MSBuild Contract Job Trends

Microsoft MSBuild
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSBuild 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,096 4,634 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,104 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.22 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in the UK

MSBuild
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

MSBuild
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

MSBuild
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England - 6 £550 -
UK excluding London - 3 £550 -
North of England - 3 £550 -
London - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -

MSBuild
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) npm
2 3 (50.00%) Yarn
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (50.00%) webpack
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (50.00%) JWT
2 3 (50.00%) React
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) Swagger
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (16.67%) NancyFx
4 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Runbook
2 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Dependency Management
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft