The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 74 71 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 8 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.154% 1.057% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.938% 5.405% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 0
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Development Applications
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
162 148 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 23.38% 19.55% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 141 125 87
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% +7.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £27,000 £21,400
10% offered a salary of more than £46,200 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
MSTest
East Midlands

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester -8 8 £40,000 - 1
MSTest
East Midlands

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (94.74%) TDD
3 17 (89.47%) WPF
4 14 (73.68%) Moq
4 14 (73.68%) NUnit
5 13 (68.42%) Telecoms
5 13 (68.42%) Scrum
5 13 (68.42%) Broadband
5 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (68.42%) C++
5 13 (68.42%) MCP
5 13 (68.42%) MCAD
5 13 (68.42%) MCSD
5 13 (68.42%) Castle Windsor
5 13 (68.42%) Ninject
5 13 (68.42%) Unity DI Container
5 13 (68.42%) MCTS
5 13 (68.42%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (68.42%) Kanban
5 13 (68.42%) Spring.NET
5 13 (68.42%) Dependency Injection
5 13 (68.42%) Inversion of Control
5 13 (68.42%) MVVM
5 13 (68.42%) Rhino Mocks
6 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
7 5 (26.32%) Windows
7 5 (26.32%) SQL
7 5 (26.32%) MVC

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) WPF
3 13 (68.42%) Castle Windsor
3 13 (68.42%) Ninject
3 13 (68.42%) Unity DI Container
3 13 (68.42%) Spring.NET
4 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
5 5 (26.32%) jQuery
6 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
6 4 (21.05%) JSON
6 4 (21.05%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (21.05%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (21.05%) HTML
7 1 (5.263%) ASP
7 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (21.05%) Informix
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Moq
1 14 (73.68%) NUnit
2 13 (68.42%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 13 (68.42%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
1 18 (94.74%) .NET Developer
2 1 (5.263%) Analyst
2 1 (5.263%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (5.263%) Programmer
2 1 (5.263%) C# Developer
2 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (5.263%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (5.263%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) TDD
2 13 (68.42%) Scrum
2 13 (68.42%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (68.42%) Kanban
2 13 (68.42%) Dependency Injection
2 13 (68.42%) MVVM
3 5 (26.32%) MVC
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.263%) OOD
4 1 (5.263%) OO
4 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.263%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (68.42%) C++
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.263%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (68.42%) MCP
1 13 (68.42%) MCAD
1 13 (68.42%) MCSD
1 13 (68.42%) MCTS
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
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