MSTest Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft MSTest
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring MSTest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 156 213
Rank change year-on-year -16 +57 -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.037% 0.089% 0.080%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.87% 0.78% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £55,000 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £50,000 - £50,000

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 230 257 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.29% 11.48% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 170 177 388
10th Percentile £33,625 £42,500 £36,175
25th Percentile £45,313 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -4.35%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

MSTest job vacancy trend in Manchester

MSTest
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MSTest

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Ninject
1 2 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft