The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 235 308 324
Rank change year-on-year
+73 +16
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 82 18 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.703% 0.137% 0.078%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.961% 1.305% 0.754%
Number of salaries quoted 65 18 9
Average salary £57,500 £51,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.19% -14.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £52,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £63,250 £71,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +18.05%
All Development Applications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1653 1379 1591
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 14.16% 10.49% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1423 1302 1467
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSBuild
London

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MSBuild across the City of London region.

City of London MSBuild Salary Trend

MSBuild
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSBuild across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London MSBuild Salary Histogram

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild.

1 130 (94.89%) .NET
2 122 (89.05%) C#
3 98 (71.53%) WCF
4 91 (66.42%) TDD
4 91 (66.42%) ASP.NET
5 88 (64.23%) SQL
6 81 (59.12%) Agile Software Development
6 81 (59.12%) Continuous Integration
7 77 (56.20%) Scrum
8 75 (54.74%) MVC
9 70 (51.09%) CSS
9 70 (51.09%) WPF
10 63 (45.99%) Unit Testing
11 62 (45.26%) JavaScript
12 60 (43.80%) ASP.NET MVC
13 55 (40.15%) SQL Server
14 53 (38.69%) BDD
15 52 (37.96%) jQuery
16 51 (37.23%) TeamCity
17 49 (35.77%) Degree
18 46 (33.58%) Inversion of Control
19 43 (31.39%) Silverlight
19 43 (31.39%) Subversion
20 42 (30.66%) Team Foundation Server
21 41 (29.93%) Computer Science
21 41 (29.93%) Finance
22 39 (28.47%) Ajax
22 39 (28.47%) OOP
23 37 (27.01%) Back Office
23 37 (27.01%) DHTML

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 130 (94.89%) .NET
2 98 (71.53%) WCF
3 91 (66.42%) ASP.NET
4 70 (51.09%) CSS
4 70 (51.09%) WPF
5 60 (43.80%) ASP.NET MVC
6 52 (37.96%) jQuery
7 43 (31.39%) Silverlight
8 39 (28.47%) Ajax
9 37 (27.01%) DHTML
9 37 (27.01%) ASP.NET MVC 2
9 37 (27.01%) Castle Windsor
9 37 (27.01%) Unity DI Container
10 36 (26.28%) HTML
11 27 (19.71%) .NET Framework
12 15 (10.95%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 11 (8.029%) Web Services
14 9 (6.569%) ASP.NET 2.0
15 6 (4.380%) HTML5
16 3 (2.190%) WF
Application Platforms
1 28 (20.44%) CMS
1 28 (20.44%) Umbraco
2 21 (15.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (9.489%) IIS
4 11 (8.029%) ActiveMQ
4 11 (8.029%) SharePoint Server
4 11 (8.029%) ESB
5 10 (7.299%) MSMQ
6 4 (2.920%) Apache
7 3 (2.190%) Windows Azure
7 3 (2.190%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (1.460%) SharePoint Foundation
8 2 (1.460%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.730%) Commerce Server
9 1 (0.730%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 19 (13.87%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.920%) MS Office
3 2 (1.460%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.730%) Sophis RISQUE
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.759%) BSS
2 2 (1.460%) NFC
3 1 (0.730%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (40.15%) SQL Server
2 28 (20.44%) MySQL
3 20 (14.60%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (12.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (11.68%) SQL Server 2005
6 14 (10.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (9.489%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 11 (8.029%) RDBMS
9 10 (7.299%) SQL Server 2000
10 3 (2.190%) OLTP
10 3 (2.190%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.460%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.460%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.730%) SQL Server 2012
12 1 (0.730%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 51 (37.23%) TeamCity
2 43 (31.39%) Subversion
3 42 (30.66%) Team Foundation Server
4 35 (25.55%) NUnit
5 34 (24.82%) Visual Studio
6 27 (19.71%) CruiseControl
7 14 (10.22%) Git (software)
8 12 (8.759%) JIRA
8 12 (8.759%) Selenium
8 12 (8.759%) Moq
9 11 (8.029%) SpecFlow
10 10 (7.299%) Hudson
11 4 (2.920%) MSTest
12 3 (2.190%) Jenkins
12 3 (2.190%) Maven
12 3 (2.190%) Ant
13 2 (1.460%) JUnit
13 2 (1.460%) Eclipse
13 2 (1.460%) Visual Studio Team System
13 2 (1.460%) InstallShield
General
1 41 (29.93%) Finance
2 37 (27.01%) Back Office
3 16 (11.68%) Banking
4 11 (8.029%) Retail
5 10 (7.299%) Front Office
6 9 (6.569%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.460%) Marketing
8 1 (0.730%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.730%) Legal
8 1 (0.730%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 108 (78.83%) Developer
2 55 (40.15%) .NET Developer
3 38 (27.74%) ASP.NET Developer
4 16 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Software Developer
6 12 (8.759%) Agile .NET Developer
7 11 (8.029%) SharePoint Developer
7 11 (8.029%) C# Developer
8 9 (6.569%) Configuration Manager
9 8 (5.839%) Build Engineer
10 6 (4.380%) Senior Build Engineer
10 6 (4.380%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (3.650%) Web Developer
11 5 (3.650%) Build Manager
12 4 (2.920%) C# Web Developer
13 3 (2.190%) GUI Developer
13 3 (2.190%) Software Engineer
13 3 (2.190%) Senior C# Developer
14 2 (1.460%) SQL Developer
14 2 (1.460%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 46 (33.58%) Inversion of Control
2 41 (29.93%) Computer Science
3 18 (13.14%) Hedge funds
3 18 (13.14%) Client/Server
4 13 (9.489%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (8.759%) Mathematics
6 9 (6.569%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.650%) Derivative
7 5 (3.650%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.190%) Replication
9 2 (1.460%) Java Card
9 2 (1.460%) Cryptography
9 2 (1.460%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.730%) Streaming Video
10 1 (0.730%) W3C
10 1 (0.730%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Windows
2 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (1.460%) Android
2 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (1.460%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.460%) Windows Phone 8
2 2 (1.460%) Windows Phone
3 1 (0.730%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.730%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.730%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (66.42%) TDD
2 81 (59.12%) Agile Software Development
2 81 (59.12%) Continuous Integration
3 77 (56.20%) Scrum
4 75 (54.74%) MVC
5 63 (45.99%) Unit Testing
6 53 (38.69%) BDD
7 39 (28.47%) OOP
8 37 (27.01%) Web Application Development
9 35 (25.55%) OO
10 18 (13.14%) MVVM
11 16 (11.68%) Multithreading
12 14 (10.22%) Use Case
12 14 (10.22%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (9.489%) OOA/OOD
14 12 (8.759%) E-Commerce
15 11 (8.029%) SOA
16 10 (7.299%) Configuration Management
16 10 (7.299%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (89.05%) C#
2 88 (64.23%) SQL
3 62 (45.26%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.14%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.68%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.380%) XAML
7 5 (3.650%) Java
8 4 (2.920%) VB
8 4 (2.920%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.460%) C++
10 1 (0.730%) Python
10 1 (0.730%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (35.77%) Degree
2 9 (6.569%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.460%) MCITP
3 2 (1.460%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.460%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.460%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.460%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.299%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.730%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.730%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.730%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.730%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.730%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) Syncfusion
3 11 (8.029%) Cerillion
3 11 (8.029%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 11 (8.029%) Nokia
3 11 (8.029%) Siemens
4 8 (5.839%) Reuters
4 8 (5.839%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.920%) Telerik
6 3 (2.190%) Red Gate
7 2 (1.460%) VMware
8 1 (0.730%) Sophis
8 1 (0.730%) Oracle
City of London
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the Microsoft .net framework including: *.net framework and C# *Visual Studio *ASP.Net *Silverlight (XAML with data bindings etc) *...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013