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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.212% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 8.000% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £35,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
100 144 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 15.15% 18.87% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 96 139 89
Average salary £38,500 £41,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.09% +17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £42,300 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
East Midlands

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Salary Histogram

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton - 5 £36,000 -
Towcester - 2 £35,000 -
MSTest
East Midlands

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (91.30%) SQL Server
2 21 (91.30%) Scrum
3 20 (86.96%) WinForms
3 20 (86.96%) MVC
3 20 (86.96%) TDD
3 20 (86.96%) NUnit
3 20 (86.96%) MCTS
3 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET
3 20 (86.96%) MCP
3 20 (86.96%) MCAD
3 20 (86.96%) MCSD
3 20 (86.96%) C#
3 20 (86.96%) Windows
3 20 (86.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (86.96%) Spring.NET
3 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC
3 20 (86.96%) Dependency Injection
3 20 (86.96%) Inversion of Control
3 20 (86.96%) MVVM
3 20 (86.96%) Rhino Mocks
3 20 (86.96%) Moq
3 20 (86.96%) Castle Windsor
3 20 (86.96%) Ninject
3 20 (86.96%) Razor View Engine
3 20 (86.96%) Web Application Development
3 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 20 (86.96%) WCF
3 20 (86.96%) WPF
3 20 (86.96%) Continuous Integration

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET
2 20 (86.96%) WinForms
2 20 (86.96%) WCF
2 20 (86.96%) WPF
2 20 (86.96%) Spring.NET
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC
2 20 (86.96%) Castle Windsor
2 20 (86.96%) Ninject
2 20 (86.96%) Razor View Engine
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 20 (86.96%) Unity DI Container
3 3 (13.04%) J2EE
4 2 (8.696%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (86.96%) NUnit
1 20 (86.96%) Rhino Mocks
1 20 (86.96%) Moq
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) FitNesse
2 3 (13.04%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
1 20 (86.96%) .NET Developer
2 2 (8.696%) Graduate
2 2 (8.696%) Junior
2 2 (8.696%) Software Engineer
2 2 (8.696%) Junior Developer
2 2 (8.696%) Junior .NET Developer
2 2 (8.696%) Graduate Developer
2 2 (8.696%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 20 (86.96%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.696%) Tandem
3 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Scrum
2 20 (86.96%) MVC
2 20 (86.96%) TDD
2 20 (86.96%) Continuous Integration
2 20 (86.96%) Kanban
2 20 (86.96%) Dependency Injection
2 20 (86.96%) MVVM
2 20 (86.96%) Web Application Development
3 7 (30.43%) OO
4 3 (13.04%) OOD
4 3 (13.04%) OOP
5 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.348%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.696%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) MCP
1 20 (86.96%) MCAD
1 20 (86.96%) MCSD
1 20 (86.96%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (86.96%) MCTS
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft