Microsoft MSBuild
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MSBuild skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSBuild over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 722 978 1064
Rank change year-on-year +256 +86 -319
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 11 112 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.089% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.48% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 41 28
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +6.52% +18.56% +21.25%

All Development Application Skills
UK

MSBuild is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 7,032 23,283 26,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.00% 18.50% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,385 12,919 16,378
10th Percentile £42,141 £39,271 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% +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 8 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 29 November 2023. 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 +212 11 £61,250 +6.52% 7
Wales - 7 - -
Work from Home +235 4 £61,250 +6.52% 3
England +213 4 £61,250 +6.52% 8
North of England +132 2 £57,500 - 2
Midlands +130 2 £65,000 +6.12%
West Midlands +117 2 £65,000 +6.12%
North West +110 2 £57,500 - 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 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
1 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure App Service
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (63.64%) Redis
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Visual Studio
1 7 (63.64%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Applications Support
1 7 (63.64%) Applications Support Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
1 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
2 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
2 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET MVC
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Change Control
3 7 (63.64%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (63.64%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
3 7 (63.64%) MVC
3 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Remedy
2 2 (18.18%) VMware