MSBuild Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft MSBuild
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 265 132 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.27% 26.88% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 95 57
10th Percentile £358 £386 £378
25th Percentile £432 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% -25.19%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £600
90th Percentile £687 £640 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

MSBuild
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Sheffield - 2 £550 -
MSBuild
Yorkshire

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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