MSTest Contracts in England

Microsoft MSTest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MSTest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSTest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 538 633
Rank change year-on-year +56 +95 +111
Contract jobs citing MSTest 3 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.011% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.094% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile £357 £288 £523
25th Percentile £383 £344 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -32.14% +63.27%
75th Percentile £506 £544 £738
90th Percentile £525 £563 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +39.94%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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 1 May 2025.

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

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +39 3 £450 -5.26% 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) NSubstitute
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Coded UI
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Ranorex
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) React
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA