MSBuild Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft MSBuild
England > London

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

 6 months to
6 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 360 394
Rank change year-on-year -32 +34 +130
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.013% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.088% 0.052% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
England median daily rate £538 £475 -
% change year-on-year +13.21% - -

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,267 1,921 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.19% 14.00% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,242 1,746
10th Percentile £351 £341 £380
25th Percentile £421 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.61% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £507 £538
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.58% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.64
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in London

MSBuild
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MSBuild.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft