MSTest Contracts in London

Microsoft MSTest
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 350 389 477
Rank change year-on-year +39 +88 +92
Contract jobs citing MSTest 3 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.011% 0.059%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.086% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile £357 - £550
25th Percentile £383 £438 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -32.14% +55.56%
75th Percentile £506 £513 £738
90th Percentile £525 - £775
England median daily rate £450 £475 £700
% change year-on-year -5.26% -32.14% +63.27%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in London

MSTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MSTest in London

MSTest
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSTest in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MSTest in London

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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