Microsoft MSTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MSTest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MSTest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 841 942
Rank change year-on-year +166 +101 +98
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 17 55 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.056% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 0.57% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 42
10th Percentile £39,160 £39,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +10.00%

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 5,477 9,582 15,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 9.73% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 6,757 9,176
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MSTest in the UK

MSTest
Top 9 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 1 May 2025. 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 +147 16 £52,500 +2.44% 7
London +110 12 £50,000 -33.33%
Work from Home +179 6 £55,000 -4.35% 3
UK excluding London +175 5 £48,750 +8.33% 7
North of England +76 2 - - 2
North West +30 2 - - 2
Scotland +126 1 £42,500 -
South East +105 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 1

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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) SaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
3 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) NUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (35.29%) SpecFlow
4 4 (23.53%) Git
4 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 4 (23.53%) Postman
5 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
5 3 (17.65%) JMeter
5 3 (17.65%) Mocha
5 3 (17.65%) SoapUI
5 3 (17.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.88%) Moq
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
6 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.88%) xUnit.net
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Front Office
2 3 (17.65%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Lead
2 6 (35.29%) QA Leader
2 6 (35.29%) Test Leader
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Lead .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Release Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Head of QA
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) Playwright
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
4 4 (23.53%) JSON
4 4 (23.53%) Swagger
5 3 (17.65%) CSS3
5 3 (17.65%) Electron
5 3 (17.65%) Highcharts JS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML5
5 3 (17.65%) Jest
5 3 (17.65%) NgRx
5 3 (17.65%) Reactive Extensions
5 3 (17.65%) REST
5 3 (17.65%) RxJS
5 3 (17.65%) Web Services
5 3 (17.65%) WebdriverIO
5 3 (17.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Virtual Team
2 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (17.65%) Derivative
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (17.65%) Equities
3 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
3 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
4 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
6 4 (23.53%) Defect Management
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) OO
6 4 (23.53%) OOP
7 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
7 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Test Planning
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
4 6 (35.29%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) Java
5 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft