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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank - 123 104
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 0 6 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.286% 0.713%
As % of the Development Applications category - 1.531% 5.058%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 13
Average salary - £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
430 392 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 16.36% 18.71% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 337 350 226
Average salary £35,000 £37,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.40% +8.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
West Yorkshire

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) NUnit
2 16 (94.12%) C#
3 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 9 (52.94%) OO
3 9 (52.94%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
4 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
4 8 (47.06%) XML
4 8 (47.06%) C++
4 8 (47.06%) Java
5 7 (41.18%) VB
5 7 (41.18%) VB.NET
5 7 (41.18%) MCP
5 7 (41.18%) MCAD
5 7 (41.18%) MCSD
5 7 (41.18%) Windows
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (41.18%) MVC
5 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
5 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
5 7 (41.18%) Scrum
5 7 (41.18%) WinForms
5 7 (41.18%) MCTS
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (41.18%) Kanban
5 7 (41.18%) Spring.NET
5 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) XML
3 7 (41.18%) WinForms
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
3 7 (41.18%) WCF
3 7 (41.18%) WPF
3 7 (41.18%) Spring.NET
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (41.18%) Castle Windsor
3 7 (41.18%) Ninject
3 7 (41.18%) Razor View Engine
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 7 (41.18%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (5.882%) NHibernate
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) NUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (41.18%) Moq
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
1 8 (47.06%) .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Applications Architect
2 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) OO
1 9 (52.94%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (47.06%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
3 7 (41.18%) MVC
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (41.18%) Kanban
3 7 (41.18%) Dependency Injection
3 7 (41.18%) MVVM
3 7 (41.18%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.882%) Business Transformation
4 1 (5.882%) OOP
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 8 (47.06%) C++
3 8 (47.06%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) VB
4 7 (41.18%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) MCP
1 7 (41.18%) MCAD
1 7 (41.18%) MCSD
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (41.18%) MCTS
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle