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 8 August 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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
6,330
17,313
20,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
17.97%
18.99%
20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted
4,088
11,293
14,350
Median daily rate
£500
£475
£470
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26%
+1.06%
+5.62%
10th Percentile
£325
£325
£319
90th Percentile
£663
£638
£613
UK excluding London median daily rate
£450
£450
£425
% change year-on-year
-
+5.88%
+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted
133
290
220
Median hourly rate
£42.50
£44.00
£42.38
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.41%
+3.83%
+2.42%
10th Percentile
£22.00
£24.00
£26.50
90th Percentile
£57.50
£55.00
£53.88
Median hourly rate
£44.50
£43.00
£42.00
% change year-on-year
+3.49%
+2.38%
-1.18%
MSTest Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
MSTest Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSTest.
MSTest Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSTest over the 6 months to 8 August 2020.
MSTest Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSTest.
MSTest Top 13 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 8 August 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 8 August 2020, IT contractor jobs citing MSTest also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for MSTest.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
