The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 108 142 -
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 32 13 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.302% 0.451% -
As % of the Development Applications category 7.323% 2.347% -
Number of salaries quoted 32 13 0
Average salary £34,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Development Applications
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
437 554 478
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.78% 19.24% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 407 483 415
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,000 £30,350
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £49,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
MSTest
East of England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire MSTest Salary Trend

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +7 13 £37,500 - 4
MSTest
East of England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 45 (81.82%) C#
1 45 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 35 (63.64%) Windows
3 30 (54.55%) SQL
4 29 (52.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 28 (50.91%) QA
6 27 (49.09%) NUnit
6 27 (49.09%) .NET
7 26 (47.27%) Scrum
7 26 (47.27%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (47.27%) TDD
7 26 (47.27%) Rhino Mocks
7 26 (47.27%) Moq
8 25 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
8 25 (45.45%) Ninject
8 25 (45.45%) MVVM
8 25 (45.45%) Unity DI Container
8 25 (45.45%) MCTS
8 25 (45.45%) Kanban
8 25 (45.45%) Spring.NET
8 25 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
8 25 (45.45%) Inversion of Control
8 25 (45.45%) WPF
8 25 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (45.45%) MCP
8 25 (45.45%) MCAD
8 25 (45.45%) MCSD
8 25 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (45.45%) WinForms
9 20 (36.36%) Microsoft

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 27 (49.09%) .NET
2 25 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
2 25 (45.45%) Ninject
2 25 (45.45%) Unity DI Container
2 25 (45.45%) Spring.NET
2 25 (45.45%) WPF
2 25 (45.45%) WinForms
3 10 (18.18%) HTML
3 10 (18.18%) XML
4 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (3.636%) WCF
4 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.636%) Web Services
5 1 (1.818%) CSS
5 1 (1.818%) Middleware
5 1 (1.818%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.818%) HTML5
5 1 (1.818%) jQuery
5 1 (1.818%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.818%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Applications
1 1 (1.818%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.00%) MySQL
2 11 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (52.73%) Team Foundation Server
2 27 (49.09%) NUnit
3 26 (47.27%) Rhino Mocks
3 26 (47.27%) Moq
4 18 (32.73%) WebDriver
4 18 (32.73%) Selenium
5 11 (20.00%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.818%) JIRA
6 1 (1.818%) ReSharper
6 1 (1.818%) dotTrace
6 1 (1.818%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.818%) xUnit.net
6 1 (1.818%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.818%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.818%) MbUnit
6 1 (1.818%) AQtime
General
1 1 (1.818%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (80.00%) Developer
2 25 (45.45%) C# .NET Developer
2 25 (45.45%) C# Developer
3 18 (32.73%) Software Developer
4 10 (18.18%) Tester
4 10 (18.18%) Software Tester
5 1 (1.818%) Applications Developer
5 1 (1.818%) Senior Developer
5 1 (1.818%) Software Engineer
5 1 (1.818%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (1.818%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (45.45%) Inversion of Control
2 18 (32.73%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 35 (63.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Scrum
1 26 (47.27%) Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) TDD
2 25 (45.45%) MVVM
2 25 (45.45%) Kanban
2 25 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
2 25 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (32.73%) Web Testing
3 18 (32.73%) Software Testing
4 10 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 10 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (18.18%) System Testing
4 10 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 2 (3.636%) MVC
6 1 (1.818%) OO
6 1 (1.818%) OOD
6 1 (1.818%) ETL
6 1 (1.818%) Programme Management
6 1 (1.818%) Web Development
6 1 (1.818%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (81.82%) C#
2 30 (54.55%) SQL
3 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.818%) C++
3 1 (1.818%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) MCTS
1 25 (45.45%) MCP
1 25 (45.45%) MCAD
1 25 (45.45%) MCSD
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (50.91%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) Oracle
3 1 (1.818%) Atlassian
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: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
An software house who specialise in education based software are looking to hire an experienced .Net Developer with strong skills in C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server to...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 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: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
NET MVC and SQL Server in an agile (Scrum) development environment... Javascript Frameworks like eg. AngularJS, Knockout, RequireJS*Javascript (Object Oriented), jQuery and jQuery UI*User Experience competence...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013