Microsoft MSTest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 685 812
Rank change year-on-year +95 +127 -161
Contract jobs citing MSTest 4 31 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.052% 0.048%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.078% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 26
10th Percentile £288 £406 £360
25th Percentile £344 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £429
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +39.94% +7.19%
75th Percentile £544 £700 £484
90th Percentile £563 £768 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £431 £408
% change year-on-year +27.54% +5.83% +1.88%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,122 9,016 15,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.10% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,340 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 246 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSTest over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSTest.

Hourly rate trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +101 4 £475 -32.14% 20
Work from Home +116 3 £363 -50.00% 10
London +93 2 £475 -32.14% 5
UK excluding London +51 1 £550 +27.54% 14
South East +20 1 £550 +4.76% 2

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Progressive Web App
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google