MSTest Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft MSTest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 391 570 652
Rank change year-on-year +179 +82 +115
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 6 22 21
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.065% 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.33% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 21
10th Percentile £43,600 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,875 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £95,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -2.56%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

MSTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,837 3,906 6,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.28% 11.54% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 3,030 4,676
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £64,472
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.94% +7.45%
75th Percentile £81,750 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

MSTest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MSTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MSTest trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MSTest
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing MSTest over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Moq
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) xUnit.net
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (50.00%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of QA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) Electron
3 3 (50.00%) Highcharts JS
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) LESS
3 3 (50.00%) NgRx
3 3 (50.00%) Reactive Extensions
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) RxJS
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Ninject
5 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Credit Derivative
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (50.00%) Equities
1 3 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOP
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft