MSTest Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft MSTest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MSTest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 469 537
Rank change year-on-year -108 +68 +87
Contract jobs citing MSTest 16 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.013% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.32% 0.090% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £223 £357 £288
25th Percentile £300 £383 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -32.14%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £544
90th Percentile £575 £525 £563
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% -19.15%

All Development Application Skills
England

MSTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,976 3,334 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,272 2,263 2,904
10th Percentile £348 £343 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 62 200
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MSTest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

MSTest job vacancy trend in England

MSTest
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest

MSTest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSTest in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MSTest in England

MSTest
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest

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 25 May 2026. 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 -68 10 £463 +2.78% 1
South East - 2 £206 -
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Serverless
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Cucumber
1 5 (31.25%) Mocha
1 5 (31.25%) tSQLt
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) NUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) Jasmine
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (12.50%) Postman
4 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) .NET
2 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
2 7 (43.75%) CSS
2 7 (43.75%) HTML
3 6 (37.50%) RESTful
4 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
4 5 (31.25%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (18.75%) JSON
5 3 (18.75%) XML
6 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (12.50%) Swagger
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Equities
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
1 11 (68.75%) Unit Testing
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) BDD
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (25.00%) OOP
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) SOLID
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) HP ALM
1 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) HP
2 2 (12.50%) Siemens
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase