Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MSI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MSI over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 704 1034 1031
Rank change year-on-year +330 -3 -302
Permanent jobs citing MSI 37 42 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.034% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.54% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 37 31 60
10th Percentile - £34,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -26.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £55,250 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £58,750 £90,000 £76,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £52,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% +54.41% -29.90%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,903 22,328 26,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 18.01% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 12,623 16,358
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,581 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% +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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for MSI in the UK

MSI
Top 7 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 4 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +258 36 £54,500 +3.81% 10
England +328 35 £54,500 -0.91% 10
South East +196 33 £54,500 +49.32% 7
Work from Home +236 26 £54,500 -0.91% 2
Scotland - 2 £53,745 - 3
London +249 1 £42,500 -43.33% 1
East of England +123 1 £82,500 -

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 18 (48.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.70%) PaaS
2 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) SAN
1 1 (2.70%) VLAN
1 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) AdminStudio
1 16 (43.24%) InstallShield
2 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 18 (48.65%) Organisational Skills
2 18 (48.65%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Legal
3 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Applications Packager
2 10 (27.03%) Administrator
2 10 (27.03%) SCCM Administrator
3 3 (8.11%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Applications Support
4 2 (5.41%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Desktop Support
5 1 (2.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.70%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (43.24%) Shadow IT
3 4 (10.81%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (51.35%) Windows 10
3 18 (48.65%) Windows 7
4 11 (29.73%) Linux
5 10 (27.03%) Unix
6 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
7 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Software Deployment
2 24 (64.86%) Agile
3 19 (51.35%) Customer Service
3 19 (51.35%) Project Management
3 19 (51.35%) Service Management
4 18 (48.65%) Application Packaging
4 18 (48.65%) ITIL
4 18 (48.65%) ITSM
4 18 (48.65%) Release Management
4 18 (48.65%) Waterfall
5 17 (45.95%) Migration
6 16 (43.24%) Application Virtualisation
6 16 (43.24%) Data Analysis
7 10 (27.03%) Patch Management
8 4 (10.81%) Application Security
8 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 3 (8.11%) Information Security
9 3 (8.11%) Prototyping
10 2 (5.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (94.59%) PowerShell
2 18 (48.65%) C#
2 18 (48.65%) VB
3 10 (27.03%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (86.49%) Security Cleared
2 31 (83.78%) DV Cleared
3 30 (81.08%) SC Cleared
4 20 (54.05%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) CEH
5 1 (2.70%) MCSE
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (62.16%) Active Directory
2 21 (56.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (48.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) SCCM
2 16 (43.24%) WSUS
3 7 (18.92%) WMI
4 4 (10.81%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Nessus
4 4 (10.81%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 23 (62.16%) VMware
3 18 (48.65%) Autodesk
4 16 (43.24%) ServiceNow
5 11 (29.73%) Apple
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) NetApp
6 1 (2.70%) Veeam