MSTest Job Trends in England

Microsoft MSTest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MSTest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 637 717
Rank change year-on-year -99 +80 +10
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 6 13 42
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.006% 0.030% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.15% 0.37% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 30
10th Percentile - £38,825 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,081 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,250 £58,750 £66,875
90th Percentile - - £80,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.37% +5.56% -18.18%

All Development Application Skills
England

MSTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,093 3,553 6,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.35% 8.11% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 2,276 4,093
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £38,550
25th Percentile £46,743 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,009 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% +4.17% -7.69%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MSTest relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

MSTest job vacancy trend in England

MSTest
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSTest

MSTest
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the England region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -1 2 £50,000 - 2
South East -16 2 £59,500 -
North of England -45 2 £50,000 - 2
South West - 2 £50,000 -
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) NUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) Moq
4 1 (16.67%) Newman
4 1 (16.67%) NSubstitute
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (33.33%) Aviation
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Playwright
3 2 (33.33%) ADO
3 2 (33.33%) Ninject
3 2 (33.33%) Spring.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (33.33%) WPF
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) API Testing
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) MVVM
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
1 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Facebook
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint