Hertfordshire MSI Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MSI over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Brackley Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Eastleigh England Farnborough Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent King's Lynn Leeds London Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Romford Rotherham Shropshire South East South Yorkshire Surrey UK Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	165	173
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.136 %	2.148 %
Salaries quoted	1	8
Average minimum salary	£25,000	£30,000
Average salary	£27,500	£35,000
% change on same period last year	-21.42 %
Average maximum salary	£30,000	£40,000
UK excluding London average salary	£37,370	£33,487
% change on same period last year	+11.59 %
Development Applications Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	352	419
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.189 %	0.175 %
Salaries quoted	306	347
Average minimum salary	£34,300	£36,908
Average salary	£36,588	£39,494
% change on same period last year	-7.35 %
Average maximum salary	£38,876	£42,080
UK excluding London average salary	£35,045	£36,008
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
MSI East of England

MSI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MSI across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

MSI
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MSI across the Hertfordshire region.

MSI
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-	1	£27,500	-

MSI East of England

MSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing MSI also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MSI.

1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 7 (63.64 %) QA 3 6 (54.55 %) Application Packaging 3 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory 4 4 (36.36 %) HTML 5 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 5 3 (27.27 %) CSS 5 3 (27.27 %) XML 5 3 (27.27 %) XSL 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (27.27 %) CMS 5 3 (27.27 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 5 3 (27.27 %) Interwoven 5 3 (27.27 %) TeamSite

5 3 (27.27 %) Release Management 6 2 (18.18 %) WinRunner 6 2 (18.18 %) TestPartner 6 2 (18.18 %) .NET 6 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 6 2 (18.18 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (9.091 %) C 7 1 (9.091 %) C++ 7 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL 7 1 (9.091 %) VB 7 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 7 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 7 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio

MSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing MSI also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (54.55 %) Application Packaging 2 4 (36.36 %) HTML 3 3 (27.27 %) CSS 3 3 (27.27 %) XML 3 3 (27.27 %) XSL 4 2 (18.18 %) .NET 4 2 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (9.091 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) TeamSite 1 3 (27.27 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (18.18 %) WinRunner 1 2 (18.18 %) TestPartner 2 1 (9.091 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Applications Packager 1 6 (54.55 %) MSI Packager 2 3 (27.27 %) Release Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Tester 3 2 (18.18 %) Software Tester	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Service Delivery 1 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 1 3 (27.27 %) Release Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (9.091 %) Time Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (9.091 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C 1 1 (9.091 %) C++ 1 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL 1 1 (9.091 %) VB 1 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 1 1 (9.091 %) FoxPro (VFP)	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (63.64 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Interwoven 2 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft