Microsoft MSBuild
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MSBuild skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MSBuild over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 866 939
Rank change year-on-year +222 +73 +208
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 40 19 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.019% 0.046%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% 0.20% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 36 18 13
10th Percentile £78,125 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +43.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £106,250
90th Percentile - £87,500 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +83.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MSBuild as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MSBuild in the UK

MSBuild
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSBuild.

Salary trend for MSBuild in the UK

MSBuild
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSBuild within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +227 39 £82,500 +50.00% 1
England +208 37 £82,500 +50.00% 1
South East +136 36 £82,500 +50.00% 1
Work from Home +200 27 £82,500 -2.94% 1
Scotland +130 3 - -
London - 1 - -

MSBuild
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Solr
1 3 (7.50%) CMS
1 3 (7.50%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (7.50%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (92.50%) Azure DevOps
2 37 (92.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 36 (90.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 35 (87.50%) SonarCloud
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (87.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) MS Access
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (95.00%) Visual Studio
2 36 (90.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 35 (87.50%) Git
3 35 (87.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (7.50%) webpack
5 1 (2.50%) NUnit
General
1 24 (60.00%) Retail
2 3 (7.50%) Marketing
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (90.00%) Architect
1 36 (90.00%) Technical Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (2.50%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
1 40 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 40 (100.00%) CSS
2 37 (92.50%) HTML
3 36 (90.00%) Bootstrap
3 36 (90.00%) JSON
4 35 (87.50%) gRPC
4 35 (87.50%) REST
4 35 (87.50%) XML
5 3 (7.50%) Next.js
5 3 (7.50%) Sass
5 3 (7.50%) Vue
6 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.50%) NHibernate
6 1 (2.50%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.50%) WCF
6 1 (2.50%) Web Services
6 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) DevOps
1 37 (92.50%) Microservices
2 36 (90.00%) API Integration
2 36 (90.00%) Code Quality
2 36 (90.00%) Design Patterns
2 36 (90.00%) Event-Driven
2 36 (90.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 36 (90.00%) MVC
3 35 (87.50%) Data Encryption
3 35 (87.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 35 (87.50%) Performance Testing
4 25 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (7.50%) API Design
6 3 (7.50%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.50%) Personalization
6 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
1 40 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (87.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (90.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 35 (87.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.50%) Optimizely
1 3 (7.50%) Sitecore
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle