MSTest Jobs in the South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for MSTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSTest over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft MSTest England / South West
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	213	220	232
Rank change year-on-year	+7	+12
Permanent jobs citing MSTest	29	15	18
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West	0.55%	0.29%	0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.23%	1.49%	1.57%
Number of salaries quoted	27	11	18
Median salary	£42,500	£37,500	£35,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than	£35,000	£37,500	£32,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£39,000	£37,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	-

MSTest is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for development application skills.

Development Application Skills South West
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	1301	1007	1148
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West	24.58%	19.21%	19.28%
Number of salaries quoted	1098	882	974
Median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£55,000	£60,000	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£42,500	£42,000
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	+1.19%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South West citing MSTest as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the South West

MSTest
Salary Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MSTest in the South West.

Salary trend for MSTest in the South West

MSTest
Salary Histogram in the South West

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing MSTest in the South West over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the South West

MSTest
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the South West region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Bristol	-4	22	£42,500	+13.33%	2
Dorset	+4	6	£35,000	-13.04%	7
Gloucestershire	-	1	£35,000	-
MSTest England

MSTest
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT jobs citing MSTest also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the South West region with a requirement for MSTest.

1	45 (86.54%)	Agile Software Development
2	39 (75.00%)	TDD
3	37 (71.15%)	C#
4	35 (67.31%)	NUnit
5	34 (65.38%)	.NET
6	30 (57.69%)	Continuous Integration
7	29 (55.77%)	SQL Server
8	23 (44.23%)	Inversion of Control
8	23 (44.23%)	Castle Windsor
9	21 (40.38%)	.NET Framework
10	20 (38.46%)	Microsoft Azure
10	20 (38.46%)	Amazon AWS
10	20 (38.46%)	OO
11	19 (36.54%)	Scrum
11	19 (36.54%)	WCF

12	18 (34.62%)	ASP.NET
13	17 (32.69%)	MVC
13	17 (32.69%)	WPF
14	16 (30.77%)	JavaScript
15	15 (28.85%)	Java
16	14 (26.92%)	Dependency Injection
17	13 (25.00%)	Puppet
17	13 (25.00%)	NoSQL
17	13 (25.00%)	WebSphere
17	13 (25.00%)	BizTalk Server
17	13 (25.00%)	PostgreSQL
17	13 (25.00%)	Tomcat
17	13 (25.00%)	WebLogic
17	13 (25.00%)	MySQL
17	13 (25.00%)	Oracle

MSTest
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	13 (25.00%)	BizTalk Server
1	13 (25.00%)	OpenStack
1	13 (25.00%)	Tomcat
1	13 (25.00%)	WebLogic
1	13 (25.00%)	WebSphere
2	1 (1.92%)	IIS

Cloud Services
1	20 (38.46%)	Amazon AWS
1	20 (38.46%)	Microsoft Azure

Communications & Networking
1	8 (15.38%)	Broadband
2	1 (1.92%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	29 (55.77%)	SQL Server
2	13 (25.00%)	MySQL
2	13 (25.00%)	NoSQL
2	13 (25.00%)	PostgreSQL
3	11 (21.15%)	SQL Server 2016
4	4 (7.69%)	Relational Database
4	4 (7.69%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	4 (7.69%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	1 (1.92%)	Data Warehouse
5	1 (1.92%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	35 (67.31%)	NUnit
2	12 (23.08%)	Rhino Mocks
3	11 (21.15%)	Team Foundation Server
4	9 (17.31%)	Moq
5	5 (9.62%)	JIRA
6	4 (7.69%)	MSBuild
7	2 (3.85%)	Ranorex
7	2 (3.85%)	Selenium
8	1 (1.92%)	SpecFlow
8	1 (1.92%)	Subversion

General
1	10 (19.23%)	Finance
2	8 (15.38%)	Telecoms
3	4 (7.69%)	Banking
4	3 (5.77%)	Music Industry
5	1 (1.92%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	46 (88.46%)	Developer
2	29 (55.77%)	.NET Developer
3	20 (38.46%)	C# Developer
4	17 (32.69%)	C# .NET Developer
5	14 (26.92%)	Senior Developer
6	13 (25.00%)	Full Stack Developer
6	13 (25.00%)	Java Developer
7	9 (17.31%)	Senior Full Stack Developer
7	9 (17.31%)	Senior Java Developer
8	8 (15.38%)	ASP.NET Developer
8	8 (15.38%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
8	8 (15.38%)	Telecoms Developer
9	6 (11.54%)	.NET Software Developer
9	6 (11.54%)	C# Software Developer
9	6 (11.54%)	Software Developer
10	5 (9.62%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
10	5 (9.62%)	Senior C# Developer
11	4 (7.69%)	Senior .NET Developer
11	4 (7.69%)	Senior C# .NET Developer
12	2 (3.85%)	Lead Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	34 (65.38%)	.NET
2	23 (44.23%)	Castle Windsor
3	21 (40.38%)	.NET Framework
4	19 (36.54%)	WCF
5	18 (34.62%)	ASP.NET
6	17 (32.69%)	WPF
7	12 (23.08%)	HTML
8	11 (21.15%)	Ninject
8	11 (21.15%)	Spring.NET
8	11 (21.15%)	Unity DI Container
9	7 (13.46%)	NHibernate
10	6 (11.54%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	5 (9.62%)	XML
12	4 (7.69%)	Entity Framework
12	4 (7.69%)	WinForms
13	3 (5.77%)	LINQ
13	3 (5.77%)	WF
14	2 (3.85%)	CSS
15	1 (1.92%)	jQuery
15	1 (1.92%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	9 (17.31%)	Greenfield Project
2	3 (5.77%)	User Experience
3	2 (3.85%)	Enterprise Software
4	1 (1.92%)	PlayStation

Operating Systems
1	8 (15.38%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	45 (86.54%)	Agile Software Development
2	39 (75.00%)	TDD
3	30 (57.69%)	Continuous Integration
4	23 (44.23%)	Inversion of Control
5	20 (38.46%)	OO
6	19 (36.54%)	Scrum
7	17 (32.69%)	MVC
8	14 (26.92%)	Dependency Injection
9	12 (23.08%)	Responsive Web Design
10	11 (21.15%)	Kanban
10	11 (21.15%)	MVVM
10	11 (21.15%)	Web Design
11	5 (9.62%)	Software Engineering
12	4 (7.69%)	Domain-Driven Design
12	4 (7.69%)	OOD
13	3 (5.77%)	ETL
13	3 (5.77%)	Software Delivery
13	3 (5.77%)	Test Automation
13	3 (5.77%)	Unit Testing
14	2 (3.85%)	Multithreading

Programming Languages
1	37 (71.15%)	C#
2	16 (30.77%)	JavaScript
3	15 (28.85%)	Java
4	9 (17.31%)	SQL
5	4 (7.69%)	C++
5	4 (7.69%)	VB
5	4 (7.69%)	VB.NET
6	3 (5.77%)	PL/SQL
6	3 (5.77%)	T-SQL
7	2 (3.85%)	Python
8	1 (1.92%)	C