The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 100 157 170
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +13
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 66 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.158% 0.264% 0.055%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.38% 1.579% 0.461%
Number of salaries quoted 66 9 2
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
533 570 434
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 17.42% 16.72% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 484 503 388
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSTest across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Nottinghamshire - 39 £37,500 -
Leicestershire 0 17 £40,000 -
Northamptonshire - 8 £35,500 -
Derbyshire - 2 £42,500 -
MSTest
England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 97 (97.00%) C#
3 96 (96.00%) TDD
4 92 (92.00%) NUnit
4 92 (92.00%) Moq
5 83 (83.00%) Windows
5 83 (83.00%) SQL Server
6 81 (81.00%) WPF
7 78 (78.00%) Scrum
8 77 (77.00%) MCTS
8 77 (77.00%) Continuous Integration
8 77 (77.00%) Kanban
8 77 (77.00%) MCP
8 77 (77.00%) MCAD
8 77 (77.00%) MCSD
8 77 (77.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 77 (77.00%) Spring.NET
8 77 (77.00%) Dependency Injection
8 77 (77.00%) Inversion of Control
8 77 (77.00%) MVVM
8 77 (77.00%) Rhino Mocks
8 77 (77.00%) Castle Windsor
8 77 (77.00%) Ninject
8 77 (77.00%) Unity DI Container
9 70 (70.00%) ASP.NET
10 69 (69.00%) MVC
11 64 (64.00%) WinForms
12 54 (54.00%) Razor View Engine
13 53 (53.00%) ASP.NET MVC
14 50 (50.00%) Web Application Development

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 81 (81.00%) WPF
3 77 (77.00%) Unity DI Container
3 77 (77.00%) Spring.NET
3 77 (77.00%) Castle Windsor
3 77 (77.00%) Ninject
4 70 (70.00%) ASP.NET
5 64 (64.00%) WinForms
6 54 (54.00%) Razor View Engine
7 53 (53.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 50 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 50 (50.00%) WCF
9 21 (21.00%) .NET Framework
10 15 (15.00%) ASP
10 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 5 (5.000%) jQuery
12 4 (4.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 4 (4.000%) HTML
12 4 (4.000%) JSON
13 3 (3.000%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 15 (15.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (2.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (83.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.000%) Informix
2 4 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 92 (92.00%) NUnit
1 92 (92.00%) Moq
2 77 (77.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (3.000%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (3.000%) Selenium
3 3 (3.000%) FitNesse
General
1 19 (19.00%) Finance
2 13 (13.00%) Telecoms
2 13 (13.00%) Music
3 1 (1.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (85.00%) Developer
1 85 (85.00%) .NET Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Graduate
2 17 (17.00%) Junior
2 17 (17.00%) Junior Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Graduate Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 13 (13.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (4.000%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (3.000%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (2.000%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (2.000%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (2.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (2.000%) C# Developer
7 1 (1.000%) Analyst
7 1 (1.000%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (1.000%) Programmer
7 1 (1.000%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 77 (77.00%) Inversion of Control
2 17 (17.00%) Tandem
2 17 (17.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 83 (83.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (96.00%) TDD
2 78 (78.00%) Scrum
3 77 (77.00%) Continuous Integration
3 77 (77.00%) Kanban
3 77 (77.00%) Dependency Injection
3 77 (77.00%) MVVM
4 69 (69.00%) MVC
5 50 (50.00%) Web Application Development
6 31 (31.00%) Agile Software Development
7 22 (22.00%) OO
8 18 (18.00%) OOD
9 15 (15.00%) Web Development
10 3 (3.000%) OOP
11 1 (1.000%) E-Commerce
11 1 (1.000%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 97 (97.00%) C#
2 16 (16.00%) VB.NET
3 15 (15.00%) VB
4 13 (13.00%) C++
5 8 (8.000%) SQL
6 2 (2.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 77 (77.00%) MCP
1 77 (77.00%) MCAD
1 77 (77.00%) MCSD
1 77 (77.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 77 (77.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 46 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.000%) Oracle
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
NET Developer (C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .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 + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
NET Developer (C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .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
Nottingham, East Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
My client can provide training in: .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor, TDD, NUnit / MSTest, Mocking, Moq /...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
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: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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: 13 May 2013