Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 657 813
Rank change year-on-year +89 +156 -185
Contract jobs citing MSI 30 62 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.10% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.68% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 52 14
10th Percentile £300 - £363
25th Percentile £329 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +21.21% +17.86%
75th Percentile £456 £600 £538
90th Percentile £554 £650 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +90.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MSI in the UK

MSI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MSI in the UK

MSI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MSI in the UK

MSI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MSI in the UK

MSI
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +99 28 £388 -22.50% 10
UK excluding London +27 16 £475 -5.00% 6
South East +12 14 £475 -20.83% 4
Work from Home +122 10 £400 -5.88% 4
London +107 9 £375 -21.05% 1
South West +12 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

MSI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DHCP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 5 (16.67%) WiX
2 3 (10.00%) InstallShield
3 1 (3.33%) CMake
3 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Electronics
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Architect
2 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Packager
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) IT Support
5 1 (3.33%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (3.33%) IT Technician
5 1 (3.33%) Lead
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) MSI Packager
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
5 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
1 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 5 (16.67%) JSON
1 5 (16.67%) LINQ
1 5 (16.67%) NHibernate
1 5 (16.67%) REST
1 5 (16.67%) XML
1 5 (16.67%) XSLT
2 1 (3.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 5 (16.67%) Web 2.0
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Debian
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Prototyping
3 9 (30.00%) Application Packaging
4 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 5 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 5 (16.67%) OO
4 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (10.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.67%) Application Discovery
6 2 (6.67%) ITIL
6 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.33%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (3.33%) Release Management
7 1 (3.33%) Smoke Testing
7 1 (3.33%) Software Deployment
7 1 (3.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) HNC
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) XenApp
3 1 (3.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) WMI
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Nessus
3 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (3.33%) CA
3 1 (3.33%) FireEye
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) Tanium
3 1 (3.33%) VMware