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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 874 1060
Rank change year-on-year +32 +186 -204
Permanent jobs citing MSTest 62 45 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 44 40 110
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,500 £63,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -5.17% +28.89%

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 9,534 12,866 40,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 13.91% 23.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,498 8,121 16,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,772 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 2024. 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 +38 51 £52,500 -8.70% 15
UK excluding London -45 42 £45,000 -18.18% 10
Work from Home +31 21 £62,500 +8.70% 12
London +100 16 £70,000 +12.00% 4
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -1 10 £44,000 -23.48% 3
Midlands -35 10 £44,000 -23.48% 4
South West -47 8 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland - 7 - -
Yorkshire - 7 £65,000 -
South East -30 6 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North West - 4 £50,000 - 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 8 (12.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
2 11 (17.74%) Serverless
3 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (51.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.74%) Relational Database
3 10 (16.13%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.23%) Power BI
6 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (46.77%) NUnit
2 22 (35.48%) Git
3 14 (22.58%) JIRA
4 11 (17.74%) Moq
5 9 (14.52%) Visual Studio
6 8 (12.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (11.29%) Postman
8 6 (9.68%) Bitbucket
8 6 (9.68%) Cypress.io
8 6 (9.68%) Selenium
9 5 (8.06%) HP UFT
9 5 (8.06%) JMeter
9 5 (8.06%) LoadRunner
9 5 (8.06%) SoapUI
10 4 (6.45%) SpecFlow
11 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
11 2 (3.23%) JUnit
11 2 (3.23%) TeamCity
11 2 (3.23%) webpack
12 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 21 (33.87%) Finance
2 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (58.06%) Developer
2 16 (25.81%) Test Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (24.19%) Senior
4 14 (22.58%) .NET Developer
5 12 (19.35%) C# Developer
6 10 (16.13%) Senior Developer
7 8 (12.90%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
9 6 (9.68%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (9.68%) Software Test Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) Lead
10 5 (8.06%) Lead Developer
10 5 (8.06%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) Software Developer
11 4 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (6.45%) C# WPF Developer
11 4 (6.45%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (6.45%) WPF Developer
12 3 (4.84%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (69.35%) .NET
2 25 (40.32%) .NET Framework
3 22 (35.48%) Entity Framework
4 19 (30.65%) JSON
4 19 (30.65%) XML
5 16 (25.81%) ASP.NET
5 16 (25.81%) React
6 14 (22.58%) .NET Core
6 14 (22.58%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (20.97%) RESTful
8 12 (19.35%) Blazor
9 11 (17.74%) AngularJS
9 11 (17.74%) CSS
10 9 (14.52%) HTML
10 9 (14.52%) LINQ
10 9 (14.52%) Web Services
11 8 (12.90%) jQuery
11 8 (12.90%) Razor View Engine
11 8 (12.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 7 (11.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.68%) IoT
3 5 (8.06%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.45%) Social Network
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) DevOps
2 27 (43.55%) Unit Testing
3 26 (41.94%) Test Automation
4 21 (33.87%) Full Stack Development
5 20 (32.26%) MVC
6 19 (30.65%) Design Patterns
7 18 (29.03%) Scrum
8 17 (27.42%) SOLID
9 16 (25.81%) Functional Testing
9 16 (25.81%) Software Testing
10 15 (24.19%) Computer Science
11 12 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (19.35%) SDLC
11 12 (19.35%) Sprint Retrospective
12 11 (17.74%) Clean Code
12 11 (17.74%) Code Quality
12 11 (17.74%) Dependency Injection
12 11 (17.74%) MVVM
12 11 (17.74%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (75.81%) C#
2 32 (51.61%) SQL
3 24 (38.71%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.29%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.06%) C
6 3 (4.84%) Python
7 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Degree
2 13 (20.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.06%) ISTQB
3 5 (8.06%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Facebook
2 4 (6.45%) Twitter
3 2 (3.23%) Nintex
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) Sitecore