MSI Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring MSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing MSI 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% - 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.41%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 204 161 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.24% 15.85% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 116 81
10th Percentile £373 £339 £324
25th Percentile £402 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +7.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £538
90th Percentile £666 £656 £575
North West median daily rate £500 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +16.28% -9.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £24.15 £70.75 -
25th Percentile £59.00 £71.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £76.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +57.89% -30.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.81 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £78.38 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £72.58 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.65% +57.17% -

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

MSI job vacancy trend in Manchester

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MSI

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Ivanti