The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank - 147 144
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 0 3 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.120% 0.700%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.593% 4.244%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 19
Average salary - £38,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +18.05%
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
372 506 542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.16% 20.21% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 303 384 478
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £34,550 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £54,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSBuild
East of England

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire MSBuild Salary Trend

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) WatiN
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (100.00%) MSTest
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (100.00%) WatiN
1 3 (100.00%) MSTest
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) OOD
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft