The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 19 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 188 184 149
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -35
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 1515 1681 2071
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.488% 1.483% 1.705%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.424% 5.396% 6.552%
Number of salaries quoted 1314 1489 1771
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £26,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27929 31153 31609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.43% 27.49% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 22863 26848 26740
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSE
UK

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

England MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England MCSE Salary Histogram

MCSE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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
London -12 568 £44,500 +4.70% 62
South East -4 451 £37,500 -6.25% 62
East of England +35 125 £35,000 - 12
West Midlands -13 109 £37,000 +4.22% 13
Yorkshire +17 86 £30,250 -7.63% 9
South West +23 75 £40,000 +14.28% 15
East Midlands +21 68 £35,000 +2.94% 5
North West -32 58 £31,500 -21.25% 10
North East -4 6 £21,500 -40.27% 2
Midlands -15 3 £50,000 +11.11%
MCSE
UK

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 2956 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2302 (77.88%) Windows
3 1921 (64.99%) Microsoft
4 1482 (50.14%) Active Directory
5 1468 (49.66%) VMware
6 1231 (41.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 1092 (36.94%) MS Exchange
8 1053 (35.62%) MCITP
9 1015 (34.34%) MS Excel
10 1011 (34.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 971 (32.85%) VMware Infrastructure
12 906 (30.65%) Cisco
13 869 (29.40%) Cisco Certification
14 854 (28.89%) ITIL
15 845 (28.59%) Citrix
16 816 (27.60%) MCP
17 789 (26.69%) CCNA
18 787 (26.62%) MCSA
19 735 (24.86%) TCP/IP
20 668 (22.60%) Firewall
21 664 (22.46%) SAN
22 636 (21.52%) DNS
23 605 (20.47%) SQL
24 593 (20.06%) Exchange Server 2010
25 584 (19.76%) SQL Server
26 516 (17.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
27 471 (15.93%) Linux
28 461 (15.60%) HP
29 428 (14.48%) DHCP
30 424 (14.34%) LAN

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 82 (2.774%) .NET
2 44 (1.488%) XML
3 39 (1.319%) HTML
4 34 (1.150%) Web Services
5 31 (1.049%) WebSphere
6 29 (0.981%) Application Packaging
6 29 (0.981%) Middleware
7 28 (0.947%) ASP.NET
8 24 (0.812%) .NET Framework
9 16 (0.541%) COM
9 16 (0.541%) LAMP
10 15 (0.507%) WCF
10 15 (0.507%) MSMQ
11 14 (0.474%) J2EE
12 11 (0.372%) Ajax
12 11 (0.372%) WebSphere MQ
13 10 (0.338%) COM+
14 9 (0.304%) DCOM
14 9 (0.304%) ODBC
15 7 (0.237%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1092 (36.94%) MS Exchange
2 593 (20.06%) Exchange Server 2010
3 384 (12.99%) Exchange Server 2007
4 351 (11.87%) SharePoint
5 298 (10.08%) IIS
6 286 (9.675%) Exchange Server 2003
7 214 (7.240%) Lync
8 136 (4.601%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 121 (4.093%) Office Communications Server
10 83 (2.808%) SharePoint 2010
11 52 (1.759%) IBM Notes
12 50 (1.691%) Apache
13 39 (1.319%) SharePoint Server
14 35 (1.184%) Exchange Server 2013
15 31 (1.049%) BizTalk Server
16 29 (0.981%) Tomcat
17 23 (0.778%) Exchange Server 2000
17 23 (0.778%) Lotus Domino
18 14 (0.474%) Windows Azure
19 11 (0.372%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1015 (34.34%) MS Excel
2 419 (14.17%) MS Office
3 68 (2.300%) Office 365
4 29 (0.981%) MS PowerPoint
5 28 (0.947%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.575%) MS Project
7 2 (0.068%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.068%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.034%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 31 (1.049%) SAP Business One
2 25 (0.846%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.304%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.237%) Dynamics GP
5 6 (0.203%) Changepoint
6 5 (0.169%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.101%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.101%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.068%) Pegasus Opera
8 2 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.034%) Eikon
9 1 (0.034%) TIBCO iProcess
9 1 (0.034%) Sage BI
9 1 (0.034%) 3000 Xtra
9 1 (0.034%) Bond Adapt
9 1 (0.034%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.034%) Maximo
9 1 (0.034%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 735 (24.86%) TCP/IP
2 668 (22.60%) Firewall
3 664 (22.46%) SAN
4 636 (21.52%) DNS
5 428 (14.48%) DHCP
6 424 (14.34%) LAN
7 386 (13.06%) WAN
8 300 (10.15%) VoIP
9 283 (9.574%) VPN
10 163 (5.514%) Internet
11 130 (4.398%) NAS
12 113 (3.823%) Unified Communications
13 104 (3.518%) MPLS
14 101 (3.417%) Network Security
15 100 (3.383%) Wireless
16 92 (3.112%) Cisco ASA
17 87 (2.943%) SMTP
18 86 (2.909%) HTTP
19 79 (2.673%) VLAN
20 74 (2.503%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (19.76%) SQL Server
2 211 (7.138%) SQL Server 2008
3 167 (5.650%) SQL Server 2005
4 60 (2.030%) RDBMS
5 48 (1.624%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (1.590%) MySQL
7 46 (1.556%) SQL Server 2000
8 33 (1.116%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 32 (1.083%) Oracle 8/8i
10 19 (0.643%) SQL Server 2012
11 17 (0.575%) Oracle 11g
12 16 (0.541%) Oracle 10g
13 14 (0.474%) Ingres
13 14 (0.474%) Oracle Discoverer
13 14 (0.474%) dBASE
13 14 (0.474%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.338%) Big Data
15 6 (0.203%) MS Access
16 4 (0.135%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.101%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 19 (0.643%) MSI
2 16 (0.541%) Git (software)
3 13 (0.440%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (0.372%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.237%) Selenium
5 7 (0.237%) WebLOAD
6 6 (0.203%) PHPUnit
7 5 (0.169%) Subversion
7 5 (0.169%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.068%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.068%) JIRA
9 1 (0.034%) WatiN
9 1 (0.034%) NUnit
General
1 344 (11.64%) Finance
2 176 (5.954%) Telecoms
3 98 (3.315%) Retail
4 90 (3.045%) Back Office
5 78 (2.639%) Law
6 76 (2.571%) French Language
7 64 (2.165%) Banking
8 59 (1.996%) Legal
9 53 (1.793%) Advertising
10 41 (1.387%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.252%) German Language
12 31 (1.049%) Italian Language
13 29 (0.981%) Marketing
14 18 (0.609%) Front Office
15 14 (0.474%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.338%) Games
16 10 (0.338%) Automotive
17 9 (0.304%) Electronics
17 9 (0.304%) Publishing
18 7 (0.237%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 445 (15.05%) Analyst
2 436 (14.75%) Support Engineer
3 331 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 298 (10.08%) Consultant
5 231 (7.815%) Support Analyst
6 195 (6.597%) 3rd Line Support
7 191 (6.461%) Administrator
8 181 (6.123%) Systems Engineer
9 162 (5.480%) IT Support
10 152 (5.142%) 2nd Line Support
11 142 (4.804%) Architect
12 141 (4.770%) Systems Administrator
13 128 (4.330%) Technical Support
14 115 (3.890%) Desktop Support
15 104 (3.518%) Server Engineer
16 97 (3.281%) Technical Engineer
17 88 (2.977%) Network Engineer
18 87 (2.943%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 85 (2.876%) Infrastructure Analyst
20 79 (2.673%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 279 (9.438%) Blackberry
2 177 (5.988%) Clustering
3 107 (3.620%) Management Information System
4 90 (3.045%) Computer Science
5 58 (1.962%) Client/Server
5 58 (1.962%) Video Conferencing
6 54 (1.827%) Replication
7 43 (1.455%) Cloud Computing
8 42 (1.421%) SaaS
8 42 (1.421%) Handset
9 37 (1.252%) iPhone
10 33 (1.116%) Thin Client
10 33 (1.116%) Fat Client
11 25 (0.846%) Statistics
12 23 (0.778%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (0.744%) Firmware
14 21 (0.710%) N-Tier
15 16 (0.541%) CESG
16 14 (0.474%) PDA
16 14 (0.474%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2302 (77.88%) Windows
2 1231 (41.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 1011 (34.20%) Windows Server 2003
4 471 (15.93%) Linux
5 403 (13.63%) Windows 7
6 381 (12.89%) Windows XP
7 272 (9.202%) UNIX
8 191 (6.461%) Windows Vista
9 127 (4.296%) Windows Server 2012
10 118 (3.992%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 100 (3.383%) Solaris
12 77 (2.605%) Windows 2000
13 60 (2.030%) Windows 8
14 58 (1.962%) Windows 2000 Server
15 31 (1.049%) OpenVMS
16 28 (0.947%) SUSE
17 27 (0.913%) CentOS
18 23 (0.778%) Android
18 23 (0.778%) AIX
19 21 (0.710%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (28.89%) ITIL
2 181 (6.123%) Service Delivery
3 177 (5.988%) Disaster Recovery
4 172 (5.819%) Project Management
5 143 (4.838%) Service Management
6 138 (4.668%) Migration
7 133 (4.499%) PRINCE2
8 101 (3.417%) Change Management
9 90 (3.045%) Incident Management
10 89 (3.011%) Problem Management
11 73 (2.470%) CRM
12 71 (2.402%) Security Management
13 65 (2.199%) Configuration Management
13 65 (2.199%) Release Management
14 61 (2.064%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (1.996%) Change Control
16 55 (1.861%) Business Continuity
17 54 (1.827%) TOGAF
18 53 (1.793%) Data Protection
19 52 (1.759%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 605 (20.47%) SQL
2 148 (5.007%) PowerShell
3 85 (2.876%) C
4 69 (2.334%) VBScript
5 45 (1.522%) T-SQL
6 40 (1.353%) PHP
7 38 (1.286%) Perl
8 37 (1.252%) VB
9 35 (1.184%) Java
10 31 (1.049%) Python
11 24 (0.812%) C#
12 19 (0.643%) Bash shell
12 19 (0.643%) JavaScript
13 17 (0.575%) VBA
14 10 (0.338%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.338%) Ruby
15 9 (0.304%) C++
16 3 (0.101%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.101%) FoxPro (VFP)
17 2 (0.068%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2956 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1053 (35.62%) MCITP
3 869 (29.40%) Cisco Certification
4 816 (27.60%) MCP
5 789 (26.69%) CCNA
6 787 (26.62%) MCSA
7 516 (17.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 417 (14.11%) Degree
9 260 (8.796%) MCTS
10 259 (8.762%) Citrix Certification
11 229 (7.747%) CCNP
12 203 (6.867%) CCA
13 167 (5.650%) Security Cleared
14 133 (4.499%) SC Cleared
15 129 (4.364%) MCDST
16 108 (3.654%) ITIL Certification
17 63 (2.131%) HND
18 57 (1.928%) CCEE
19 49 (1.658%) CISSP
20 48 (1.624%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (8.187%) SLA
2 70 (2.368%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (1.861%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 46 (1.556%) QA
5 26 (0.880%) PCI DSS
6 21 (0.710%) ISO 9000
6 21 (0.710%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.203%) BS7799
8 4 (0.135%) BS25999
9 2 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 17799
10 1 (0.034%) Section 508
10 1 (0.034%) HL7
10 1 (0.034%) DICOM
10 1 (0.034%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1482 (50.14%) Active Directory
2 971 (32.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 397 (13.43%) Hyper-V
4 328 (11.10%) vSphere
5 319 (10.79%) XenApp
6 165 (5.582%) VMware ESX
7 152 (5.142%) XenDesktop
8 117 (3.958%) XenServer
9 109 (3.687%) Microsoft App-V
10 99 (3.349%) Terminal Services
11 87 (2.943%) VMware ESXi
12 69 (2.334%) Forefront TMG
13 66 (2.233%) ISA Server
14 49 (1.658%) VMware Server
15 47 (1.590%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 42 (1.421%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 42 (1.421%) NFS
17 31 (1.049%) Xen
17 31 (1.049%) UAG
18 27 (0.913%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 312 (10.55%) SCCM
2 219 (7.409%) Backup Exec
3 217 (7.341%) SCOM
4 133 (4.499%) WSUS
5 106 (3.586%) Norton AntiVirus
6 73 (2.470%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 67 (2.267%) Tivoli
8 57 (1.928%) SCVMM
9 41 (1.387%) NetBackup
10 37 (1.252%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 34 (1.150%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
12 27 (0.913%) ARCserve
13 26 (0.880%) WMI
14 25 (0.846%) Nagios
15 24 (0.812%) McAfee ePO
15 24 (0.812%) Puppet
16 23 (0.778%) MOM
17 21 (0.710%) OpenView Configuration Management
17 21 (0.710%) Splunk
18 13 (0.440%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 1921 (64.99%) Microsoft
2 1468 (49.66%) VMware
3 906 (30.65%) Cisco
4 845 (28.59%) Citrix
5 461 (15.60%) HP
6 258 (8.728%) Symantec
7 204 (6.901%) NetApp
8 166 (5.616%) Oracle
9 162 (5.480%) IBM
10 158 (5.345%) Dell
11 130 (4.398%) McAfee
12 116 (3.924%) Avaya
13 115 (3.890%) Juniper
14 113 (3.823%) EMC
14 113 (3.823%) CheckPoint
15 104 (3.518%) Red Hat
16 86 (2.909%) Veritas
17 81 (2.740%) Sophos
18 61 (2.064%) AppSense
18 61 (2.064%) Apple
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Salary: tbc
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Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum
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Salary: From £31,631 to £36,023 per annum
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Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum
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Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus +bens
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Senitor Associates
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + training + certifications
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Salary: £25000 - £37000 per annum + EX BENS
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Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Great Benefits
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Posted: 13 June 2013
South West London
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Salary: £27,000 per annum plus bonus, on-call and great benefits
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Salary: £16000 - £18000 per annum + Training & Certification
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Salary: £20000.00 - £34000.00 per annum + Plus Package
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Car + Benefits
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + 20% bonus + bens
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Surrey, South East
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Salary: £40000 per annum
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Salary: £25000.00 - £28000.00 per annum + Bens
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Training & Benefits.
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