The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSBuild over the 3 months to 18 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 189 219 231
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +12
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 36 23 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.445% 0.229% 0.218%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.181% 2.696% 2.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 10
Average daily rate £340 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £340 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
-15.31% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
861 853 1110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.65% 8.491% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 423 481
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £258 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 111
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxfordshire - 12 £335 -
Surrey +9 8 £225 -43.75%
Berkshire +22 2 £263 - 2
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 33 (71.74%) C#
2 25 (54.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 24 (52.17%) Visual Studio
4 20 (43.48%) PowerShell
5 17 (36.96%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (34.78%) SQL Server
7 13 (28.26%) Windows
8 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
9 11 (23.91%) Release Management
10 10 (21.74%) ESB
10 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 10 (21.74%) BizTalk Server
10 10 (21.74%) Ant
10 10 (21.74%) IIS
10 10 (21.74%) .NET
10 10 (21.74%) Games
11 9 (19.57%) Maven
11 9 (19.57%) Java EE
11 9 (19.57%) Python
11 9 (19.57%) TeamCity
11 9 (19.57%) Git (software)
11 9 (19.57%) Test Scripting
11 9 (19.57%) soapUI
12 8 (17.39%) SharePoint
13 7 (15.22%) SOAP
13 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
13 7 (15.22%) Banking
14 6 (13.04%) TDD
15 5 (10.87%) Finance

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (21.74%) .NET
2 9 (19.57%) Java EE
2 9 (19.57%) soapUI
3 7 (15.22%) SOAP
4 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
4 5 (10.87%) CSS
5 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (6.522%) NHibernate
6 3 (6.522%) Web Services
7 2 (4.348%) WCF
7 2 (4.348%) jQuery
7 2 (4.348%) HTML5
7 2 (4.348%) Middleware
7 2 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (2.174%) AppFabric
8 1 (2.174%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (2.174%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.174%) XML
8 1 (2.174%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.174%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (21.74%) ESB
1 10 (21.74%) IIS
2 8 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.348%) Windows Azure
3 2 (4.348%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) MySQL
3 1 (2.174%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 24 (52.17%) Visual Studio
3 10 (21.74%) Ant
4 9 (19.57%) Maven
4 9 (19.57%) TeamCity
4 9 (19.57%) Git (software)
5 4 (8.696%) CruiseControl
6 3 (6.522%) NUnit
6 3 (6.522%) WiX
7 2 (4.348%) SpecFlow
7 2 (4.348%) JIRA
8 1 (2.174%) Subversion
8 1 (2.174%) InstallShield
8 1 (2.174%) MSTest
General
1 10 (21.74%) Games
2 7 (15.22%) Banking
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.174%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Release Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Build Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Build Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 4 (8.696%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.522%) Consultant
6 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.348%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.348%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET Programmer
8 1 (2.174%) C# Programmer
8 1 (2.174%) Software Consultant
8 1 (2.174%) Environment Manager
8 1 (2.174%) Release Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Server Specialist
8 1 (2.174%) .NET Programmer
8 1 (2.174%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
1 2 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (23.91%) Release Management
3 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 9 (19.57%) Test Scripting
5 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.04%) TDD
7 5 (10.87%) Build Automation
8 4 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (8.696%) Configuration Management
9 3 (6.522%) MVC
9 3 (6.522%) Scrum
9 3 (6.522%) Automated Testing
9 3 (6.522%) Game Development
10 2 (4.348%) SOA
10 2 (4.348%) Validation
10 2 (4.348%) Migration
11 1 (2.174%) ITIL
11 1 (2.174%) UML
11 1 (2.174%) Unit Testing
11 1 (2.174%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (71.74%) C#
2 20 (43.48%) PowerShell
3 9 (19.57%) Python
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 3 (6.522%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.348%) C
6 2 (4.348%) C++
6 2 (4.348%) Java
6 2 (4.348%) Lua
7 1 (2.174%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.348%) Perforce
2 2 (4.348%) Google
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