MSI Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring MSI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing MSI 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.14% - 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
North West median daily rate £450 - £500

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 88 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.60% 13.10% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 87
10th Percentile £325 £311 £326
25th Percentile £358 £376 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -1.10% +17.10%
75th Percentile £492 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £613 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing MSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for MSI in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSI in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for MSI in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSI in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for MSI in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 1 £450 -
MSI
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft