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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 177 174 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 12 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.297% 0.027% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.846% 0.188% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 0
Average salary £32,500 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
650 532 509
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 16.08% 14.59% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 585 480 475
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,600
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
North West

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Stockport - 7 £32,500 -
MSTest
North West

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 34 (100.00%) C#
1 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (94.12%) TDD
2 32 (94.12%) NUnit
3 31 (91.18%) MVC
3 31 (91.18%) WinForms
3 31 (91.18%) ASP.NET
3 31 (91.18%) WCF
3 31 (91.18%) WPF
4 29 (85.29%) Continuous Integration
4 29 (85.29%) Kanban
4 29 (85.29%) Spring.NET
4 29 (85.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 29 (85.29%) Dependency Injection
4 29 (85.29%) Inversion of Control
4 29 (85.29%) MVVM
4 29 (85.29%) Rhino Mocks
4 29 (85.29%) Moq
4 29 (85.29%) Castle Windsor
4 29 (85.29%) Ninject
4 29 (85.29%) Razor View Engine
4 29 (85.29%) Web Application Development
4 29 (85.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 29 (85.29%) Unity DI Container
4 29 (85.29%) MCP
4 29 (85.29%) MCAD
4 29 (85.29%) MCSD
4 29 (85.29%) Windows
4 29 (85.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (85.29%) Scrum

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (91.18%) ASP.NET
2 31 (91.18%) WinForms
2 31 (91.18%) WCF
2 31 (91.18%) WPF
3 29 (85.29%) Spring.NET
3 29 (85.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 29 (85.29%) Castle Windsor
3 29 (85.29%) Ninject
3 29 (85.29%) Razor View Engine
3 29 (85.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 29 (85.29%) Unity DI Container
4 10 (29.41%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (5.882%) LINQ
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (67.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (94.12%) NUnit
2 29 (85.29%) Rhino Mocks
2 29 (85.29%) Moq
3 2 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 2 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (100.00%) Developer
2 29 (85.29%) .NET Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Graduate
3 8 (23.53%) Junior
3 8 (23.53%) Junior Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Junior .NET Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Graduate Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 3 (8.824%) C# Programmer
4 3 (8.824%) C# Analyst Programmer
4 3 (8.824%) Developer Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) C# Developer
4 3 (8.824%) Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Analyst Programmer
4 3 (8.824%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (85.29%) Inversion of Control
2 8 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (85.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) TDD
2 31 (91.18%) MVC
3 29 (85.29%) Scrum
3 29 (85.29%) Continuous Integration
3 29 (85.29%) Kanban
3 29 (85.29%) Dependency Injection
3 29 (85.29%) MVVM
3 29 (85.29%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) MCP
1 29 (85.29%) MCAD
1 29 (85.29%) MCSD
1 29 (85.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 29 (85.29%) MCTS
2 3 (8.824%) Degree
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle