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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 788 634 759
Rank change year-on-year -154 +125 -16
Permanent jobs citing MSI 13 29 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.059% 0.044%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.29% 0.77% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 29
10th Percentile £60,000 £72,000 £55,250
25th Percentile £61,875 £74,375 £56,252
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +28.44%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £77,500 - £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year -9.68% +37.77% +3.21%

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 4,485 3,752 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 7.59% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 2,232 3,922
10th Percentile £36,825 £36,825 £38,525
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,900 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,643 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.51% +2.99% -5.98%

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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 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
England -105 10 £70,000 -9.68% 26
UK excluding London -128 9 £70,000 -9.68% 12
South West - 7 £70,000 - 1
Work from Home -39 2 - - 13
South East -63 2 - - 6
London -53 1 - - 17

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
1 9 (69.23%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (15.38%) Datadog
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) .NET Core
2 7 (53.85%) .NET Framework
2 7 (53.85%) ATL
2 7 (53.85%) COM
2 7 (53.85%) CSS
2 7 (53.85%) CSS3
2 7 (53.85%) GeoJSON
2 7 (53.85%) HTML
2 7 (53.85%) HTML5
2 7 (53.85%) MFC
2 7 (53.85%) REST
2 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 7 (53.85%) WPF
3 2 (15.38%) ADO
3 2 (15.38%) OpenTofu
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Onboarding
2 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (23.08%) NHS
4 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
5 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) DevSecOps
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (53.85%) API Design
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) Dependency Management
2 7 (53.85%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Design Patterns
2 7 (53.85%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (53.85%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) SOLID
2 7 (53.85%) Static Application Security Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 7 (53.85%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (38.46%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bicep
2 7 (53.85%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Accessibility
1 7 (53.85%) NCSC
1 7 (53.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Reuters