MSI Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 470 476
Rank change year-on-year -93 +6 +94
Contract jobs citing MSI 53 41 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% 1.01% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 29
10th Percentile £398 £343 £300
25th Percentile £402 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £494 £380
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £609 £537 £432
90th Percentile £669 £600 £506
UK median daily rate £413 £494 £380
% change year-on-year -16.50% +30.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £58.49
UK median hourly rate £17.50 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +69.54%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,195 4,067 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.76% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,815 2,833
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 95 175
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.35 £36.45
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.41 £54.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MSI job vacancy trend in England

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSI

MSI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSI in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MSI in England

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MSI

MSI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -79 16 £650 +40.54% 11
South East -66 12 £625 +23.15% 6
South West -29 11 £413 +7.14%
North of England -57 10 £400 +10.34%
North West -38 8 £400 -11.11%
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
East of England -20 1 £400 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire -44 1 £200 -27.27%
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £275 -
MSI
UK

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) Azure
2 17 (32.08%) Entra ID
3 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.43%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.66%) SaaS
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) AWS
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 3 (5.66%) DNS
3 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 2 (3.77%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.89%) DHCP
4 1 (1.89%) LAN
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.89%) VLAN
4 1 (1.89%) WAN
4 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Git
1 11 (20.75%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) InstallShield
3 2 (3.77%) AdminStudio
3 2 (3.77%) Fiddler
3 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.89%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) German Language
6 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Applications Packager
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.55%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Testing Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Administrator
9 2 (3.77%) Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) IT Administrator
9 2 (3.77%) Lead
9 2 (3.77%) Lead Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Security Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) .NET
1 13 (24.53%) .NET Framework
1 13 (24.53%) REST
2 12 (22.64%) Terraform
3 11 (20.75%) .NET Core
3 11 (20.75%) ATL
3 11 (20.75%) COM
3 11 (20.75%) CSS
3 11 (20.75%) CSS3
3 11 (20.75%) GeoJSON
3 11 (20.75%) HTML
3 11 (20.75%) HTML5
3 11 (20.75%) MFC
3 11 (20.75%) RESTful
3 11 (20.75%) WPF
4 7 (13.21%) Software Packaging
5 4 (7.55%) JSON
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (3.77%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Onboarding
2 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
3 9 (16.98%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) CMDB
5 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.77%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.77%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) BYOD
6 1 (1.89%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.89%) EPoS
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.89%) Life Science
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (84.91%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.89%) Android
5 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.89%) Debian
5 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Application Packaging
2 19 (35.85%) Agile
3 16 (30.19%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.19%) Deployment Automation
4 13 (24.53%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) API Design
5 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
5 11 (20.75%) Dependency Management
5 11 (20.75%) Design Patterns
5 11 (20.75%) DevSecOps
5 11 (20.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 11 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (20.75%) Knowledge Transfer
5 11 (20.75%) Microservices
5 11 (20.75%) SOLID
5 11 (20.75%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (20.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (20.75%) Virtual Environments
6 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) PowerShell
2 12 (22.64%) Python
3 11 (20.75%) Bicep
3 11 (20.75%) C#
3 11 (20.75%) JavaScript
3 11 (20.75%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.66%) VBScript
5 2 (3.77%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) Accessibility
1 11 (20.75%) NCSC
1 11 (20.75%) WCAG
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 16 (30.19%) Active Directory
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft App-V
3 11 (20.75%) Docker
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.89%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) SCCM
2 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
4 7 (13.21%) WMI
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (77.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Citrix
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Tanium
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.89%) F5
5 1 (1.89%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.89%) Juniper
5 1 (1.89%) NetApp
5 1 (1.89%) Nexthink