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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 439 531
Rank change year-on-year -69 +92 +121
Contract jobs citing MSI 40 55 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.20% 0.069%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.86% 1.52% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 36 11
10th Percentile £334 £321 £350
25th Percentile £425 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £416 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -16.80% -
75th Percentile £529 £490 £543
90th Percentile £572 £553 £638
UK median daily rate £483 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +6.39% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £56.75 -

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 4,674 3,619 4,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.85% 13.25% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,238 2,259 3,099
10th Percentile £333 £333 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 194
10th Percentile £39.86 £46.18 £42.25
25th Percentile £54.50 £54.00 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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
South West +2 16 £450 -15.89%
West Midlands - 11 £483 -
Midlands - 11 £483 -
London -12 5 £525 +10.53% 2
North of England -46 4 £521 +14.81%
South East -52 2 £675 +92.86% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £521 -
North West - 2 - -
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 8 (20.00%) Tuxedo
1 8 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Entra ID
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
1 1 (2.50%) SMTP
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) InstallShield
2 6 (15.00%) AdminStudio
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) GCC
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Military
3 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) HR Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) HR Data Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SCCM Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) React
2 2 (5.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (7.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.00%) NHS
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.50%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Windows
2 17 (42.50%) Windows 10
3 8 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (5.00%) Android
4 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Application Packaging
2 11 (27.50%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
5 5 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 4 (10.00%) Change Management
6 4 (10.00%) Migration
6 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Analytics
7 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (7.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (7.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (7.50%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (7.50%) Identity Management
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (7.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) PowerShell
2 11 (27.50%) VBScript
3 9 (22.50%) SQL
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (15.00%) MCSA
5 2 (5.00%) MCITP
5 2 (5.00%) MCP
5 2 (5.00%) MCSE
5 2 (5.00%) MCTS
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.50%) UAG
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) SCCM
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
5 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.00%) WMI
6 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Fujitsu
3 3 (7.50%) Citrix
3 3 (7.50%) Cribl.io
3 3 (7.50%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) Sparx
5 1 (2.50%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.50%) Zscaler