MSI Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 341 381 490
Rank change year-on-year +40 +109 +94
Contract jobs citing MSI 12 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.056% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 0.43% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 1
10th Percentile £391 £300 -
25th Percentile £428 £305 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £378 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.14% -20.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £425 £488
90th Percentile £519 £438 -
England median daily rate £500 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -24.00% +21.21%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MSI in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MSI in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSI in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MSI in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for MSI in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +10 7 £500 -6.98% 1
MSI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Modbus
1 4 (33.33%) MQTT
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) AdminStudio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Packager
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SCCM Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) EFT
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Application Packaging
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) API Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Change Control
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Software Distribution
4 1 (8.33%) Software Licensing
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Globalscape
3 1 (8.33%) Symantec