The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSBuild over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 45 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.415% - 0.775%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.882% - 8.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £363 £388
% change year-on-year
-6.20% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 50 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 7.054% 7.764% 8.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 27
Average daily rate £425 £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £186 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £378 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £37.50 £49.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -23.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
MSBuild
West Midlands

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham MSBuild Daily Rate Trend

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) MSF
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Foundation
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) RUP

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) WF
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Foundation
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) CruiseControl
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) MSF
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) RUP
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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