MSI Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring MSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSI 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.45% - 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.76% - 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £461
25th Percentile - - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £563
75th Percentile - - £653
90th Percentile - - £674
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £400 - £563

All Development Application Skills
Cambridge

MSI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 21 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 9.42% 15.79% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 16
10th Percentile £396 £359 £358
25th Percentile £552 £455 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £544 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +22.19% -9.87%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £539
90th Percentile £630 £700 £619
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £565 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +7.62% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MSI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

MSI job vacancy trend in Cambridge

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MSI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MSI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MSI

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow