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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 373 454
Rank change year-on-year +18 +81 +131
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MSTest 4 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.062% 0.022%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% 0.43% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £429 £459 £453
25th Percentile £434 £502 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -14.81% +27.36%
75th Percentile £536 £803 £694
90th Percentile £537 £875 £698
England median daily rate £475 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +2.44%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,124 2,324 3,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.89% 14.31% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 1,594 2,510
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 31
10th Percentile £31.30 £24.60 £36.00
25th Percentile £39.06 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -46.43% +58.69%
75th Percentile £64.69 £71.25 £81.25
90th Percentile £86.63 £71.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MSTest

MSTest
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MSTest

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 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) NSubstitute
2 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) Vitest
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Monorepo
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle