MSI Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MSI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 - 261
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing MSI 5 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.059% - 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.33% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50,800
25th Percentile £67,500 - £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £54,000
75th Percentile £77,500 - £56,000
90th Percentile - - £57,200
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year -9.68% +37.77% +3.21%

All Development Application Skills
South West

MSI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 375 287 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.45% 8.52% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 262 180 664
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,300 £32,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £91,503 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MSI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

MSI job vacancy trend in the South West

MSI
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MSI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MSI

MSI
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset - 5 £70,000 - 2
MSI
England

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) ATL
1 5 (100.00%) COM
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) MFC
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Design
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 5 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SOLID
1 5 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bicep
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (100.00%) NCSC
1 5 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft