MSI Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 133 130
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +37
Contract jobs citing MSI 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.079% 0.049% 0.087%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 0.34% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £314 £450
Median % change year-on-year +91.39% -30.33% -5.26%
London median daily rate £600 £475 £353
% change year-on-year +26.32% +34.75% -25.79%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 280 291 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.05% 14.31% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 194 199
10th Percentile £412 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £709 £775
London median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £52.88 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £77.95 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

MSI job vacancy trend in Central London

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MSI

MSI
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
City of London -10 2 £600 +91.39% 1
MSI
London

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) F5