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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.224% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 11.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £24,250 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
54 75 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.02% 16.56% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 57
Average salary £27,500 £33,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -17.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £31,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
Tyne and Wear

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSTest across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne MSTest Salary Histogram

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (87.50%) C#
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) NUnit
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (75.00%) WCF
3 5 (62.50%) WPF
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (62.50%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (62.50%) MVVM
3 5 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (62.50%) Moq
3 5 (62.50%) Castle Windsor
3 5 (62.50%) Ninject
3 5 (62.50%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (62.50%) MCTS
3 5 (62.50%) Spring.NET
3 5 (62.50%) Web Application Development
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (62.50%) Unity DI Container
3 5 (62.50%) MVC
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) MCP

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (75.00%) WCF
3 5 (62.50%) WPF
3 5 (62.50%) Spring.NET
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (62.50%) Castle Windsor
3 5 (62.50%) Ninject
3 5 (62.50%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (62.50%) Unity DI Container
3 5 (62.50%) WinForms
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) XSD
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) NUnit
2 5 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (62.50%) Moq
3 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) .NET Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Junior Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Junior .NET Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate
2 5 (62.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Tandem
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
1 5 (62.50%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Scrum
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 5 (62.50%) MVC
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (62.50%) Kanban
2 5 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (62.50%) MVVM
2 5 (62.50%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 1 (12.50%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) MCP
1 5 (62.50%) MCAD
1 5 (62.50%) MCSD
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (62.50%) MCTS
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
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