MSTest Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft MSTest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 641 760
Rank change year-on-year +79 +119 -216
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 22 22 85
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.065% 0.052% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 38
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £50,938 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £63,625 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +33.33%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,897 6,507 16,182
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.54% 15.34% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,012 4,627 8,380
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,372
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,029 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +6.72% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

MSTest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MSTest trend for jobs with a WFH option

MSTest
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSTest.

MSTest salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MSTest
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MSTest over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

MSTest salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MSTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) NUnit
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 4 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (13.64%) Selenium
5 2 (9.09%) HP UFT
5 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (9.09%) JMeter
5 2 (9.09%) JUnit
5 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner
5 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (4.55%) Git
6 1 (4.55%) Moq
6 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 12 (54.55%) .NET Developer
4 8 (36.36%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 5 (22.73%) C# Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Senior
5 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
6 4 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) C# WPF Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead
6 4 (18.18%) Lead .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Full Stack Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior Full Stack Developer
6 4 (18.18%) WPF Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) .NET
2 12 (54.55%) React
3 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
3 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
3 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET Web API
3 7 (31.82%) Entity Framework
3 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (31.82%) Vue
4 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
4 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (22.73%) ADO.NET
5 5 (22.73%) Dapper ORM
5 5 (22.73%) Next.js
5 5 (22.73%) Nuxt
6 4 (18.18%) Ninject
6 4 (18.18%) Spring.NET
6 4 (18.18%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (18.18%) WPF
7 2 (9.09%) LINQ
7 2 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (18.18%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Full Stack Development
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
4 7 (31.82%) MVC
4 7 (31.82%) OWASP
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (22.73%) Issue Tracking
6 5 (22.73%) SDLC
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 4 (18.18%) Coaching
7 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
7 4 (18.18%) Inversion of Control
7 4 (18.18%) Kanban
7 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 4 (18.18%) MVVM
7 4 (18.18%) Technical Debt
7 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) C#
2 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 10 (45.45%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 2 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Facebook
2 4 (18.18%) Twitter