The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 534 582 579
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -3
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 73 56 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.166% 0.104% 0.079%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.072% 0.766% 0.664%
Number of salaries quoted 70 52 40
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,750 £47,250
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
6812 7314 6780
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 15.49% 13.58% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5842 6459 5894
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSTest across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London MSTest Salary Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +7 9 £46,250 -17.77%
Hammersmith - 3 £47,500 -
Kingston Upon Thames +5 2 £60,000 +41.17%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 149 (93.71%) .NET
2 138 (86.79%) C#
3 133 (83.65%) SQL Server
4 128 (80.50%) NUnit
5 126 (79.25%) TDD
6 122 (76.73%) WCF
7 118 (74.21%) Scrum
8 107 (67.30%) ASP.NET
9 95 (59.75%) Finance
10 94 (59.12%) MVC
11 93 (58.49%) Moq
12 92 (57.86%) Continuous Integration
13 89 (55.97%) Rhino Mocks
13 89 (55.97%) Ninject
14 88 (55.35%) WPF
15 84 (52.83%) ASP.NET MVC
16 83 (52.20%) Kanban
17 81 (50.94%) Dependency Injection
17 81 (50.94%) Castle Windsor
17 81 (50.94%) Unity DI Container
18 80 (50.31%) Inversion of Control
18 80 (50.31%) Spring.NET
18 80 (50.31%) MCTS
18 80 (50.31%) Microsoft Certification
18 80 (50.31%) MCP
18 80 (50.31%) MCAD
18 80 (50.31%) MCSD
19 78 (49.06%) Razor View Engine
20 73 (45.91%) OO
21 62 (38.99%) Microsoft

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 149 (93.71%) .NET
2 122 (76.73%) WCF
3 107 (67.30%) ASP.NET
4 89 (55.97%) Ninject
5 88 (55.35%) WPF
6 84 (52.83%) ASP.NET MVC
7 81 (50.94%) Castle Windsor
7 81 (50.94%) Unity DI Container
8 80 (50.31%) Spring.NET
9 78 (49.06%) Razor View Engine
10 56 (35.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 54 (33.96%) WinForms
12 44 (27.67%) .NET Framework
13 43 (27.04%) Web Services
14 41 (25.79%) jQuery
15 39 (24.53%) HTML
16 38 (23.90%) CSS
17 25 (15.72%) XML
17 25 (15.72%) ASP.NET MVC 3
18 21 (13.21%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 9 (5.660%) CMS
2 7 (4.403%) IIS
3 1 (0.629%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (13.21%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.258%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.547%) HTTP
2 9 (5.660%) Intranet
2 9 (5.660%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (83.65%) SQL Server
2 23 (14.47%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (2.516%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (1.258%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (0.629%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.629%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 128 (80.50%) NUnit
2 93 (58.49%) Moq
3 89 (55.97%) Rhino Mocks
4 49 (30.82%) Team Foundation Server
5 22 (13.84%) Visual Studio
6 16 (10.06%) MSBuild
7 15 (9.434%) Git (software)
8 14 (8.805%) Subversion
9 13 (8.176%) Cucumber
9 13 (8.176%) Jasmine
10 9 (5.660%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 9 (5.660%) Fiddler
10 9 (5.660%) Jenkins
11 4 (2.516%) Selenium
12 3 (1.887%) SilkPerformer
13 1 (0.629%) FitNesse
13 1 (0.629%) Expression Blend
13 1 (0.629%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (59.75%) Finance
2 61 (38.36%) Banking
3 31 (19.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.629%) Front Office
4 1 (0.629%) Marketing
4 1 (0.629%) Games
Job Titles
1 121 (76.10%) Developer
2 103 (64.78%) .NET Developer
3 26 (16.35%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 26 (16.35%) Graduate
3 26 (16.35%) Graduate Developer
4 22 (13.84%) C# Developer
5 20 (12.58%) Team Leader
6 17 (10.69%) .NET Team Leader
7 14 (8.805%) C# .NET Developer
8 12 (7.547%) Technical Team Leader
8 12 (7.547%) ASP.NET Developer
9 11 (6.918%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 9 (5.660%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.403%) Web Developer
12 5 (3.145%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (3.145%) C# Web Developer
13 4 (2.516%) Front-End Developer
13 4 (2.516%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (2.516%) Test Manager
14 3 (1.887%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 80 (50.31%) Inversion of Control
2 28 (17.61%) Computer Science
3 26 (16.35%) Client/Server
3 26 (16.35%) Tandem
4 15 (9.434%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (8.176%) Streaming Video
6 9 (5.660%) Social Network
6 9 (5.660%) Replication
6 9 (5.660%) SaaS
7 7 (4.403%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.887%) iPad
9 2 (1.258%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.629%) Contract for Difference
10 1 (0.629%) Spread Betting
10 1 (0.629%) Mathematics
10 1 (0.629%) Physics
10 1 (0.629%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 54 (33.96%) Windows
2 3 (1.887%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (79.25%) TDD
2 118 (74.21%) Scrum
3 94 (59.12%) MVC
4 92 (57.86%) Continuous Integration
5 83 (52.20%) Kanban
6 81 (50.94%) Dependency Injection
7 73 (45.91%) OO
8 56 (35.22%) Web Application Development
9 37 (23.27%) OOP
10 35 (22.01%) MVVM
11 29 (18.24%) OOA/OOD
12 28 (17.61%) E-Commerce
13 27 (16.98%) OOD
13 27 (16.98%) Multithreading
14 20 (12.58%) Agile Software Development
15 13 (8.176%) DRM
15 13 (8.176%) Bug Management
16 11 (6.918%) Workflow
16 11 (6.918%) Web Development
16 11 (6.918%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 138 (86.79%) C#
2 43 (27.04%) JavaScript
3 18 (11.32%) SQL
4 14 (8.805%) VB
4 14 (8.805%) VB.NET
5 13 (8.176%) Java
6 11 (6.918%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.774%) XAML
8 3 (1.887%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.629%) C++
Qualifications
1 80 (50.31%) MCTS
1 80 (50.31%) Microsoft Certification
1 80 (50.31%) MCP
1 80 (50.31%) MCAD
1 80 (50.31%) MCSD
2 32 (20.13%) Degree
3 10 (6.289%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.145%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.887%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.629%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 62 (38.99%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.774%) Telerik
3 4 (2.516%) Reuters
3 4 (2.516%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.887%) Oracle
5 1 (0.629%) VMware
5 1 (0.629%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.629%) Sitecore
London
Our client can provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc), IoC (Unity / Castle Windsor etc), TDD (NUnit / MSTest etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Our client can provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc), IoC (Unity / Castle Windsor etc), TDD (NUnit / MSTest etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Our client offers training in: .NET 4.5, WCF, WPF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc), IoC (Unity / Castle Windsor etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Our client offers training in: .NET 4.5, WCF, WPF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc), IoC (Unity / Castle Windsor etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the Microsoft .net framework including: *.net framework and C# *Visual Studio *ASP.Net *Silverlight (XAML with data bindings etc) *...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
West London
Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (C#/.NET, Java, J2EE, C, C++) - Experience using version control systems (Subversion, GIT etc.) - Experience using mocking frameworks (Mockito,...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013