MSI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MSI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MSI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 405 499
Rank change year-on-year +28 +94 -107
Contract jobs citing MSI 16 54 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.22% 0.032%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 1.58% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 46 3
10th Percentile £373 £400 £320
25th Percentile £406 £422 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +90.48%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £625
90th Percentile £608 £650 -
UK median daily rate £390 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -22.00% +21.21% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £17.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

MSI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,252 3,411 4,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.17% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,458 2,403 3,212
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £647
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 184 113
10th Percentile £40.00 £45.38 £37.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £52.47 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

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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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +4 14 £475 -20.83% 4
South West +2 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
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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 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Architect
1 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Prototyping
3 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) Application Security
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security
4 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (6.25%) RBAC
4 1 (6.25%) Release Management
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum
4 1 (6.25%) Software Deployment
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) HNC
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) XenApp
2 1 (6.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) WMI
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Nessus
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) CA
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) FireEye
2 1 (6.25%) Tanium
2 1 (6.25%) VMware