MSI Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MSI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 703 673
Rank change year-on-year +67 -30 +360
Permanent jobs citing MSI 18 39 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.063% 0.073%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.51% 0.65% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17 37 37
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,252 -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +28.44% -0.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £55,250
90th Percentile - - £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £56,252 £54,500
% change year-on-year +37.77% +3.21% +3.81%

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 3,563 6,030 6,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.32% 9.71% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 3,510 5,328
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,425
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.86% +6.23%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MSI job vacancy trend in the UK

MSI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSI

MSI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MSI over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MSI in the UK

MSI
Top 5 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 7 December 2025. 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 +81 18 £77,500 +10.71% 10
UK excluding London +96 13 £77,500 +37.77% 5
South East +51 13 £77,500 +37.77% 1
London +45 5 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Work from Home +64 1 £72,500 +3.57%

MSI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Advertising
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 4 (22.22%) Prototyping
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.56%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) WMI
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Fujitsu
3 3 (16.67%) VMware