The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSBuild over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 31 24 29
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 9 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 4.433% 2.162% 1.210%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.07% 11.76% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
Average daily rate £400 £475 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
56 34 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 27.59% 18.38% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 14 14
Average daily rate £350 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% -10.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSBuild
Hampshire

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MSBuild across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Basingstoke MSBuild Jobs Demand Trend

MSBuild
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MSBuild across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MSBuild Daily Rate Trend

MSBuild
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MSBuild also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) IIS
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (100.00%) Maven
1 9 (100.00%) Java EE
1 9 (100.00%) ESB
1 9 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 9 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 9 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 9 (100.00%) soapUI
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Release Management
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) SQL

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MSBuild also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Java EE
1 9 (100.00%) soapUI
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) IIS
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (100.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Maven
1 9 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 9 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Release Manager
1 7 (77.78%) Build Manager
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Release Management
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL