MSI Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 135 125 121
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +40
Contract jobs citing MSI 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.086% 0.054% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.76% 0.37% 0.72%
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%
Central London median daily rate £600 £314 £450
% change year-on-year +91.39% -30.33% -5.26%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 263 268 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.27% 14.54% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 176 189
10th Percentile £409 £345 £404
25th Percentile £463 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £657 £644 £690
90th Percentile £738 £722 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £37.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

MSI job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MSI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MSI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MSI

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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