MSTest Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft MSTest
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring MSTest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 0.25% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - -
75th Percentile £54,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 - -

All Development Application Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 21 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 5.21% 8.82% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £46,700 £47,300 £51,000
25th Percentile £48,363 £51,750 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,100 £69,000 £84,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.04% -18.10% +51.66%
75th Percentile £72,875 £70,600 £106,938
90th Percentile £73,800 £73,940 £107,500
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -14.89%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

MSTest job vacancy trend in Newport

MSTest
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing MSTest

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft