The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSBuild over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 191 190 236
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +46
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 10 23 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.159% 0.296% 0.102%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.276% 3.544% 0.993%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 8
Average daily rate £415 £500 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.00% +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £335 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £525 £600
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
784 649 1007
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.342% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 476 751
Average daily rate £413 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £15.80 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.20 £39.60 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSBuild
London

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MSBuild Daily Rate Trend

MSBuild
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MSBuild across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London MSBuild Daily Rate Histogram

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 13 (65.00%) Banking
2 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 9 (45.00%) C#
4 8 (40.00%) CruiseControl
5 7 (35.00%) Subversion
5 7 (35.00%) NUnit
5 7 (35.00%) Investment Banking
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (30.00%) MSI
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (30.00%) SQL
6 6 (30.00%) Oracle
6 6 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (30.00%) Asset Management
7 5 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 5 (25.00%) TeamCity
7 5 (25.00%) Release Management
7 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (25.00%) Ant
7 5 (25.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (20.00%) Java
8 4 (20.00%) WPF
8 4 (20.00%) Degree
8 4 (20.00%) WiX
9 3 (15.00%) Change Control
9 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (15.00%) HP Quality Center

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (20.00%) WPF
4 3 (15.00%) WF
4 3 (15.00%) J2EE
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) XML
5 2 (10.00%) ASP
5 2 (10.00%) WinForms
5 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (10.00%) WCF
5 2 (10.00%) LINQ
5 2 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (10.00%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (5.000%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (5.000%) Task Parallel Library
6 1 (5.000%) jQuery
6 1 (5.000%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Google App Engine
2 1 (5.000%) MSMQ
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) CruiseControl
2 7 (35.00%) Subversion
2 7 (35.00%) NUnit
3 6 (30.00%) MSI
3 6 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (25.00%) Ant
4 5 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 4 (20.00%) WiX
6 3 (15.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
6 3 (15.00%) Maven
6 3 (15.00%) MSTest
6 3 (15.00%) FitNesse
7 2 (10.00%) InstallShield
8 1 (5.000%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 1 (5.000%) NCover
8 1 (5.000%) JIRA
8 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (65.00%) Banking
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Front Office
5 2 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Build Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Build Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Agile Test Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Integration Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Release Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Integration Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) WPF Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior .NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior .NET Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Build Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.000%) Kindle
3 1 (5.000%) W3C
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (25.00%) Release Management
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Wealth Management
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Workflow
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
4 3 (15.00%) User Experience Design
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (10.00%) Game Development
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.000%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) Lua
5 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.000%) Perl
5 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VBScript
5 1 (5.000%) VB
5 1 (5.000%) XAML
5 1 (5.000%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.000%) MCSE
3 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.000%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) HP
2 3 (15.00%) Charles River
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.000%) Sybase
City, London
The successful Software Release / Build Engineer will be working in a large corporate environment, drawing on previous experience to develop and rollout software build and deployment processes and...
Connectus
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
The successful Software Release and Build Engineer will need to have proven experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)... *Technical experience of software source control solutions: Microsoft Team...
Connectus
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
My Client is currently seeking an experienced Build Engineer who has expert knowledge of TFS - Team Foundation Server administration and configuration. You will be working with TFS AND...
Rate: £270 - £375 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013