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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 260 217
Rank change year-on-year +42 -43 +134
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 5 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.090% 0.056% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.41% 0.99% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £48,000 - £47,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £38,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% -17.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £44,750 £55,313
90th Percentile £61,000 - £63,750
England median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +6.80% -14.17%

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 355 506 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.40% 5.64% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 216 255 397
10th Percentile £34,125 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
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 £60,741 £69,550
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

MSTest job vacancy trend 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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +45 5 £57,500 +38.55%
MSTest
England

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 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%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
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