MSTest Contracts in England

Microsoft MSTest
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MSTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MSTest over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 627 751
Rank change year-on-year +93 +124 -143
Contract jobs citing MSTest 4 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.042% 0.053%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.094% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 22
10th Percentile £288 £488 £364
25th Percentile £344 £584 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £688 £429
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +60.35% +7.19%
75th Percentile £544 £738 £475
90th Percentile £563 £775 £571
UK median daily rate £475 £588 £429
% change year-on-year -19.15% +37.03% +7.19%

All Development Application Skills
England

MSTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,250 7,475 12,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.53% 14.95% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 5,280 9,089
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 221 184
10th Percentile £32.74 £44.64 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +9.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.30 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in England

MSTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSTest in England.

Daily rate trend for MSTest in England

MSTest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSTest in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MSTest in England

MSTest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSTest in England.

Hourly rate trend for MSTest in England

MSTest
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 2 £475 -32.14% 5
South East +21 1 £550 +10.00% 1
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Progressive Web App
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google