MSI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 383 393
Rank change year-on-year +60 +10 +107
Contract jobs citing MSI 16 16 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.077% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 0.71% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 46
10th Percentile £360 £373 £400
25th Percentile £400 £406 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £689 £563 £600
90th Percentile £693 £608 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £390 £500
% change year-on-year +28.21% -22.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £17.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for MSI in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for MSI in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MSI in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for MSI in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +38 6 £675 +42.11% 16
West Midlands - 6 £689 -
Midlands - 6 £689 -
North of England - 2 £363 - 1
South West +43 1 - -
East of England +29 1 £350 -
Yorkshire - 1 £275 - 1
North West - 1 £450 -
MSI
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) AdminStudio
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Applications Packager
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Software Deployment
2 6 (37.50%) Application Packaging
2 6 (37.50%) Software Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) Software Distribution
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
5 1 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.25%) Project Management
5 1 (6.25%) RBAC
5 1 (6.25%) Release Management
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum
5 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) PowerShell
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (18.75%) WMI
4 2 (12.50%) ThinApp
5 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) Tanium
2 2 (12.50%) Ivanti
3 1 (6.25%) Foundry