Microsoft MSTest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 709 987 977
Rank change year-on-year +278 -10 -301
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 32 89 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.072% 0.094%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26 79 96
10th Percentile £45,375 £44,632 £39,875
25th Percentile £47,750 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,978 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.89% +30.56% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,903 22,328 26,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 18.01% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 12,623 16,358
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,581 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -

MSTest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSTest.

Salary trend for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSTest over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Top 12 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 4 December 2023. 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
England +291 30 £50,750 -15.42% 24
UK excluding London +210 19 £50,000 -14.89% 18
London +260 13 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Work from Home +202 12 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Midlands +126 9 £50,000 +11.94% 1
East Midlands - 7 £49,000 -
South West +69 4 £50,250 -27.13%
South East +142 3 £60,000 +5.26% 12
West Midlands +129 2 £51,250 +14.74% 1
Wales - 2 £52,500 - 1
North West - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 3

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.63%) Serverless
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 4 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (78.13%) NUnit
2 12 (37.50%) Git
3 10 (31.25%) Selenium
4 8 (25.00%) Postman
5 5 (15.63%) JMeter
6 4 (12.50%) Gatling
6 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
6 4 (12.50%) WebDriver
7 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.13%) Moq
8 1 (3.13%) NSubstitute
8 1 (3.13%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Aerospace
2 5 (15.63%) Automotive
3 1 (3.13%) Back Office
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Developer
2 13 (40.63%) .NET Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (25.00%) Senior
5 7 (21.88%) Senior .NET Developer
5 7 (21.88%) Senior Developer
6 6 (18.75%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 5 (15.63%) Senior Full Stack Developer
8 4 (12.50%) C# Developer
9 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 3 (9.38%) Lead
10 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
10 2 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (6.25%) Lead .NET Developer
10 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
11 1 (3.13%) CRM Developer
11 1 (3.13%) Lead C# Developer
11 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Developer
11 1 (3.13%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 1 (3.13%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (93.75%) .NET
2 22 (68.75%) .NET Framework
3 15 (46.88%) Entity Framework
4 14 (43.75%) REST
5 10 (31.25%) Web Services
6 9 (28.13%) jQuery
7 8 (25.00%) LINQ
8 7 (21.88%) .NET Core
8 7 (21.88%) React
9 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
9 5 (15.63%) SignalR
10 4 (12.50%) JSON
11 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET
12 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (6.25%) CSS
12 2 (6.25%) HTML
12 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (6.25%) Vue
13 1 (3.13%) Blazor
13 1 (3.13%) Castle Windsor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Agile
2 14 (43.75%) Dependency Injection
3 13 (40.63%) Design Patterns
3 13 (40.63%) SOLID
3 13 (40.63%) TDD
4 12 (37.50%) DevOps
4 12 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (28.13%) Unit Testing
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (25.00%) MVC
7 7 (21.88%) OO
8 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.63%) MVVM
9 5 (15.63%) Scrum
9 5 (15.63%) SDET
9 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 5 (15.63%) UML
10 4 (12.50%) E-Discovery
10 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) C#
2 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (34.38%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Nintex
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) Telerik