The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 149 195 181
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -14
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 72 28 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.347% 0.452% 0.540%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.764% 1.412% 1.926%
Number of salaries quoted 70 27 29
Average salary £30,500 £38,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.73% -15.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £25,100 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £47,900 £40,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.68% +6.66%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1913 1983 1506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 35.80% 31.98% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1468 1679 1243
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,900
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,150 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,550 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSA
South East

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCSA across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Berkshire MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSA across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Berkshire MCSA Salary Histogram

MCSA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bracknell -1 29 £30,500 -19.73%
Reading +9 15 £40,000 +40.35% 3
Newbury - 13 £30,000 - 1
Slough +6 5 £21,500 -36.76%
Maidenhead - 4 £37,000 -
Wokingham +15 3 £27,500 - 1
MCSA
South East

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MCSA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCSA.

1 109 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 98 (89.91%) Windows
3 94 (86.24%) MCSE
4 90 (82.57%) Microsoft
5 68 (62.39%) CCNA
5 68 (62.39%) Cisco Certification
5 68 (62.39%) Cisco
6 61 (55.96%) Firewall
7 57 (52.29%) DNS
8 52 (47.71%) MCP
9 50 (45.87%) DHCP
10 47 (43.12%) TCP/IP
11 43 (39.45%) RDBMS
11 43 (39.45%) UNIX
11 43 (39.45%) MCDBA
11 43 (39.45%) Solaris
11 43 (39.45%) Linux
11 43 (39.45%) Sun
11 43 (39.45%) Security Management
12 42 (38.53%) French Language
12 42 (38.53%) Active Directory
13 31 (28.44%) VMware
14 28 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
15 27 (24.77%) Windows Server 2003
16 26 (23.85%) Degree
16 26 (23.85%) Windows Server 2008
17 25 (22.94%) German Language
17 25 (22.94%) Italian Language
18 24 (22.02%) MCITP
18 24 (22.02%) MS Excel

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MCSA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.670%) Application Packaging
2 1 (0.917%) .NET
2 1 (0.917%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (0.917%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 20 (18.35%) MS Exchange
2 13 (11.93%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (7.339%) IIS
3 8 (7.339%) SharePoint
3 8 (7.339%) Office Communications Server
4 7 (6.422%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (5.505%) Lync
5 6 (5.505%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (3.670%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (1.835%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 24 (22.02%) MS Excel
2 15 (13.76%) MS Office
3 6 (5.505%) Office 365
4 2 (1.835%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.752%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 61 (55.96%) Firewall
2 57 (52.29%) DNS
3 50 (45.87%) DHCP
4 47 (43.12%) TCP/IP
5 16 (14.68%) WAN
6 12 (11.01%) SAN
7 9 (8.257%) Internet
7 9 (8.257%) LAN
8 6 (5.505%) SMTP
9 5 (4.587%) FTP
9 5 (4.587%) SNMP
10 2 (1.835%) VoIP
11 1 (0.917%) VPN
11 1 (0.917%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.917%) VLAN
11 1 (0.917%) Network Security
11 1 (0.917%) NAS
11 1 (0.917%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.45%) RDBMS
2 9 (8.257%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.339%) Big Data
4 3 (2.752%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.752%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.917%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 42 (38.53%) French Language
2 25 (22.94%) German Language
2 25 (22.94%) Italian Language
3 5 (4.587%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (58.72%) Support Engineer
2 43 (39.45%) Technical Support
2 43 (39.45%) Technical Support Engineer
2 43 (39.45%) Technical Engineer
3 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Analyst
5 8 (7.339%) Desktop Support
5 8 (7.339%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 8 (7.339%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (6.422%) Microsoft Consultant
6 7 (6.422%) Consultant
7 6 (5.505%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.505%) Field Service Engineer
7 6 (5.505%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (5.505%) Field Engineer
7 6 (5.505%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.587%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.587%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.587%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (4.587%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Blackberry
2 11 (10.09%) SaaS
3 8 (7.339%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (7.339%) Computer Science
4 6 (5.505%) Replication
5 1 (0.917%) Clustering
5 1 (0.917%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.917%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 98 (89.91%) Windows
2 43 (39.45%) Solaris
2 43 (39.45%) Linux
2 43 (39.45%) UNIX
3 27 (24.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (23.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (6.422%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.752%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.835%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.917%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.917%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.917%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.917%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.45%) Security Management
2 7 (6.422%) ITIL
3 6 (5.505%) Identity Management
4 5 (4.587%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (4.587%) Migration
5 3 (2.752%) CRM
5 3 (2.752%) BCP
6 2 (1.835%) Problem Management
6 2 (1.835%) Data Protection
7 1 (0.917%) Data Architecture
7 1 (0.917%) Service Delivery
7 1 (0.917%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) SQL
2 5 (4.587%) T-SQL
2 5 (4.587%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 109 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 94 (86.24%) MCSE
3 68 (62.39%) CCNA
3 68 (62.39%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (47.71%) MCP
5 43 (39.45%) MCDBA
6 26 (23.85%) Degree
7 24 (22.02%) MCITP
8 18 (16.51%) MCTS
9 16 (14.68%) CCNP
10 10 (9.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (6.422%) MCDST
12 5 (4.587%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (1.835%) MCSD
13 2 (1.835%) HND
13 2 (1.835%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.835%) MOS
14 1 (0.917%) Security+ Certification
14 1 (0.917%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.505%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.835%) QA
3 1 (0.917%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (38.53%) Active Directory
2 28 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.84%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.339%) vSphere
5 7 (6.422%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (5.505%) VMware ESX
7 5 (4.587%) ISA Server
8 4 (3.670%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.835%) BlackBerry Internet Service
9 2 (1.835%) UAG
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) SCOM
2 7 (6.422%) SCCM
3 5 (4.587%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.835%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (1.835%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 90 (82.57%) Microsoft
2 68 (62.39%) Cisco
3 43 (39.45%) Sun
4 31 (28.44%) VMware
5 17 (15.60%) HP
6 7 (6.422%) IBM
7 5 (4.587%) Dell
7 5 (4.587%) Symantec
7 5 (4.587%) WatchGuard
7 5 (4.587%) Oracle
7 5 (4.587%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.835%) Remedy
8 2 (1.835%) Brocade
8 2 (1.835%) Adobe
9 1 (0.917%) Citrix
9 1 (0.917%) Siemens
9 1 (0.917%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.917%) Sophos
9 1 (0.917%) Kaspersky
9 1 (0.917%) Veeam
Reading, Berkshire
Install, configure and maintain windows server 2003/2008R2... * VM Ware -Vsphere... * VM WARE. * Active Directory. * Knowledge of SAN... * Blackberry Enterprise experience. Desirable skills * MCSE or MCSA * IT related...
Roc Search
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
1st Line Support, Support Analyst, Service Desk Analyst, Windows, MCSA, MCSE, Cloud computing, Big Data... You will have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent. A Microsoft certification...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
1st Line Support, Support Analyst, Service Desk Analyst, Windows, MCSA, MCSE, Cloud computing, Big Data 1st Line Support Analyst urgently needed by this global award winning pioneers of...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Berkshire
Service Desk Analyst, 1st Line Support, Support Analyst, Windows, MCSA, MCSE, Cloud Computing, Big Data... *Degree in Computer Science or equivalent. *Microsoft certification i.e. MCSA or MCSE...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Small Business Server 2008 and 2011. Symantec BackupExec. ADSL. Exchange 2003 and 2007/2010 (particularly 2007/2010) Management and Deployment Active Directory, IIS. Microsoft Hyper-V. TCP/IP.
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £36000 - £37000 per annum + + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013