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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 68 95 -
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 13 16 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.367% 1.149% -
As % of the Development Applications category 10.24% 5.333% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 0
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
127 300 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 13.35% 21.54% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 109 253 165
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
East of England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Chelmsford - 7 £40,000 -
Basildon -8 3 £47,500 -
MSTest
East of England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 21 (95.45%) C#
1 21 (95.45%) .NET
2 20 (90.91%) TDD
2 20 (90.91%) Rhino Mocks
3 19 (86.36%) WPF
4 17 (77.27%) Silverlight
4 17 (77.27%) Dependency Injection
4 17 (77.27%) Unity DI Container
5 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
5 12 (54.55%) NUnit
5 12 (54.55%) WCF
6 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (50.00%) MCTS
6 11 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
6 11 (50.00%) Moq
6 11 (50.00%) Spring.NET
6 11 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (50.00%) Kanban
6 11 (50.00%) MCP
6 11 (50.00%) MCAD
6 11 (50.00%) MCSD
6 11 (50.00%) Scrum
6 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
6 11 (50.00%) Ninject
6 11 (50.00%) MVVM
7 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
8 9 (40.91%) Web Services
8 9 (40.91%) OOP
8 9 (40.91%) SQL

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 21 (95.45%) .NET
2 19 (86.36%) WPF
3 17 (77.27%) Silverlight
3 17 (77.27%) Unity DI Container
4 12 (54.55%) WCF
5 11 (50.00%) Spring.NET
5 11 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
5 11 (50.00%) Ninject
6 9 (40.91%) Web Services
7 8 (36.36%) .NET Framework
7 8 (36.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET
9 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (13.64%) jQuery
11 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 2 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (9.091%) KnockoutJS
11 2 (9.091%) WinForms
12 1 (4.545%) CSS
12 1 (4.545%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 20 (90.91%) Rhino Mocks
2 12 (54.55%) NUnit
3 11 (50.00%) Moq
4 1 (4.545%) QUnit
4 1 (4.545%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.545%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.545%) Subversion
4 1 (4.545%) Selenium
4 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
4 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
2 15 (68.18%) .NET Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
5 4 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (4.545%) QA Tester
8 1 (4.545%) Software Analyst
8 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce Web Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) TDD
2 17 (77.27%) Dependency Injection
3 11 (50.00%) MVVM
3 11 (50.00%) Kanban
3 11 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (50.00%) Scrum
3 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
5 9 (40.91%) OOP
6 5 (22.73%) MVC
7 4 (18.18%) System Testing
8 2 (9.091%) Web Application Development
8 2 (9.091%) E-Commerce
9 1 (4.545%) OOD
9 1 (4.545%) OO
9 1 (4.545%) Content Management
9 1 (4.545%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) C#
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) T-SQL
3 7 (31.82%) XAML
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) MCP
1 11 (50.00%) MCAD
1 11 (50.00%) MCSD
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (50.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
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