MCSA Jobs in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 261 293
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 -31
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 8 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.087% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile - £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% -3.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £45,313 £53,750 £46,875
90th Percentile £47,000 £57,125 £67,875
England median annual salary £43,114 £43,125 £42,500
% change year-on-year -0.03% +1.47% +8.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,294 2,833 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.96% 41.02% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 1,264 1,601
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £39,759 £37,926 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £54,995 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.50% +5.81% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the South West.

Salary trend for MCSA in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 5 £32,500 -
Gloucestershire -19 3 £33,000 -49.23% 1
MCSA
England

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (50.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) Support Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 8
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (12.50%) Fintech
2 1 (12.50%) Kanban
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (87.50%) MCSE
3 4 (50.00%) MCP
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) MCDST
5 2 (25.00%) MCITP
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (12.50%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle