The first table below looks at the demand for MSTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 22 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSTest
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Development Applications
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
195 138 167
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 15.56% 11.71% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 175 132 149
Average salary £37,500 £32,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.18% -13.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales MSTest Salary Trend

MSTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MCAD
3 1 (33.33%) MCSD
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms

MSTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) Spring.NET
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (33.33%) Ninject
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (33.33%) Moq
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (33.33%) MCAD
2 1 (33.33%) MCSD
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCTS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft