MSTest Jobs in the East of England

The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 24 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 of England region.

Location

3 months to
24 May 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft MSTest

Rank

175

207

277

Rank change year-on-year

+32

+70

Permanent jobs citing MSTest

As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England

1.077%

0.690%

0.010%

As % of the Development Applications category

7.036%

3.681%

0.066%

Number of salaries quoted

Average salary

£37,500

£40,000

£21,500

Average salary % change year-on-year

-6.25%

+86.04%

UK excluding London average salary

£37,500

£40,000

£32,500

% change year-on-year

-6.25%

+23.07%

Search 11 MSTest jobs in the East of England

All Development Applications
East of England

Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category

1265

1630

1510

As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England

15.31%

18.74%

15.83%

Number of salaries quoted

1120

1365

1314

Average salary

£40,000

£38,000

Average salary % change year-on-year

+5.26%

90% offered a salary of more than

£29,300

£30,000

£29,500

10% offered a salary of more than

£55,000

£50,000

£55,000

UK excluding London average salary

£38,500

£38,000

£37,500

% change year-on-year

+1.31%

+1.33%

MSTest
England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MSTest
Salary Trend

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

MSTest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSTest across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire	+30	33	£34,000	-9.33%
Bedfordshire	-2	24	£42,500	+6.25%
Essex	+14	15	£45,000	+9.09%
Hertfordshire	+11	12	£35,000	-30.00%
Norfolk	-2	5	£27,500	-19.70%
MSTest England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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	125 (89.29%)	C#
2	106 (75.71%)	.NET
3	101 (72.14%)	SQL Server
4	99 (70.71%)	WPF
5	89 (63.57%)	NUnit
6	82 (58.57%)	TDD
6	82 (58.57%)	WinForms
7	78 (55.71%)	Scrum
8	77 (55.00%)	Rhino Mocks
9	76 (54.29%)	Windows
10	75 (53.57%)	Dependency Injection
11	73 (52.14%)	Unity DI Container
12	71 (50.71%)	SQL
13	69 (49.29%)	Kanban
14	67 (47.86%)	Continuous Integration

15	66 (47.14%)	Moq
16	65 (46.43%)	Inversion of Control
16	65 (46.43%)	Spring.NET
16	65 (46.43%)	MCTS
16	65 (46.43%)	MCP
16	65 (46.43%)	MCAD
16	65 (46.43%)	MCSD
16	65 (46.43%)	Microsoft Certification
16	65 (46.43%)	MVVM
16	65 (46.43%)	Castle Windsor
16	65 (46.43%)	Ninject
17	63 (45.00%)	Microsoft
18	59 (42.14%)	MVC
19	55 (39.29%)	WCF
20	43 (30.71%)	Silverlight

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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	106 (75.71%)	.NET
2	99 (70.71%)	WPF
3	82 (58.57%)	WinForms
4	73 (52.14%)	Unity DI Container
5	65 (46.43%)	Spring.NET
5	65 (46.43%)	Castle Windsor
5	65 (46.43%)	Ninject
6	55 (39.29%)	WCF
7	43 (30.71%)	Silverlight
7	43 (30.71%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	43 (30.71%)	ASP.NET
8	33 (23.57%)	XML
9	31 (22.14%)	Web Services
9	31 (22.14%)	Razor View Engine
9	31 (22.14%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
10	30 (21.43%)	HTML
11	20 (14.29%)	CSS
12	19 (13.57%)	WF
13	13 (9.286%)	ASP.NET MVC 3
14	12 (8.571%)	ADO.NET Entity Framework

Application Platforms
1	1 (0.714%)	BizTalk Server

Applications
1	18 (12.86%)	MS Excel

Business Applications
1	4 (2.857%)	Dynamics CRM

Communications & Networking
1	4 (2.857%)	Internet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	101 (72.14%)	SQL Server
2	19 (13.57%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
2	19 (13.57%)	Crystal Reports
3	15 (10.71%)	DB2
3	15 (10.71%)	MySQL
4	6 (4.286%)	Oracle Reports
4	6 (4.286%)	RDBMS
5	4 (2.857%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	4 (2.857%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	1 (0.714%)	Business Intelligence Development Studio
6	1 (0.714%)	Oracle 8/8i
6	1 (0.714%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	89 (63.57%)	NUnit
2	77 (55.00%)	Rhino Mocks
3	66 (47.14%)	Moq
4	38 (27.14%)	Team Foundation Server
5	20 (14.29%)	Visual Studio
5	20 (14.29%)	Selenium
6	19 (13.57%)	WebDriver
7	17 (12.14%)	Visual Studio Team System
8	8 (5.714%)	PowerBuilder
9	7 (5.000%)	Oracle Forms
10	4 (2.857%)	JIRA
11	3 (2.143%)	CruiseControl
12	2 (1.429%)	WatiN
12	2 (1.429%)	MSBuild
13	1 (0.714%)	xUnit.net
13	1 (0.714%)	QUnit
13	1 (0.714%)	Jasmine
13	1 (0.714%)	AQtime
13	1 (0.714%)	MbUnit
13	1 (0.714%)	dotTrace

General
1	19 (13.57%)	Finance
2	1 (0.714%)	Telecoms
2	1 (0.714%)	Retail Banking
2	1 (0.714%)	Banking
2	1 (0.714%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	118 (84.29%)	Developer
2	48 (34.29%)	C# Developer
3	46 (32.86%)	C# .NET Developer
4	45 (32.14%)	.NET Developer
5	23 (16.43%)	Software Developer
6	15 (10.71%)	Tester
7	14 (10.00%)	Software Tester
8	12 (8.571%)	Senior Developer
9	9 (6.429%)	Analyst
10	8 (5.714%)	Senior C# Developer
11	6 (4.286%)	Technical Analyst
12	5 (3.571%)	Team Leader
12	5 (3.571%)	Development Team Leader
12	5 (3.571%)	.NET Team Leader
13	4 (2.857%)	Web Team Leader
13	4 (2.857%)	Developer Analyst
14	2 (1.429%)	Senior .NET Developer
14	2 (1.429%)	Senior Analyst Developer
14	2 (1.429%)	Junior C# Developer
14	2 (1.429%)	Junior

Miscellaneous
1	65 (46.43%)	Inversion of Control
2	19 (13.57%)	Mathematics
3	9 (6.429%)	Enterprise Software
4	4 (2.857%)	Wiki
5	1 (0.714%)	Data Protection Act

Operating Systems
1	76 (54.29%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	82 (58.57%)	TDD
2	78 (55.71%)	Scrum
3	75 (53.57%)	Dependency Injection
4	69 (49.29%)	Kanban
5	67 (47.86%)	Continuous Integration
6	65 (46.43%)	MVVM
7	59 (42.14%)	MVC
8	31 (22.14%)	Business Intelligence
8	31 (22.14%)	Agile Software Development
9	29 (20.71%)	Web Application Development
10	19 (13.57%)	Web Testing
10	19 (13.57%)	System Testing
10	19 (13.57%)	Software Testing
11	17 (12.14%)	Unit Testing
12	14 (10.00%)	Regression Testing
12	14 (10.00%)	Functional Testing
13	12 (8.571%)	Project Management
14	11 (7.857%)	OOP
15	4 (2.857%)	SOA
15	4 (2.857%)	CRM

Programming Languages
1	125 (89.29%)	C#
2	71 (50.71%)	SQL
3	30 (21.43%)	T-SQL
4	18 (12.86%)	JavaScript
5	9 (6.429%)	VB
5	9 (6.429%)	XAML
6	5 (3.571%)	VB.NET
7	4 (2.857%)	VB6
7	4 (2.857%)	VBScript
7	4 (2.857%)	PL/SQL
8	1 (0.714%)	C++
8	1 (0.714%)	C++/CLI

Qualifications
1	65 (46.43%)	MCTS
1	65 (46.43%)	MCP
1	65 (46.43%)	MCAD
1	65 (46.43%)	MCSD
1	65 (46.43%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (24.29%)	QA

Vendors
1	63 (45.00%)	Microsoft
2	28 (20.00%)	Oracle
3	4 (2.857%)	Telerik