Microsoft MSTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MSTest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 755 670 825
Rank change year-on-year -85 +155 +4
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 6 14 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.028% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% 0.33% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 41
10th Percentile - £38,825 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,250 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £89,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +27.78% -18.18%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,370 4,225 8,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 8.58% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,911 2,677 6,100
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MSTest job vacancy trend in the UK

MSTest
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSTest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSTest

MSTest
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSTest within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
UK excluding London -68 6 £52,000 -9.57% 4
England -69 5 £54,750 +9.50% 5
Work from Home -7 4 £54,750 - 5
North West -12 2 £50,000 - 3
North of England -17 2 £50,000 - 3
South East -27 2 £59,500 - 1
South West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £52,000 -

MSTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) NUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (33.33%) Aviation
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ADO
2 2 (33.33%) Ninject
2 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) Spring.NET
2 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) MVVM
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
1 2 (33.33%) WCAG
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Facebook