MSI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 448 602
Rank change year-on-year +118 +154 -136
Contract jobs citing MSI 11 19 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.076% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.50% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 9
10th Percentile £364 £393 -
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £425 £500 £538
90th Percentile £551 £600 -
UK median daily rate £390 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -22.00% +25.00% +10.34%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,784 3,827 8,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 15.23% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 2,743 5,934
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MSI trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSI.

MSI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MSI over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

MSI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSI.

MSI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
1 5 (45.45%) WiX
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Italian Language
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Applications Packager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
3 1 (9.09%) MSI Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
1 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (45.45%) Entity Framework
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) LINQ
1 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) XML
1 5 (45.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Client/Server
1 5 (45.45%) Web 2.0
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Application Packaging
1 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
1 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
1 5 (45.45%) OO
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Application Discovery
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) RBAC
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Smoke Testing
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) CA