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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 77 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 7 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.654% 0.441% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.070% 3.226% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 0
Average salary £27,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
172 186 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 16.06% 13.66% 6.565%
Number of salaries quoted 114 133 84
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
MSTest
Scotland

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

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

Edinburgh MSTest Salary Histogram

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) MVC
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (90.00%) WCF
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) Unit Testing
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (90.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (90.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (70.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) CSS3
3 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 7 (70.00%) Ajax
3 7 (70.00%) Degree
4 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
5 5 (50.00%) Web 2.0
6 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
7 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (20.00%) B2B
8 2 (20.00%) Windows
8 2 (20.00%) Python
8 2 (20.00%) WinForms

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (90.00%) WCF
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (90.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (70.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 7 (70.00%) CSS3
3 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 7 (70.00%) Ajax
4 2 (20.00%) WinForms
4 2 (20.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (20.00%) WPF
4 2 (20.00%) LINQ
4 2 (20.00%) Ninject
4 2 (20.00%) StructureMap
4 2 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (20.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (20.00%) Mercurial
3 2 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (20.00%) Moq
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Junior
3 6 (60.00%) Junior Developer
4 5 (50.00%) C# Developer
4 5 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Mid-Level C# Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Junior C# .NET Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Junior C# Developer
6 3 (30.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) MVC
1 9 (90.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft