331
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 15.94% 19.56% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 273 347 290
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
Cambridgeshire

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 32 (100.00%) C#
1 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 31 (96.88%) NUnit
2 31 (96.88%) .NET
2 31 (96.88%) Rhino Mocks
2 31 (96.88%) Moq
3 30 (93.75%) Dependency Injection
3 30 (93.75%) Inversion of Control
3 30 (93.75%) WPF
3 30 (93.75%) Continuous Integration
3 30 (93.75%) Kanban
3 30 (93.75%) Spring.NET
3 30 (93.75%) Castle Windsor
3 30 (93.75%) Ninject
3 30 (93.75%) MVVM
3 30 (93.75%) Unity DI Container
3 30 (93.75%) MCP
3 30 (93.75%) MCAD
3 30 (93.75%) MCSD
3 30 (93.75%) Windows
3 30 (93.75%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (93.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (93.75%) TDD
3 30 (93.75%) MCTS
3 30 (93.75%) Scrum
3 30 (93.75%) WinForms
4 2 (6.250%) SQL
4 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.125%) WebDriver

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 31 (96.88%) .NET
2 30 (93.75%) WPF
2 30 (93.75%) Spring.NET
2 30 (93.75%) Castle Windsor
2 30 (93.75%) Ninject
2 30 (93.75%) WinForms
2 30 (93.75%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (3.125%) WCF
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (3.125%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.125%) Web Services
3 1 (3.125%) Middleware
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) DB2
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (3.125%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (96.88%) NUnit
1 31 (96.88%) Rhino Mocks
1 31 (96.88%) Moq
2 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.125%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.125%) dotTrace
3 1 (3.125%) ReSharper
3 1 (3.125%) Selenium
3 1 (3.125%) MbUnit
3 1 (3.125%) AQtime
3 1 (3.125%) xUnit.net
3 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 32 (100.00%) Developer
2 30 (93.75%) C# Developer
2 30 (93.75%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (3.125%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.125%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (3.125%) Applications Developer
3 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (93.75%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 30 (93.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Scrum
1 30 (93.75%) TDD
1 30 (93.75%) Continuous Integration
1 30 (93.75%) Kanban
1 30 (93.75%) Dependency Injection
1 30 (93.75%) MVVM
1 30 (93.75%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (3.125%) MVC
2 1 (3.125%) OO
2 1 (3.125%) Software Testing
2 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
2 1 (3.125%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (6.250%) SQL
3 1 (3.125%) C++/CLI
3 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (93.75%) MCP
1 30 (93.75%) MCAD
1 30 (93.75%) MCSD
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 30 (93.75%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle
Cambridge, East Anglia
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: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Healthcare
Posted: 13 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Practical knowledge of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns is a must.Applicants must have at least 4 years of commercial software development or equivalent open source...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
2+ years recent experience of C# programming - 1+ years recent experience of software testing - Testing and/or developing applications based on Microsoft technologies - Unit testing libraries (for example,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
NUnit, MbUnit, MSTest or xUnit.net) - Strong engineering, scienti?c or mathematical background - ASP.NET Desirable. - ASP.NET MVC 2/3 (including MVC 3 Razor view engine) - Mocking...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: From £32,000 to £45,000 per annum Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013