MSTest Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft MSTest
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MSTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSTest over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 729 788
Rank change year-on-year +18 +59 -206
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 38 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.055% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.41% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26 30 41
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £54,688 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £56,875 £60,250 £65,313
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.80% +31.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

MSTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,719 8,247 12,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.59% 13.35% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,628 4,611 7,589
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the UK excluding London

MSTest
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSTest in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MSTest in the UK excluding London

MSTest
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSTest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the UK excluding London

MSTest
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Midlands +13 11 £44,000 -23.48% 5
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +35 10 £44,000 -23.48% 4
Scotland - 7 - -
Yorkshire - 7 £65,000 -
South East +25 5 £52,500 -7.89% 2
North West - 4 £50,000 - 1
South West -13 3 £45,000 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -
MSTest
UK

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Serverless
4 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) SQL Server
2 10 (26.32%) DynamoDB
2 10 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Git
2 13 (34.21%) NUnit
3 12 (31.58%) JIRA
4 9 (23.68%) Visual Studio
5 8 (21.05%) Postman
6 7 (18.42%) Selenium
7 6 (15.79%) Bitbucket
7 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
7 6 (15.79%) JMeter
8 5 (13.16%) HP UFT
8 5 (13.16%) LoadRunner
8 5 (13.16%) SoapUI
8 5 (13.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (7.89%) SpecFlow
10 2 (5.26%) Moq
10 2 (5.26%) webpack
11 1 (2.63%) TestComplete
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 17 (44.74%) Test Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (21.05%) .NET Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Senior
6 6 (15.79%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) Software Test Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
8 4 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (10.53%) C# Developer
8 4 (10.53%) C# WPF Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (10.53%) WPF Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
9 2 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) QA Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (52.63%) .NET
2 11 (28.95%) .NET Framework
2 11 (28.95%) JSON
2 11 (28.95%) XML
3 8 (21.05%) .NET Core
3 8 (21.05%) Entity Framework
3 8 (21.05%) React
4 7 (18.42%) Blazor
4 7 (18.42%) REST
5 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (13.16%) ADO.NET
6 5 (13.16%) Dapper ORM
6 5 (13.16%) Next.js
6 5 (13.16%) Nuxt
6 5 (13.16%) SOAP
7 4 (10.53%) Ninject
7 4 (10.53%) Spring.NET
7 4 (10.53%) Unity DI Container
7 4 (10.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.79%) IoT
3 5 (13.16%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (10.53%) Social Network
5 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Agile
2 25 (65.79%) DevOps
3 24 (63.16%) Test Automation
4 16 (42.11%) Functional Testing
4 16 (42.11%) Software Testing
5 14 (36.84%) Full Stack Development
5 14 (36.84%) Scrum
5 14 (36.84%) Unit Testing
6 12 (31.58%) MVC
7 11 (28.95%) Regression Testing
7 11 (28.95%) Scenario Testing
8 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (26.32%) Security Testing
8 10 (26.32%) Sprint Planning
8 10 (26.32%) Sprint Retrospective
8 10 (26.32%) Test Scripting
9 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
9 7 (18.42%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (18.42%) SDLC
9 7 (18.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) C#
2 21 (55.26%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.05%) T-SQL
5 5 (13.16%) C
6 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (13.16%) ISTQB
2 5 (13.16%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Facebook
2 4 (10.53%) Twitter
3 1 (2.63%) Google