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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.029% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 6.329% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
79 71 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 16.26% 12.93% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 62 68 56
Average salary £33,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.07% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
MSTest
North West

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Lancaster - 2 £42,500 -
Preston - 2 £32,500 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
MSTest
North West

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) NUnit
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (77.78%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) MCP
3 6 (66.67%) MCAD
3 6 (66.67%) MCSD
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
3 6 (66.67%) Inversion of Control
3 6 (66.67%) MCTS
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (66.67%) Kanban
3 6 (66.67%) Spring.NET
3 6 (66.67%) WPF
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) WinForms
3 6 (66.67%) MVVM
3 6 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 6 (66.67%) Moq
3 6 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
3 6 (66.67%) Ninject
3 6 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
3 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (66.67%) Spring.NET
2 6 (66.67%) WPF
2 6 (66.67%) WinForms
2 6 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
2 6 (66.67%) Ninject
2 6 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 6 (66.67%) Unity DI Container
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) NUnit
2 6 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 6 (66.67%) Moq
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (66.67%) Kanban
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 6 (66.67%) MVVM
2 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) C
3 2 (22.22%) VB
3 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) MCP
1 6 (66.67%) MCAD
1 6 (66.67%) MCSD
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (66.67%) MCTS