The first table below looks at the demand for MSBuild skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSBuild over the 3 months to 21 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft MSBuild
Rank 424 421 351
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -70
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 17 17 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.077% 0.072% 0.302%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.578% 0.513% 2.122%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 58
Average salary £41,000 £45,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.89% +30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,700 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +18.05%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2941 3314 3204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.26% 13.96% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2543 2959 2881
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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

South East MSBuild Salary Trend

MSBuild
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MSBuild across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East MSBuild Salary Histogram

MSBuild
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxfordshire - 8 £43,750 -
Surrey +16 6 £46,250 -4.63%
Berkshire +1 1 £37,500 -16.66%
Middlesex -5 1 £35,000 -23.91%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £30,000 -
MSBuild
England

MSBuild
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild.

1 17 (77.27%) C#
2 16 (72.73%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 13 (59.09%) SQL Server
4 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
5 10 (45.45%) .NET
5 10 (45.45%) Visual Studio
5 10 (45.45%) Python
5 10 (45.45%) QA
5 10 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
6 8 (36.36%) CMake
6 8 (36.36%) Linux
6 8 (36.36%) IIS
6 8 (36.36%) Perl
7 7 (31.82%) VMware
7 7 (31.82%) Information Management
8 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2008
10 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
10 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
10 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
11 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
11 3 (13.64%) DNS
11 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
11 3 (13.64%) Finance

MSBuild
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MSBuild. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.091%) Ajax
4 2 (9.091%) jQuery
4 2 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (4.545%) Web Services
5 1 (4.545%) XML
5 1 (4.545%) Flash
5 1 (4.545%) XHTML
5 1 (4.545%) COM+
5 1 (4.545%) ASP
5 1 (4.545%) HTML
5 1 (4.545%) AppFabric
5 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 1 (4.545%) WCF
5 1 (4.545%) LINQ
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) IIS
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.545%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.545%) Commerce Server
3 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (22.73%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (9.091%) MySQL
4 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Visual Studio
1 10 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (36.36%) CMake
3 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
4 3 (13.64%) MSTest
5 2 (9.091%) FinalBuilder
5 2 (9.091%) Subversion
5 2 (9.091%) Ant
6 1 (4.545%) MSI
6 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.545%) Hudson
6 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Marketing
2 2 (9.091%) Games
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Configuration Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Build Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Development Support Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Development Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 2 (9.091%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Programmer
4 1 (4.545%) Environment Manager
4 1 (4.545%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Release Manager
4 1 (4.545%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) SaaS
2 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 2 (9.091%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
2 7 (31.82%) Information Management
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (13.64%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (9.091%) Automated Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Release Management
5 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (9.091%) Build Automation
5 2 (9.091%) Change Management
5 2 (9.091%) Validation
5 2 (9.091%) ITIL
6 1 (4.545%) OO
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.545%) ETL
6 1 (4.545%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) C#
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 10 (45.45%) Python
4 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 8 (36.36%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
6 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.545%) C++
7 1 (4.545%) ActionScript
7 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.545%) VB
7 1 (4.545%) VB6
7 1 (4.545%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) vSphere
3 2 (9.091%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.545%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Perforce
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle
4 1 (4.545%) Telerik
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop and web (preferably ASP.Net) applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Technical: The primary development language is C#... Good experience with .Net 3.5. C++ competence with Win32 applications will be a bonus. ASP.Net experience with AJAX will...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + YES
Posted: 8 May 2013
Guildford, South East
Make, MSBuild, Ant, Visual Studio)* Knowledge of programming in scripting languages and environments such as Python, Powershell etc.* Knowledge of Perforce (administration knowledge a distinct plus)* Knowledge of...
Salary: £30000 - £52000 per annum + Competitive Benefits.
Posted: 14 May 2013