MSI Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring MSI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 159 -
Rank change year-on-year -75 - -
Contract jobs citing MSI 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.070% 0.061% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.44% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £509 £450 -
25th Percentile £510 £451 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £452 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% - -
75th Percentile £535 £453 -
90th Percentile £536 £454 -
England median daily rate £485 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +2.11% +18.75% -20.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 904 511 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.74% 15.64% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 346 388
10th Percentile £339 £325 £368
25th Percentile £400 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £619 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 16
10th Percentile £39.11 £54.33 £36.94
25th Percentile £48.36 £67.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +62.41% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £65.94
90th Percentile £80.05 £80.70 £79.88
England median hourly rate £67.00 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.93% +1.20% +1.63%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

MSI job vacancy trend in the North of England

MSI
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MSI

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MSI

MSI
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
North West -26 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £521 -
MSI
England

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InstallShield
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Identity
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Ivanti