The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 74 61 60
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -1
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 5 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.729% 1.719% 0.188%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.762% 5.381% 0.806%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 1
Average salary £35,425 £27,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.20% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £29,750
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +9.24%
All Qualifications
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
181 223 124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 26.38% 31.95% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 156 178 104
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,650 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSA
East Midlands

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSA across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Leicester -19 1 £25,000 -0.99%
Hinckley - 1 £25,000 -
MCSA
East Midlands

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) MCITP
2 5 (83.33%) MCTS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) MCSE
2 5 (83.33%) MCP
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) IIS
4 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Security
5 2 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Office 365
5 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
5 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (33.33%) SCOM
5 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) Android

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (16.67%) Velocity
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (33.33%) Commerce Server
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Commerce Server 2007
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) Office 365
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Biometrics
1 2 (33.33%) Smartcard
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Android
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Security
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) MCITP
2 5 (83.33%) MCTS
2 5 (83.33%) MCSE
2 5 (83.33%) MCP
3 2 (33.33%) MCPD
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Apple
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Altiris
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec