MSBuild Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft MSBuild
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring MSBuild skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.18% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 235 117 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.64% 27.46% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 81 56
10th Percentile £367 £385 £378
25th Percentile £447 £423 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -25.04%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £601
90th Percentile £688 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% -25.19%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in Sheffield

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft