MSBuild Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft MSBuild
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MSBuild skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.042% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £650 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

MSBuild falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 296 286 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.35% 15.03% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 203 197
10th Percentile £363 £352 £363
25th Percentile £457 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £649 £642 £688
90th Percentile £738 £710 £785
London median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.44% +20.00% -44.24%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MSBuild relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MSBuild job vacancy trend in Central London

MSBuild
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSBuild.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 - - 1
MSBuild
London

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) OpenUP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CodeQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow