MSTest Contracts in the South East

Microsoft MSTest
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MSTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MSTest over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 - 265
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSTest 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.018% - 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
75th Percentile £575 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £700 £450
% change year-on-year -28.57% +55.56% +12.50%

All Development Application Skills
South East

MSTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 541 783 1,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.65% 13.22% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 512 686
10th Percentile £325 £364 £350
25th Percentile £406 £454 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £628 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £661
England median daily rate £532 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 38 32
10th Percentile £37.70 £35.49 £41.18
25th Percentile £52.81 £50.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.31 £65.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.39 £67.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +15.38%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the South East

MSTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSTest in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MSTest in the South East

MSTest
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Berkshire - 1 £550 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £550 - 3
MSTest
England

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google