MSI Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MSI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSI over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 549 722
Rank change year-on-year +114 +173 +16
Contract jobs citing MSI 69 37 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.094% 0.084%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.70% 0.75% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 41
10th Percentile £316 £355 £205
25th Percentile £350 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £550
90th Percentile £553 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £400 £401 £500
% change year-on-year -0.12% -19.90% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.87 £34.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £34.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.48% - -
75th Percentile £57.84 £34.75 -
90th Percentile £58.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £34.50 -
% change year-on-year +64.48% - -

All Development Application Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,050 4,953 11,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.13% 12.60% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 3,507 7,899
10th Percentile £348 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 228 268
10th Percentile £37.55 £46.09 £40.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.94 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -1.54% +5.97% +16.77%

MSI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MSI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MSI in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSI in England.

Daily rate trend for MSI in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSI in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MSI in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSI in England.

Hourly rate trend for MSI in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the England region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +54 43 £350 -12.55%
London +48 13 £463 +3.06%
South West - 7 £535 -
North of England - 5 £400 -
North West - 4 £400 -
North East - 1 £454 -
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UK

MSI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.45%) Confluence
1 1 (1.45%) IIS
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) EngageOne
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) AWS
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.25%) OneDrive
4 4 (5.80%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) DHCP
1 7 (10.14%) DNS
2 5 (7.25%) VPN
3 4 (5.80%) Modbus
3 4 (5.80%) MQTT
4 2 (2.90%) Firewall
5 1 (1.45%) FTP
5 1 (1.45%) Skype
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.45%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) InstallShield
2 5 (7.25%) AdminStudio
3 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.14%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Electronics
3 6 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.70%) Marketing
3 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.80%) Military
5 3 (4.35%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Analyst
2 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (21.74%) Administrator
4 15 (21.74%) Applications Packager
5 13 (18.84%) Senior
5 13 (18.84%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (15.94%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 9 (13.04%) Wintel Analyst
8 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Desktop Support
10 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared Application Packager
10 3 (4.35%) SCCM Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Applications Packager
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Software Packaging
2 4 (5.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (5.80%) IoT
3 2 (2.90%) PKI
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 56 (81.16%) Windows
2 24 (34.78%) Windows 10
3 14 (20.29%) VMS
4 7 (10.14%) Windows 7
5 4 (5.80%) Linux
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.45%) Android
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (56.52%) Application Packaging
2 26 (37.68%) Software Deployment
3 17 (24.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (14.49%) Problem Management
5 9 (13.04%) Change Management
5 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 8 (11.59%) ITIL
6 8 (11.59%) Release Management
7 6 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (8.70%) ITSM
7 6 (8.70%) Programme Management
7 6 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (7.25%) Batch Scripting
8 5 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (7.25%) High Availability
8 5 (7.25%) Service Management
9 4 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.80%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (5.80%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.80%) VB
3 2 (2.90%) VBScript
4 1 (1.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (42.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (34.78%) Microsoft App-V
3 23 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (28.99%) Active Directory
4 20 (28.99%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (28.99%) vSphere
4 20 (28.99%) XenApp
4 20 (28.99%) XenDesktop
5 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
6 5 (7.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (56.52%) SCCM
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.35%) WMI
4 2 (2.90%) Terraform
4 2 (2.90%) ThinApp
5 1 (1.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
1 27 (39.13%) VMware
2 25 (36.23%) Citrix
3 6 (8.70%) SAP
4 4 (5.80%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.45%) BMC
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat