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 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 765 1067
Rank change year-on-year +21 +302 -21
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 46 12 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.020% 0.068%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.15% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 37 6 43
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £61,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £64,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +43.48% - +27.78%

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 6,752 8,027 30,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 13.26% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 6,001 14,052
10th Percentile £37,574 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,539 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.53% +5.45% +10.00%

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 5 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 11 October 2024. 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
England 0 46 £80,000 +39.13% 9
UK excluding London +3 40 £82,500 +43.48% 7
South East - 40 £82,500 - 7
Work from Home +57 39 £80,000 +39.13% 10
London - 6 £80,000 - 2

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 2 (4.35%) IIS
Business Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) Azure
1 46 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 31 (67.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 31 (67.39%) Azure Service Bus
2 31 (67.39%) SonarCloud
3 1 (2.17%) NuGet
3 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (67.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 45 (97.83%) Team Foundation Server
2 32 (69.57%) Git
3 31 (67.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 31 (67.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) Subversion
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (30.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Architect
1 29 (63.04%) Technical Architect
2 16 (34.78%) Developer
3 14 (30.43%) .NET Developer
3 14 (30.43%) C# .NET Developer
3 14 (30.43%) C# Developer
3 14 (30.43%) CRM Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior
3 14 (30.43%) Senior .NET Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior C# Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior Developer
4 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (67.39%) ASP.NET
2 31 (67.39%) CSS
2 31 (67.39%) gRPC
2 31 (67.39%) HTML
2 31 (67.39%) JSON
2 31 (67.39%) REST
2 31 (67.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 31 (67.39%) XML
3 14 (30.43%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (67.39%) Microservices
2 31 (67.39%) MVC
3 29 (63.04%) API Integration
3 29 (63.04%) Code Quality
3 29 (63.04%) Data Encryption
3 29 (63.04%) Design Patterns
3 29 (63.04%) Event-Driven
3 29 (63.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 29 (63.04%) Performance Optimisation
3 29 (63.04%) Performance Testing
4 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (30.43%) BDD
5 14 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (30.43%) CRM
5 14 (30.43%) Release Management
5 14 (30.43%) TDD
5 14 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (2.17%) Agile
6 1 (2.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
2 31 (67.39%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (63.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft