MSTest Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft MSTest
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MSTest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 - 271
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.014% - 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% - 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
England median annual salary £59,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.50% -4.76% -7.89%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 326 342 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.63% 12.55% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 217 242 835
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,950 £93,778 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

MSTest job vacancy trend in the South West

MSTest
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MSTest

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 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
Bristol - 1 - -
MSTest
England

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL