MSTest Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft MSTest
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring MSTest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 275 225
Rank change year-on-year +45 -50 +136
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 5 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.089% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.27% 1.94% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £48,000 £39,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £39,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -12.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £61,000 £52,600 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -15.38%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 393 568 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.01% 5.64% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 241 314 429
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.84%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the Midlands

MSTest
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MSTest

MSTest
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSTest in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the Midlands

MSTest
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
West Midlands +41 5 £57,500 +30.68%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) NUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Moq
2 2 (40.00%) NSubstitute
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Specialist
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Integration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (80.00%) Entity Framework
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft