MSI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 99 144 142
Rank change year-on-year +45 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing MSI 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.037% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 0.39% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -44.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £772
90th Percentile - - £799
South East median daily rate £675 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +42.11% -20.83% -

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MSI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for MSI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSI in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for MSI in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +33 3 £400 +14.29%
MSI
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) AdminStudio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) ThinApp
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ivanti