Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MSI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MSI over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 693 1034
Rank change year-on-year -34 +341 -21
Permanent jobs citing MSI 39 37 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.070% 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 0.54% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 37 37 30
10th Percentile £56,252 - £34,525
25th Percentile - £45,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% -0.91% -26.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £58,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,252 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.21% +3.81% +54.41%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,695 6,913 22,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 13.05% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,745 5,287 12,596
10th Percentile £37,574 £41,400 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £99,366
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,594 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +5.45% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MSI.

Salary trend for MSI in the UK

MSI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSI over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for MSI in the UK

MSI
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -53 39 £70,000 +28.44% 5
London +15 29 £72,500 +70.59% 4
Work from Home 0 19 £70,000 +28.44% 1
UK excluding London -98 10 £56,252 +3.21% 1
South East -65 9 £56,252 +3.21% 1
South West - 1 £50,000 -

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 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
1 22 (56.41%) GCP
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) Modbus
1 22 (56.41%) MQTT
2 3 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (48.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) AdminStudio
1 7 (17.95%) InstallShield
2 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (64.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Law
2 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Applications Packager
1 7 (17.95%) Lead
1 7 (17.95%) Team Leader
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared Application Packager
2 6 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.13%) IT Support
5 2 (5.13%) Support Team Leader
6 1 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (56.41%) JSON
2 19 (48.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (64.10%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.38%) Shadow IT
3 3 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Migration
2 13 (33.33%) ITIL
3 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 7 (17.95%) Application Packaging
4 7 (17.95%) Application Virtualisation
5 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 6 (15.38%) ITSM
5 6 (15.38%) Project Management
5 6 (15.38%) Release Management
5 6 (15.38%) Service Management
5 6 (15.38%) Software Deployment
5 6 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 3 (7.69%) CAD
6 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 1 (2.56%) Prototyping
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (2.56%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.56%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.38%) C#
2 6 (15.38%) VB
3 1 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 3 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft App-V
1 7 (17.95%) Virtual Desktop
1 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (17.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) SCCM
2 6 (15.38%) WSUS
3 3 (7.69%) WMI
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Google
2 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.95%) Citrix
3 7 (17.95%) VMware
4 6 (15.38%) Autodesk
4 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) Adobe