MSBuild Job Trends

Microsoft MSBuild
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MSBuild skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 691 729
Rank change year-on-year +35 +38 +279
Permanent jobs citing MSBuild 10 51 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.075% 0.015%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.86% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 42 5
10th Percentile £59,750 - -
25th Percentile £74,688 £77,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +43.48% -

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 3,688 5,958 6,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.27% 8.75% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 3,304 5,625
10th Percentile £32,125 £37,574 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%

MSBuild
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MSBuild job vacancy trend in the UK

MSBuild
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSBuild.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSBuild

MSBuild
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSBuild over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram 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 7 November 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
England +62 10 £82,500 +3.13% 13
Work from Home +26 9 £82,500 +3.13% 4
UK excluding London +24 8 £82,500 - 9
South East -5 8 £82,500 - 8
London +43 1 £65,000 -18.75% 7

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (70.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (70.00%) SonarCloud
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) IPv6
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (70.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) CMake
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
1 7 (70.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (70.00%) Bootstrap
3 7 (70.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) gRPC
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 7 (70.00%) JSON
3 7 (70.00%) REST
3 7 (70.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 7 (70.00%) API Integration
3 7 (70.00%) Code Quality
3 7 (70.00%) Data Encryption
3 7 (70.00%) Design Patterns
3 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (70.00%) MVC
3 7 (70.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (70.00%) Performance Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (70.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) SAP