MSBuild Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft MSBuild
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding 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 471 - 359
Rank change year-on-year - - +61
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% - 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £461 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £523 - £513
90th Percentile £539 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,952 2,322 2,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.47% 14.87% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,769 1,585 1,276
10th Percentile £330 £310 £338
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £584
90th Percentile £640 £635 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 93 154
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £55.87
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MSBuild
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSBuild in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MSBuild in the UK excluding London

MSBuild
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Yorkshire - 4 £494 -
North of England - 4 £494 -
MSBuild
UK

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft