MCSA Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MCSA 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 190 212 244
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 -44
Contract jobs citing MCSA 10 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.64% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile £472 £363 £258
25th Percentile £519 - £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £480 £355
Median % change year-on-year +11.98% +35.21% +77.50%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £448
90th Percentile £568 £604 £550
England median daily rate £538 £480 £375
% change year-on-year +11.98% +28.00% +15.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,476 2,182 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.81% 37.43% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,441 1,585
10th Percentile £313 £300 £299
25th Percentile £439 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 144 85
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.30 £19.06
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.02 £69.06 £56.03
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MCSA in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the South East 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
Hampshire - 9 £538 - 1
Surrey +12 1 £375 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (90.00%) Confluence
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Integration Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Critical Thinking
1 9 (90.00%) Regression Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) MCSE
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix