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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 495 523
Rank change year-on-year -131 +28 +68
Contract jobs citing MSTest 11 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.015% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.21% 0.098% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £208 £272 £503
25th Percentile £338 £378 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +22.67%
75th Percentile £513 £536 £803
90th Percentile £530 £537 £875
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -10.38% -7.83% +22.67%

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 5,288 4,094 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.93% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,830 2,789
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 92 169
10th Percentile £24.62 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.94 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -77 4 £500 -4.76% 4
South East -62 2 £206 +2.49% 2
East of England - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
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 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
5 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) NUnit
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Mocha
2 3 (27.27%) tSQLt
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Ranorex
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
3 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Equities
1 2 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Unit Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 3 (27.27%) Workflow
6 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
5 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP ALM
1 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Siemens
2 2 (18.18%) Sybase
3 1 (9.09%) Telerik