MCSE Contracts in England

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 525 557
Rank change year-on-year +66 +32 -51
Contract jobs citing MCSE 76 138 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 0.98% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 111 152
10th Percentile £250 £107 £159
25th Percentile £300 £223 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +8.82% +1.19%
75th Percentile £556 £586 £538
90th Percentile £599 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £350 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £14.45 - £15.31
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -20.32% -
75th Percentile £39.77 £20.00 £38.83
90th Percentile £44.95 £23.89 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.41% -20.32% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

MCSE 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 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MCSE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MCSE in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MCSE 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 MCSE within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +27 21 £538 -3.59% 9
London +82 15 £325 -31.58% 6
North of England +16 15 £400 -27.27% 7
South West +18 14 £538 +16.22% 9
North West 0 11 £300 -53.85% 3
East of England +16 6 £425 +286.36% 3
Midlands +10 5 £117 -47.53% 5
North East +22 4 £488 +343.18% 1
East Midlands +9 3 £130 -41.70% 1
West Midlands +26 2 £117 -43.27% 4
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UK

MCSE
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 28 (36.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (21.05%) Confluence
3 14 (18.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.32%) IIS
4 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) AWS
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.63%) IaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (31.58%) DNS
2 22 (28.95%) DHCP
3 13 (17.11%) SAN
3 13 (17.11%) VPN
4 8 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 7 (9.21%) NAS
6 6 (7.89%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (7.89%) Firewall
7 5 (6.58%) iSCSI
7 5 (6.58%) LAN
7 5 (6.58%) VLAN
7 5 (6.58%) WAN
8 4 (5.26%) SSL
8 4 (5.26%) VoIP
8 4 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.63%) Network Security
9 2 (2.63%) Wireless
10 1 (1.32%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.32%) Skype
10 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.63%) MySQL
2 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 43 (56.58%) Social Skills
2 32 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (19.74%) Military
4 11 (14.47%) Finance
5 8 (10.53%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.58%) Marketing
8 4 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.95%) Front Office
9 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.63%) Advertising
11 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Electronics
11 1 (1.32%) French Language
11 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.32%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Integration Engineer
1 15 (19.74%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 15 (19.74%) Test Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.89%) Server Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) IT Support
7 4 (5.26%) Service Delivery Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.95%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) LDAP
1 2 (2.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) PKI
2 9 (11.84%) Clustering
3 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.63%) iPad
5 2 (2.63%) iPhone
5 2 (2.63%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) NHS
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (80.26%) Windows
2 35 (46.05%) Windows Server
3 17 (22.37%) Windows 10
3 17 (22.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (10.53%) Linux
5 5 (6.58%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.26%) Unix
7 2 (2.63%) Android
7 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) ITIL
2 19 (25.00%) Agile
3 16 (21.05%) Critical Thinking
4 15 (19.74%) Regression Testing
4 15 (19.74%) Test Scripting
5 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.84%) Service Management
8 8 (10.53%) Customer Service
8 8 (10.53%) Project Management
9 7 (9.21%) High Availability
10 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (7.89%) PRINCE2
10 6 (7.89%) Server Management
10 6 (7.89%) Task Automation
11 4 (5.26%) Configuration Management
11 4 (5.26%) Data Encryption
11 4 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.26%) SQL
2 21 (27.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.32%) Bash
3 1 (1.32%) Bicep
3 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (38.16%) MCSA
3 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
3 24 (31.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 21 (27.63%) Degree
5 20 (26.32%) SC Cleared
6 19 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (21.05%) CCNA
8 8 (10.53%) MCP
9 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
10 5 (6.58%) A+ Certification
10 5 (6.58%) CCNP
10 5 (6.58%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (5.26%) MCTS
12 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (2.63%) MOS
13 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) SLA
2 3 (3.95%) NCSC
2 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 28 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.21%) vSphere
4 4 (5.26%) Firmware
5 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.63%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.32%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) SCCM
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.26%) WSUS
4 2 (2.63%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.63%) SCOM
4 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 58 (76.32%) Microsoft
2 35 (46.05%) VMware
3 11 (14.47%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.21%) Cisco
5 5 (6.58%) Bloomberg
5 5 (6.58%) Dell
6 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.95%) Apple
7 3 (3.95%) HP
7 3 (3.95%) Refinitiv
7 3 (3.95%) Veeam
8 2 (2.63%) CA
8 2 (2.63%) Citrix
8 2 (2.63%) Reuters
8 2 (2.63%) Sophos
9 1 (1.32%) Adobe
9 1 (1.32%) BEA
9 1 (1.32%) Juniper
9 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.32%) SAP