MCSA Contracts in England

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 575 625
Rank change year-on-year +119 +50 -65
Contract jobs citing MCSA 81 76 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 0.57% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 54 93
10th Percentile £105 £223 £185
25th Percentile £313 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £515 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% +28.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £556 £649 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £403
% change year-on-year -20.00% +24.22% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 26
10th Percentile £14.16 - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £15.75 £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

MCSA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,227 13,261 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.86% 27.52% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,936 8,905 10,075
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 968 682 681
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.31 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.56 £43.95
% change year-on-year -26.69% +24.14% +16.73%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in England

MCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
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 MCSA within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
East of England +45 48 £100 - 10
London +100 11 £488 -4.41% 3
South East +12 11 £538 +11.98% 4
South West +11 8 £538 -2.27% 5
North of England +8 3 £325 -50.00% 4
Yorkshire +13 2 £325 -22.16% 3
North West +1 1 £400 -38.46% 1
MCSA
UK

MCSA
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 25 (30.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (20.99%) Confluence
3 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (3.70%) AWS
4 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.47%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.23%) GCP
5 1 (1.23%) IaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (50.62%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (25.93%) DNS
3 20 (24.69%) DHCP
4 7 (8.64%) VPN
5 4 (4.94%) LAN
5 4 (4.94%) SAN
5 4 (4.94%) WAN
6 2 (2.47%) Firewall
6 2 (2.47%) NAS
6 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.23%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.23%) MPLS
7 1 (1.23%) Network Security
7 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) JIRA
General
1 28 (34.57%) Retail
2 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 22 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (20.99%) Military
5 7 (8.64%) Finance
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
6 4 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (53.09%) Analyst
2 41 (50.62%) Service Analyst
2 41 (50.62%) Service Desk Analyst
3 17 (20.99%) Test Engineer
4 16 (19.75%) Integration Engineer
4 16 (19.75%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 13 (16.05%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 8 (9.88%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Service Delivery Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (2.47%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.47%) Server Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (2.47%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) PKI
2 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.47%) iPad
3 2 (2.47%) iPhone
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Clustering
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (48.15%) Windows
2 27 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 17 (20.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.94%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.94%) Windows 7
4 4 (4.94%) Windows 8
5 2 (2.47%) Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (58.02%) ITIL
2 45 (55.56%) Customer Service
3 41 (50.62%) Incident Management
4 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.99%) Agile
5 17 (20.99%) Critical Thinking
5 17 (20.99%) Regression Testing
5 17 (20.99%) Service Delivery
5 17 (20.99%) Test Scripting
6 13 (16.05%) Mathematics
7 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 4 (4.94%) Employee Productivity
9 4 (4.94%) PRINCE2
10 3 (3.70%) High Availability
11 2 (2.47%) Business Analysis
11 2 (2.47%) Data Protection
11 2 (2.47%) Fintech
11 2 (2.47%) Server Management
11 2 (2.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (58.02%) A+ Certification
3 32 (39.51%) SC Cleared
3 32 (39.51%) Security Cleared
4 29 (35.80%) MCSE
5 17 (20.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (17.28%) CCNA
6 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (16.05%) Degree
8 8 (9.88%) MCP
9 7 (8.64%) CCNP
10 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.47%) CCENT
11 2 (2.47%) MCSD
12 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (54.32%) Active Directory
2 22 (27.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) SCCM
2 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.23%) Nessus
2 1 (1.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (60.49%) Microsoft
2 43 (53.09%) Citrix
3 41 (50.62%) ServiceNow
4 23 (28.40%) VMware
5 3 (3.70%) Cisco
5 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.47%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.47%) HP
6 2 (2.47%) Reuters
7 1 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.23%) Dell
7 1 (1.23%) IronPort
7 1 (1.23%) Okta
7 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.23%) Veeam