MSBuild Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 327 360 378
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +18
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 58 46 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.269% 0.172% 0.189%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.226% 1.793% 1.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 40
Average daily rate £400 £500 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £335 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £550 £550
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 2606 2565 3545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.07% 9.578% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 1739 2422
Average daily rate £415 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.35% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £22.10 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London MSBuild Daily Rate Histogram

MSBuild
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MSBuild across the London region.

London MSBuild Hourly Rate Trend

MSBuild
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -1 10 £415 -17.00%
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 61 (69.32%) C#
2 53 (60.23%) .NET
3 42 (47.73%) Microsoft
4 40 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 38 (43.18%) Visual Studio
6 34 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (35.23%) CruiseControl
8 30 (34.09%) Windows
9 27 (30.68%) SQL
9 27 (30.68%) TeamCity
10 25 (28.41%) SQL Server
11 22 (25.00%) Java
11 22 (25.00%) NUnit
12 19 (21.59%) Finance
12 19 (21.59%) Oracle
13 18 (20.45%) ASP.NET
13 18 (20.45%) Banking
14 16 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (18.18%) XML
14 16 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (18.18%) Lua
15 15 (17.05%) Subversion
15 15 (17.05%) Fixed Income
16 14 (15.91%) MS Excel
16 14 (15.91%) HP
16 14 (15.91%) Penetration Testing
16 14 (15.91%) OWASP
17 13 (14.77%) Windows Azure
17 13 (14.77%) C++
17 13 (14.77%) MSI

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 53 (60.23%) .NET
2 18 (20.45%) ASP.NET
3 16 (18.18%) XML
4 12 (13.64%) Spring
4 12 (13.64%) WPF
5 11 (12.50%) SAML
6 10 (11.36%) .NET Framework
6 10 (11.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (9.091%) WCF
8 7 (7.955%) NHibernate
8 7 (7.955%) Silverlight
9 6 (6.818%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (6.818%) XML Schema
9 6 (6.818%) ASP
9 6 (6.818%) StructureMap
10 5 (5.682%) J2EE
10 5 (5.682%) WF
10 5 (5.682%) WebSphere
11 4 (4.545%) HTML
11 4 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (14.77%) Windows Azure
2 12 (13.64%) Google App Engine
3 10 (11.36%) IIS
4 6 (6.818%) Documentum
5 4 (4.545%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.409%) MSMQ
6 3 (3.409%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (2.273%) ESB
8 1 (1.136%) Umbraco
8 1 (1.136%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 14 (15.91%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.682%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 11 (12.50%) Internet
2 8 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.955%) SQL Server 2005
2 7 (7.955%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (7.955%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.409%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.409%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (3.409%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.136%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 40 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 38 (43.18%) Visual Studio
3 31 (35.23%) CruiseControl
4 27 (30.68%) TeamCity
5 22 (25.00%) NUnit
6 15 (17.05%) Subversion
7 13 (14.77%) MSI
8 11 (12.50%) WiX
9 9 (10.23%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 7 (7.955%) Ant
10 7 (7.955%) NMock
11 6 (6.818%) MSTest
12 4 (4.545%) Rhino Mocks
13 3 (3.409%) FitNesse
13 3 (3.409%) Eclipse
13 3 (3.409%) InstallShield
13 3 (3.409%) Maven
13 3 (3.409%) Jenkins
14 2 (2.273%) Moq
14 2 (2.273%) Hudson
General
1 19 (21.59%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Banking
3 12 (13.64%) Games
4 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.091%) Back Office
6 6 (6.818%) Marketing
7 4 (4.545%) Front Office
8 3 (3.409%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.136%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.136%) Retail
9 1 (1.136%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (40.91%) Developer
2 26 (29.55%) Analyst
2 26 (29.55%) Build Engineer
3 14 (15.91%) Application Security Analyst
3 14 (15.91%) C# Developer
3 14 (15.91%) Security Analyst
4 11 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 6 (6.818%) Systems Analyst
5 6 (6.818%) Build Manager
5 6 (6.818%) Integration Analyst
5 6 (6.818%) Systems Integration Analyst
5 6 (6.818%) Agile C# Developer
6 5 (5.682%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.545%) Software Build Engineer
7 4 (4.545%) Release Engineer
7 4 (4.545%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.545%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.545%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.409%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 15 (17.05%) Fixed Income
3 7 (7.955%) Inversion of Control
4 6 (6.818%) RIA
5 3 (3.409%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.409%) W3C
6 2 (2.273%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.273%) Online Games
6 2 (2.273%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.136%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.136%) Kindle
7 1 (1.136%) Open Source
7 1 (1.136%) Equities
7 1 (1.136%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Windows
2 4 (4.545%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.409%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (3.409%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.136%) Linux
4 1 (1.136%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
2 16 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (15.91%) Penetration Testing
3 14 (15.91%) OWASP
4 12 (13.64%) Game Development
4 12 (13.64%) OO
5 11 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 11 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 11 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 9 (10.23%) Release Management
6 9 (10.23%) MVC
7 8 (9.091%) Workflow
7 8 (9.091%) Asset Management
8 7 (7.955%) Software Engineering
8 7 (7.955%) TDD
8 7 (7.955%) OOD
8 7 (7.955%) Configuration Management
8 7 (7.955%) Change Control
9 6 (6.818%) Extreme Programming
10 5 (5.682%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (69.32%) C#
2 27 (30.68%) SQL
3 22 (25.00%) Java
4 16 (18.18%) Lua
5 13 (14.77%) C++
6 5 (5.682%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.545%) VBScript
7 4 (4.545%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.409%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.409%) C
8 3 (3.409%) VB
8 3 (3.409%) VB6
9 2 (2.273%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.136%) Perl
10 1 (1.136%) Python
10 1 (1.136%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.136%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (5.682%) Degree
2 3 (3.409%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.136%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.136%) LPIC
4 1 (1.136%) MCAD
4 1 (1.136%) MCSD
4 1 (1.136%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.409%) QA
2 1 (1.136%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.136%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.136%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) CA SiteMinder
2 3 (3.409%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (3.409%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 42 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.59%) Oracle
3 14 (15.91%) HP
4 12 (13.64%) Google
5 11 (12.50%) CA
6 4 (4.545%) Charles River
7 3 (3.409%) VMware
8 2 (2.273%) JBoss
9 1 (1.136%) Typemock
9 1 (1.136%) Sybase
Software Release / Build Engineer
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
Software Release and Build Engineer
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
Build Engineer - TFS - Team Foundation Server
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
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