MSI Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSI 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.26% - 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.55% - 4.55%
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
East of England median daily rate £400 - £500

All Development Application Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 22 23 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.71% 9.16% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 21
10th Percentile £400 £397 £310
25th Percentile £513 £455 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £616 £535
90th Percentile £625 £700 £563
East of England median daily rate £492 £475 £445
% change year-on-year +3.58% +6.74% -13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.30
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - £66.55
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

MSI job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing MSI

MSI
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £400 -
MSI
East of England

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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