Microsoft MSBuild
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MSBuild skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSBuild over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 922 1158
Rank change year-on-year +45 +236 -275
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 19 48 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.046% 0.048%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18 13 68
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £82,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +43.48% -2.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £106,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £112,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £82,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +83.33% +12.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK

MSBuild is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MSBuild as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MSBuild in the UK

MSBuild
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSBuild.

Salary trend for MSBuild in the UK

MSBuild
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSBuild over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MSBuild in the UK

MSBuild
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +24 19 £55,000 -33.33% 2
England +83 18 £55,000 -33.33% 3
South East +39 13 £55,000 -33.33% 2
Work from Home +91 8 £85,000 +3.03% 3
North of England +51 3 £52,500 -4.55%
North West +12 3 £52,500 -4.55%
West Midlands +27 2 £65,000 +18.18%
Midlands +9 2 £65,000 +18.18%
Scotland - 1 - -

MSBuild
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (52.63%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) SaaS
4 4 (21.05%) NuGet
5 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure App Service
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) LAN
1 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (21.05%) WAN
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
2 11 (57.89%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (47.37%) Visual Studio
4 8 (42.11%) JIRA
4 8 (42.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (42.11%) TeamCity
5 4 (21.05%) Subversion
5 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) .NET Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (57.89%) ASP.NET
3 9 (47.37%) CSS
4 8 (42.11%) HTML
4 8 (42.11%) JSON
4 8 (42.11%) REST
4 8 (42.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 8 (42.11%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) gRPC
5 1 (5.26%) Next.js
5 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.26%) Sass
5 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (26.32%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) MVC
3 8 (42.11%) User Stories
4 5 (26.32%) Fintech
5 4 (21.05%) Insurtech
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Change Control
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Science
7 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 1 (5.26%) API Design
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C#
2 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) MCSE
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
2 3 (15.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) Sitecore